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@@JohnSmith-im5gz Thank you so much. Anyway, do you have any suggestions for the next piece from this band? I don’t promise that I will have a time to make it, but I want to hear what your favorite pieces are.

Yeah, sure. I have already scheduled another upload this month. I plan to make more only for the pieces I can't find their official scores on sales. But for those with the official scores, I won't do them. Moreover, there are my compositions and other transciptions on my channel. So, if you please, listen to them as I want to know and improve my compositional skills as well as my transcription skills. :D Also... please, like and subscribe. So, you won't miss the next one that I've already planned to upload.

@@OphatTaerattanachai Liked and subscribed, thank you buddy!

@@JohnSmith-im5gz Thank you so much. :D

@@saarthakshankavaram-compos4543 I’m glad that you can remember it. I have to upload it here because there is another piece that I quote this piece. So, the listeners will know from where it comes.

Thank you so much.

I'm glad that you want to play this. It means a lot to me. But now, I don't plan to release or publish the scores of my compositions. I'm really sorry. But if you really want to play it, you can watch this video and play along with it. It may be inconvenient, but that is all I can do now. Maybe, in the future, I will find a platform to sell or release my scores. Anyway, thank you for listening to my music. Hope to see you around here again in my future pieces.

@@OphatTaerattanachai oh okeyyyy it's alright if you don't want to release it. I'm still replaying it and your other work tho :>

Thank you so much. I'm glad that you love it. :)

Thank you so much. :)

@@pietervoogt Thank you so much.

English is not my native language, so the following answers may be quite difficult to understand, or misleading. But I'm trying my best to deliver my best answer for each question. Q: Have you gone to Music school before? A: I am a self-taught composer, arranger, singer, and musician until 2014 when I got into the music conservatory for my Master's degree in music composition. I graduated in 2018. (FYI, my bachelor's degree is in law.) Q: What books do you use to study composition? A: That is quite a hard question to answer. I read a lot of books, but none was specifically about composition. Instead, I like to listen to various music and analyze them by looking at the score (if possible), trying to find out how they work, or reading articles about their concepts or techniques. As I'm a self-taught composer for more than half of my life, I like to do and try many things myself. And that also comes to my compositional approach. Moreover, music theories are, in my opinion, the best instruments to understand and dissect music in various categories. So, I always encourage music students to learn more theories, not for what they are, but for how to use them to obtain their ideas, concepts, perceptions, or techniques. And since late 2019, I have been occasionally giving lectures in music theory classes at the local university in my hometown. But they are more like a hobby as well as composing, and studying in music. That's why I'm so slow in composition. I don't have much free time. I hope that my answer can clear up your curiosity. I'm trying to keep it short. But feel free to ask if it is something that I can answer. P.S. I have another variation piece on my channel. I don't know if you have already listened to that. It is "15 Variations on the Theme of 'Toei-Khong'" for Piano. The theme is the traditional music around the region of my hometown. And each variation is after different piece from different composer in western music history. (I recommend trying to figure out the piece and the composer before reading the answer in its description.) I would like to hear your opinions about it, if you please. Thank you. :D

@@OphatTaerattanachai so youve never read about counterpoint and music theory???

@@supasayajinsongoku4464 No. I have read a lot of them. I also give a lecture on Counterpoint, Music Theory, and Musical Form and Analysis at the university. Here are some recommendations, which I always use as the reference for my lecture. - Tonal Harmony with an Introdution to Twentieth-Century Music by Stefan Kostka and Dorothy Payne - Harmony in Context by Miguel A. Roig-Francoli - Harmonic Practice in Tonal Picture by Rober Gauldin There are more of them, but these are the good starting points to get into music theory and harmony. Also, some are in Thai language that I always recommend for my students to buy and read. They are easier to understand for them because they are in my native language.

Thank you so much. I appreciate your comment because it is always constructive and helps me improve my music. This set is an adventure for me, compared to the other pieces I had composed during that period. I'm glad you also hear the relation between each piece, and how the main theme links every piece in the set together. That's what I like to do when working on a set or a suite. All in all, thanks a lot. Hope to see you around here again with my next compositions. :)

Every main theme or motif of these pieces comes to me in my sleep and forces me to wake up at night. So, I planned to write down whatever I got or heard from my dream in the papers. The next morning, I looked into them and used them to compose these pieces. So, you're right that someone would be awake if you were having dreams like these. They really wake me up.

Thanks a lot.

Thanks a lot for the recommendation. I don't know if that is okay, but I believe in your words. I'll make another video for the entire suite and get it in here later. Maybe, with the other complete sets on my channel, and for my later sets as well.

@@OphatTaerattanachai remember im just reccomending, you know better then I do

Thank you so much.

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Thank you so much.

Thank you so much. :)

Thank you so much. I’m really appreciated that. If you want to contact me, I have logged in to Discord from time to time. You can drop something over there. And I’ll leave you my private email over there, so we can get in contact again. :D

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Well, you've found it, genius. :D There are many variations of it in every piece of this set. I'm trying to be very sneaky with this secret motif, so my friends are struggling to find it out as well. (They still can't find it out yet.) Because it is so simple, it is very easy to let it slip away. Anyway, thanks for listening to my music. Hope to see you around when the last part of the set is finished. I'm now working on the last 2 pieces right now. So, it's very close.

