[Music]- Pianist "MusicalBasics" just gave away US$1k as prize money for his viewers to send him their original piano compositions for him to play

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One of the top 3 (out of 150+ entries submitted) winners (but not the #1 who gets the $1k) wrote this comment below the video :


Honey_Beef2 weeks ago
Thank you Lionel for playing my piece, I can't really express my gratitude simply with words! I would never think that I am capable of being featured by you, let alone get featured with my FIRST EVER COMPOSITION. The other two compositions by Rhon and Rizal are so good, I can't choose between them; but if I were to choose from the three, I would have chosen among them two. What I feel about the two pieces: Winter Fantasy is a very fantas-tic piece to listen to, it really brings out the feel of winter; if you don't really enjoy it yet try to think of winter in your brain, the piece would sound a lot better. Kintab is such a calming piece, it's done so well technically as well; somehow I feel a little bit of Michael Shen "The Gentle Zephyr" vibes in it. And now begins my Ted-talk of what made this piece possible lol. It all started with episode 2 - Michael Shen, 13-year-old legendary composer, and Lionel who featured him. Although Awakening is my first ever composition, I have in fact done some (crappy) vocal arrangement beforehand. So I was like "hey a 13-year-old did that, maybe I could give it a try, won't end well but whatever; I mean I've done some vocal arrangements so that's at least a thing" and started writing. Perhaps I'm not good with looking for a melody, I ended up reusing one of my older ideas of trying to compose (which never happened, until, well Michael's inspiration). Fair point about Lionel saying that it isn't that original because it really isn't. But with my arrangement experience, I decided to stick with a singular motif and go from there. And then this piece existed. After that, I submitted this piece with my manuscript writing (what was I thinking at the time). I was so lucky that I made a slight demo of the "epic" part of the song, which made Zulaski (ep.1 fan pieces) interested in my song and say "hey you should probably make a digital version, Lionel won't read manuscripts", then begins my journey of Musescore composing. Without him I won't be here. Lionel gave a very nice arrangement to this piece (for those who don't know, he made adjustments to most of the pieces he played), and his choice of levitating octaves in some parts is truly amazing, along with so many subtle changes that turned out to be very good. He didn't just feature my song, he made it his own song. Major props to him for that! Finally, (I guess a bit of promotion is allowed?) So here is the original version of the piece: https://musescore.com/honey_beef/sonata-op-1-mvnt-3 (Musescore link). Feel free to leave a comment there as well! Don't forget to check out Lionel's unique rendition to the piece, link of the score is in the description. Here's a little hope of mine: all composers here, if you haven't yet, please join MusicalBasic's discord and submit a piece, link in the description. It really is a very good community to share your original pieces in. I personally entered the server only to submit the piece, only to find out that it's one of the best communities with very nice people giving you insightful feedback to your music. Oh and Michael Shen is such a legend, I think I should bring out the point again using a hashtag. #ShoutoutstoMichaelShen

 

[syed putra]

There are actually composers who write songs, create groups such as spice girls and boy bands, and market them and make tons of money doing it.
And none of the songs here will sell to that market segment.