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lol! It's an awesome chord, and a great way to transition from one key to another. I was trying to figure out what made this Bach ending so interesting, and after I mapped out the chord degrees, it then hit me. Those evil sus4 chords, especially when modulating to A minor.

There's just a lot of "soul" in these concertos. Most people don't realize how beautiful these are because of how long they are. But I've listened to both concertos extensively, and I know the parts that warrant a good listen, such as the excerpt in this short!

What piece is this

Chopin's Piano Concerto #2

Yeah this composer shouldn't be overlooked. I learned a lot from this fugue just by creating this video and analysis. It also inspired me to create my very first fugue :-)

@@musicjotter awesome! Ive listen to Scriabin for years and I always come back to him. Such a mysterious individual who is sadly often overlooked in the realm of “classical” music.

Thanks! The tuplet was one of the first things I made sure Music Jotter was good at handling.

It's a tough concept to learn as a new pianist. If you take the spacing "too literally", this piece is impossible to play.

@@musicjotterYes, beating 3 over 4 out is easy，but it is hard to do at such tempo, since I feel locked in triplets instead of 4.

Try doing 18:4 lol. Chopin was a crazy man, and I am going to be demonstrating these tuplets in my next video. Thanks to Chopin though, this shaped the way for Music Jotter's tuplet entry system, which accurately plays any tuplet against any beat structure with the correct polyrhythms. I know this is not something most composers will use, but I use it, and I use it for my TH-cam videos, educational purposes, recreations of music, and even my own compositions!

@@musicjotter That is very great! Love your videos. I am a composer/pianist.

Thank you so much. These videos are so hard to make lol, but I am getting a little more efficient at this. As a pianist, hopefully you will enjoy my next one. It will be about the Fantaisie Impromptu, but it's not going to be a typical analysis. It will be more of a "show and tell" around how we can get playback of sheet music, to "sound" somewhat like a performance. And hopefully I can get your opinion on what you think about playback!

That's perfectly fine. This video is my first attempt at an unofficial guide or user manual to this unfinished software. Once Music Jotter is complete, I am going to create a more polished video user guide. Also, it will be fully scripted so I don't go out of order, or miss anything important.

lol!

Completely agree. I love his fugues and I'm debating on whether or not I should debut one of my favorite Bach fugues.

That means a lot to me, thank you. I planned for the video to be just 5 minutes lol. I didn't realize there was so much to this program. But going back to learning....everyone learns at their own pace. Because of my own personal learning style (I'm a kinethetic learner, which means I really can only learn by "doing"), this is a big reason why I am creating Music Jotter. I can compose music, but I have to constantly iterate and hear what I am composing during the process. No program does this effectively, until now!

Will be sharing with my fellow music students

Thank you so much!

Sure is! This will be a "use with caution" experimental feature, however I plan on storing all keystroke data on the server. This means, each file will be like a "wiki". So if things really screw up, you could just rollback to an earlier time with a Ctrl or Cmd Z. With Finale or other programs (if they are as powerful as Finale), you'd have to pick each measure, know what key you are in, and keep changing the key signature to the specified key. Then choose something like "hold notes to same staff lines". But with Music Jotter, we are completely ignoring the key signature. Let's say the key signature is in F minor. And, I compose measure 1 in Cmaj, then measure 2 in Fmaj and measure 3 in Amaj. No matter what key we are in, Music Jotter would convert each of those measures to Cmin, Fmin and Amin respectively. The trick is, we need the correct "spelling" of the notes for this to work 100% with accuracy.

lol, and I'll do more of these. The major to minor conversion feature is really fun to use. I'll probably create a longer video explaining how this works, in more detail.

Your welcome. You just reminded me that this old video has a grace note tutorial as an "aside". The content strategy by me was obviously not the best, so I might have to recreate a dedicated grace note tutorial for higher visibility.

Thanks! I can't wait until we are ready to notate a full Ballade. But we aren't there quite yet. I still need trills, octave lines (octava), mordents, and something that is a little more complex, which is "cross staff beaming".

@@musicjotter oh yes cross staff beaming. I had to look it up, but instantly reminds of a Haydn piano sonata in 6/8 time I did the notation for. I know I asked a long time ago I'm pretty sure, but where can I download your software? I would like to look back at some of my scores and send you a few of the ones I made. I'll make some new ones also while I test your software I can just Google music jotter? I seem to compose better with notation software. Musescore 3 was ok but could of been better as far as making corrections sounded like snes kinda from what I remember. Musescore 4 gave me nightmares kept corrupting my files very often and saying it was missing a random amount of beats in each measure. I would probably never of stopped if there was no issues.

I forgot to add I really like Chopin. I forgot to mention the timing is amazing on that sounds like that is how Chopin would have intended it exactly. I might make a second channel that is classical recordings and notation compositions. This is inspiring me to compose more again and notate different composers. I like playing with the instrument selection making the song for guitar instead of piano, or composing my own stuff with orchestral instruments.

I'm selling subscriptions to "early access" users, but the software is still being developed. I will be opening a new tier for "challengers" soon (for those who want to take part of my challenges using Music Jotter). If you want to test the software, you can head over to www.musicjotter.com/mj/

Also " Musescore 4 gave me nightmares kept corrupting my files very often and saying it was missing a random amount of beats in each measure." This is what I have to really focus on too. And this is a huge reason why I am advertising Music Jotter as "early access" still. I have to stress test the system for corruption issues. But I can't stress test until the software is nearly 100% complete. We are approximately 80 to 85% complete.