@@OphatTaerattanachai ill be there for when you complete the last 2! also by the way, you should definetly submit one of your pieces to the december 2024 original compositions video, it could help a bit with popularizing your work abit more

@@supasayajinsongoku4464 Thank you so much. :D I have been working on something to put into that video as well. But now, I don’t know which one I would like to submit. So, I think I will submit whatever I complete with. Again, thanks a lot. See you again in my next pieces.

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Glad to see you around here, and long time no see. It’s my pleasure to hear such a lovely comment from you as always. Thank you so much.

@@OphatTaerattanachai i always listen to your pieces, i just don't comment as much lol, and i love hearing from you about my pieces too

Thank you so much. :D

Thank you so much. :)

Thank you so much.

Do you mind if I ask for your thoughts and comments about each piece of this set?

Accent

Thank you:D

Thanks a lot. And as you mention a creepy Christmas song, I get the vibe. It seems to have that kind of ring somewhere in this piece. I should come up with a clearer note from my dream later, perhaps.

Thank you so much.

เดี๋ยวก่อนนนนนนนนนนนน!! ยังไม่เปิดให้ฟังเลยเห้ย!! รีบไปไหน!?

Thank you so much for your kind words. So glad to be able to inspire to others through my music as well.

Thanks a lot. Anyway, the first piece of this set, "Dreamy Prelude," is already out. You can listen to the main theme and the main concept of this set there first. And I hope to hear some feedback and comments from you as well, so I can improve my compositional skills. :)

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much. I'm really appreciated. I'm having a serious art block now, but I'll try my best to come up with something new for you. Hope to see you around here again.

By the way what app do u use to compose these beautiful pieces of music?

I use Sibelius Ultimate and NotePerformer.

They're awful lol

Why do you think so?

Thank you so much that you enjoy my music. Your kind words mean a lot to me. I'm very happy that you can still remember the piece even after that long time. I don't upload much on my channel as I'm a very slow composer. And composition is only my hobby. During my current art block, you can listen to something else you find to your liking around here. Hope to see you again when I've got something new on my channel.

Hi there, First, thanks for your kind regards. I'm highly appreciated. Second, about the orchestration, I always look into other composers' scores. When I found some good sounds that they do in their pieces, I will try to check up on their score and try to figure out what and how they do to create that exact sound or effect. This method of learning takes a lot of time, but it is worth your effort. This way, you'll develop your own taste and some set-ups in various styles. Also, you'll learn to orchestrate so many timbres with your instrumentations. Third, how to give each instrument a good part? This one is a very tricky question. But for me, I always think of the sound in my head first. Let's think of how you pass a melodic line between each instrument. The most important thing is how you build a "Phrase." The safest way to make a good phrase is to let only one instrument carry on that melodic phrase through the line. Then, think of how to accompany that phrase. This depends on how you voice your accompaniment. A good knowledge of basic counterpoint and chordal voicing will give it to you. I recommend reading some textbooks about that and practicing a lot. Also, to make the accompaniment not overpower the melodic line, you have to understand the timbre and power of each instrument. Peter Lawrence Alexander's "Professional Orchestration" and Alfred Blatter's "Instrumentation on Orchestration" will give you some basics and fundamentals of instrumentation and orchestration. Lastly, about the string quartet, Violin, Viola, and Cello have very close timbre if you have them play on the same technique. (For example, all arco, all pizzicato, etc.) So, if you choose to play all the same, there are normally 2 options; a moving melodic line with a static accompaniment, and a loud melodic line with a soft accompaniment. You can check up on my other Arrangement video. I hope they can give you some examples of how to orchestrate a string quartet. Hope this comment could help you in some ways. P.S. Sorry for my bad English. English is not my native language. I'm sorry if some of my words seem odd or out of place.

@@OphatTaerattanachaiMan that really helps! Wow thank you! I would have never known English isn't your native language. I will definitely check out the books. This really helps me. I'm self taught. So sometimes it's tricky to find helpful advice. I really can't thank you enough. Keep writing! Honestly when I heard your polka from children's pieces I thought you were a genius.

@avasmith9059 Well, I've also been a self-taught composer until I'm 24 when I had gotten my first proper music education. So, I know how hard it is to learn something by oneself. But don't give up. You can improve as long as you always hunger for knowledge and practice some new things. Now, I'm 33 and still have a lot more to learn and practice. So, it's never too late. If you can find a proper education, I highly recommend that. But if not, it's okay to ask for advice, which I hope my advice are helpful enough for you. Also, you can check up on other channels on TH-cam that teach and give some good lessons and techniques on music composition. Here are some that I've subscribed to; - 8-bit Music Theory - 12tone - David Bruce Composer - Adam Neely - Musica Universalis - David Bennett Piano - OrchestrationOnline - Nahre Sol Hope this would help. And lastly, thank you so much.

@@OphatTaerattanachai aww thanks! I love these channels!

I really appreciate the kind motivation. I really appreciate your music and chanel.

Thank you so much for paying a visit on my channel. I feel blessed.

Woaaa wouldent expect you here

Oh, sorry for a late reply. I have arranged this piece for the students to play and learn here in Thailand. So, it’s for free. I can send a PDF file to you via email. So, you can leave your contact here.

Thanks a lot. :)

Thanks a lot. :)

@@OphatTaerattanachai you are welcome!!

Thank you so much. :)

Thank you so much. :)

@@OphatTaerattanachai you are welcome!!

Thank you so much. :)