Composing stuff too difficult to play
I'm not sure if .org is the right place to ask something like this, but from my experience more people seem to be active and actually reply here compared to the .com groups that I'm a part of. If you have any suggestions for good groups, please recommend me some!
Anyway, I tried playing the piano part of my piano trio and I realized that a lot of the passages were difficult to play. I fear that some passages might be impossible, but maybe I just need to sit down and spend an awful amount of time practicing them to play properly, which I hope is the case. If you've had something similar happen while you're composing, did you rewrite the difficult passages, or just stick with them and hope that whoever is gonna play it could manage?
Thanks a lot.
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Without your work, how answer possible ??
In reply to Without your work, how… by Raymond Wicquart
I've posted it several times already on .org. I though it would be pretentious to post it again, but here it is.
https://musescore.com/user/31336837/scores/5694628
In reply to I've posted it several times… by Brian Berino
It's beautiful, but sure, very difficult to play . All the passages with sixteen notes . I think, all these passages are too....rich, they are behind the solist, it's too rich, I think eight notes will be "suffisant" , idem when violin and cello , play them behind the piano solo. It's only what I feel.
In reply to It's beautiful, but sure,… by Raymond Wicquart
Okay, I'll take note of that. I'll try to cut down on the sixteenth notes if I can.
In reply to Okay, I'll take note of that… by Brian Berino
Play only the right hand, because both hangs are the same (unison).
Use some Bass at Left Hand.
In reply to Without your work, how… by Raymond Wicquart
It's a general question. Do you write music and then discover it's really difficult to play? If this happens to you, do you rewrite the passage to make it easier or do you keep it in and hope people will be able to play it.
Since I've only had one piece played, and the musician said it was playable I've never experienced this myself.
In reply to It's a general question. Do… by mike320
Welp, I haven't had any of my pieces played as well. Probably because they're all incomplete. haha
In reply to Welp, I haven't had any of… by Brian Berino
The piece I had played, was posted on the .com site while I was working on it and a double bass player found it and started giving me feedback as I was developing it. I didn't actually hear it played. I have far more unfinished pieces that finished pieces so I can relate.
In reply to The piece I had played, was… by mike320
I hope you do get more of your music performed. I'd like to hear your stuff.
I am an organist, and I write different kinds of music, but never write organ music too difficult for me to play, but there is a temptation to do so. While I can't play the finale from Marcel Dupré's Ave Maris Stella, I wish I could, but would be unsure if I tried to write music that required that kind of technique. When writing for other instruments, I am careful to stay in range, not require 3 hands, etc. esp in continuo right-hands. In my very limited use of violin double-stops, I have made errors. I cannot at all write cello double-stops with sureness. It is amazing how much Bach knew of celli, "not his primary instruments". But MuseScore offers an opportunity to write music for which I lack instruments or instrumentalists (or choristers), but I try to use my knowledge of various instruments to keep what I write playable. Your mileage may vary.
In reply to I am an organist, and I… by [DELETED] 1831606
Thanks for the insight. I should probably talk to any violinists and cellists around here.
In reply to Thanks for the insight. I… by Brian Berino
Violins and celli can play almost any single-line music within their range, although repeated fast, wild and broad jumps might be challenging. But any kind of polyphony or multiple stops requires the kind of knowledge only a skilled player or other expert has (although, of course, there are easy provable "impossibles", e.g., two simultaneous notes on the lowest string).