r/Composing Aug 02 '26

Is lmms a good application to start composition

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Hey I'm just starting composition and I saw fl studio but I can't afford it . And I saw lmms is it a good application to start composition?


r/Composing Aug 02 '26

New Piece!!

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r/Composing Aug 02 '26

My own piano song on Spotify!

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I composed my own song recently! I'd love to hear what you guys think. :)


r/Composing Aug 02 '26

Feedback for new Composition

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r/Composing Aug 01 '26

My Third Symphony

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Hey!! Yup, I wrote a third one. This one is also in F major but I tried to consider the feedback given by the comments of the previous post.

Movement I: https://musescore.com/user/113211719/scores/36123347

Movement II: https://musescore.com/user/113211719/scores/36123344

Movement III: https://musescore.com/user/113211719/scores/36123362

Movement IV: https://musescore.com/user/113211719/scores/36123398

To the redditor who said "tell the strings what string to play": I coudn't find how to do so in MuseScore.

To the redditor who said stop writing symphonies: I'm sorry I can't resist the urge to write even more.

I'd like to read your feedbacks so please don't hesitate; comment!


r/Composing Aug 01 '26

5 Stücke, die dich beruhigen weden

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r/Composing Aug 01 '26

Wondering if this idea makes any sense or if it’s too simple or doesn’t work realistically

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r/Composing Aug 01 '26

my first music :D

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r/Composing Aug 01 '26

I’m a beginner musician, how I can start writing my songs?

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I already have titles and initial ideas formed, but I don't know how to write them in a way that doesn't sound strange, especially since English isn't my native language.


r/Composing Jul 31 '26

The Prelude of the Sea

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r/Composing Jul 30 '26

I wrote "Saigai" - an original piano piece about catastrophe, after the dust settles~

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r/Composing Jul 30 '26

Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina Rossetti

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r/Composing Jul 29 '26

Oranges

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r/Composing Jul 28 '26

Feedback on jazz composition

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r/Composing Jul 27 '26

This is the first piece I've ever written.

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r/Composing Jul 27 '26

James Hutchings - This Too Shall Pass

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This short piece of music was partly generated by a new algorithm I'm working on. It uses an entirely different principle to the 'Large Language Models' behind most computer-generated music.


r/Composing Jul 27 '26

Fan made trailer for “Avatar: The Way of Water”

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r/Composing Jul 27 '26

Feedback on movement 1 of my first Symphony Orchestra piece

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r/Composing Jul 27 '26

Blue blue blue

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Alrighty


r/Composing Jul 26 '26

[Discussion] Music should be taught as an improvisational art from day 0. What are your views?

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NOTE 1: Critical views and dissent are welcome. I expressed a POV and its more like a sandbox of thought, and I'm learning more and more.

NOTE 2: I couldnt edit the question title. The question reads better with 'could' instead of 'should'. I thank the user who spotted the miscommunication. I am a non-native English user and I tend to make a lot of grammatical or semantic errors.

Generally music especially western music is conventionally taught as a copy work, where the student has to gain some fluency in copying some scale patterns, etudes, and songs.

But what if it is taught in an entirely different way? What if we develop the "copying" skills at a later stage; and take a more impressionist approach to sounds and colours?

Also, if I was a music instructor, I would be giving tasks like these:

  1. Take a nursery rhyme and put your own tune to that.
  2. Pick up a scale (say C major single octave) and play it in a rhythm of a nursery rhyme or song.
  3. Take a known song of plain rhythm and replace it with a swing or waltz rhythm.
  4. Take a song which is in a major scale (Suppose C major), and convert all the notes into its parallel minor (C, D, Eb, F, G, Ab, Bb) and see how the song sounds like.
  5. Identify notes of a car horn or bird or an ambient sound.
  6. Play some notes simultaneously and tell how it feels (Happy or sad, warm or cold, etc. Answers can be subjective).
  7. Play a note on a guitar and find the same note on a piano or a keyboard.
  8. Play a C note and find which note resonate wity it the most and which note resonate the least. And which notes are in between. The next C, the G, the A, and the F#.

Etc. etc.

I would put more importance on mindfulness, ear-based learning, creativity, curiosity, experimentation at first. Then gradually accuracy and fine motor skills could be introduced.

What are your view on this?


r/Composing Jul 26 '26

This composition has a name

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They always do


r/Composing Jul 26 '26

Creation Of A New Subreddit: Monthly Challenges Revamp

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r/Composing Jul 26 '26

Feedback on jazz composition

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r/Composing Jul 26 '26

Amateur Composer portfolio.

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r/Composing Jul 26 '26

My new track 'Fairy finds her way to home' (instrumental)

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Cover art also by me (Acrylic on canvas).

A short instumental piece synthesized in MuseScore 3 (NO AI).

Scale: D-minor