Yes, I'm going to add a way to "hide" markings. There will be 2 methods of hiding. One is "hide but gray out" so that you can still see the markings, but they will be hidden when you print to pdf. But another version is to "hide hidden symbols" which will hide the markings while you are composing (as to not distract). But adding tempo markings is extremely efficient, and I essentially added the tempo markings from my memory of how these pieces should be performed in "rubato". You never want to rush a Chopin arpeggio or tuplet! They are way too poetic, and every note must be heard with clarity.

Glad you enjoyed the fugue. Staccato is also a great way to change things up without really doing much. It can potentially help you with writer's block. Darn, should have mentioned that in the video, lol.

Sure is. This is called an articulation. Probably one of the most powerful articulations in music. Legato and accents are nice too, and have their use cases. But I haven't coded them in yet so I can't go over it just yet!

Thank you for your feedback. I'm hoping my next fugue is a little better. Definitely keep an eye out for my next video, it's almost done actually. As for the program, I'm really trying my best to finish a lot of it this year (2024). The program at this state is unstable, which is why I am not aggressively pushing sales yet, but, the option is there if you'd still like to support early on. Thanks again!

lol, honestly this was just going to be a quick screencast demonstrating staccato. But then I discovered CapCut's AI voices, so I figured I'd just add a voiceover with AI. But then I had second thoughts about the AI voice. So I ended up making a skit after all, just to test the waters with AI on this channel. It might go horribly wrong.

Thank you for giving this a listen. I've had to force myself to get into counterpoint for the sake of testing voice writing with Music Jotter (my expertise is with melody, and Romantic writing). Luckily, even if I am not great with Baroque style writing, I enjoy it and want to improve. My next fugue will demonstrate "staccato" using 3 voices, and I'm debating if I should play both versions again. The piano will pick up staccato much more accurately than the organ, but the organ, as you stated just sounds a lot better with fugues. I will say that Music Jotter has helped me get back into the "art of music composition" very quickly, after a long hiatus. It's quite literally bringing back my "love of composition" that other software has not been able to do at all (since the departure of Personal Composer).

I can tell this is one of his more challenging symphonies to perform. It also was not easy to sync!

@@musicjotter my bad, it’s a more difficult 9/8 time signature LoL!

@@henryng0725 Oh, right! lol. Rhythms with dotted notes, or ties, or lots of syncopation without any clear "lining up of the beats" make counting hard in general! For example, in this waltz by Tchaikovsky, there are not always "supporting beats" to account for the tricky rhythm (this happens when all the notes are being played together). And it makes it critical for the conductor and performers to count correctly, rather than to rely on the music as a reference point.

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Yeah you are right! It could use more rhythmic variation. If I do another fugue, I will try to spice it up a little. Appreciate the feedback! And it doesn't matter if you are an expert or noob. Sometimes beginners are the best critics.

@@musicjotter humble thanks

Don't let my experience discourage you. The first 5 or so years, I didn't understand TH-cam, and uploaded the wrong types of videos each month. I never actually wanted to be a TH-camr, so that also played a role in the channel's lack of results. But once I started to look into TH-cam more carefully, I realized I had to start this channel over...and be in my videos. I actually realized this after 2 live streams.

@@musicjotter I really appreciate the reply. I enjoy youtube and will keep posting, but I know quality content is important. My first videos were just the wrong type and I thought they was good at the time. I hope to improve and make content that people enjoy. I like watching this channel and will keep watching. Do you have a favorite composer or top 3 or top 5? I am curious to know what you think If not maybe a favorite era of music or a perfect composition?

@@MuskratMusic Some of my favorites would be Chopin, and many of the Russian Romantics (Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Medtner). But I also love Baroque music, and I can't ignore Bach. As for the perfect composition? Oh I don't know, there are many greats, but some of my favorite piano works would be by Chopin (Ballade 1, and Ballade 4 is even better). Tchaikovsky's symphonies are all good too. I posted a clip of one of my favorites as a short, his 4th (a waltz).

btw, can you not even tell the difference between the #7th of the key, and the lowered tonic? jesus christ, the Db's are burning my eyes.

The same can be said of your shitty compositions!

Thank you! I think if I end up writing another, I will try to be a little more creative with it.

No I did not play this, I composed it by hand. I'm going to be continuously working on improving the human feel. I couldn't implement too much "human playback" yet because if I overdo it, there are issues with notes cutting off, unless I sustain the notes. So this is something I will work on improving. But the Chopin examples are a different story I think, because I implemented some of my own techniques to match what a pianist might do. What are your thoughts on the Chopin Ballade and Piano Concerto excerpt?

@@musicjotter where do I find them? The Chopin Ballade and Piano Concerto excerp

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@@musicjotter It still sounds jilted and overly quantised to my ears.

You must have a super ear! I plan on notating the full Chopin Ballade as soon as Music Jotter can handle trills and cross staves. And I will try my best to make it sound like a pianist, for the video. I think the biggest problem for me personally is the velocity layers of the samples. They are too "drastic" from p to mf, and I haven't quite figured out how to handle that. Mainly because I don't have control over how the piano samples are actually sampled.

Thanks Jake, appreciate it!

Thank you.

Thank you! This may make a case where I program Music Jotter to automatically help the composer out with "enharmonic equivalents". When I am in "composition mode", I tend to forget about readability. I know, I know, bad on me. But this is definitely something to think about!

Thank you!

Yes I agree. The rhythms definitely could use improvement. I tried to cheat my way out of that by doing some tempo changes, but now that I think about it, that's not enough lol. Appreciate the feedback, and thanks for giving this a watch and listen!