Susam's Music Pages

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

2013-02-14T00:00:00Z

This is a short musical piece consisting of 56 measures. It is 1 minute 52 seconds long. The music is composed of four tracks.

The four tracks in this piece are: grand piano, slow strings, xenon pad and music box.

This arrangement is based on the popular melody of the nursery rhyme called Twinkle, twinkle, little star. The melody is played with the treble notes of the piano. I wrote the bass notes for the piano and strings. The high notes for the pad and music box bring in the emotions of love and happiness. I recorded this after about two hours of practice.

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Flowers

2011-01-22T00:00:00Z

This is my third attempt at composing music. I composed, played and recorded it almost a year before publishing it. It took about a year to publish it because it took me time to write the sheet music.

This piece consists of 161 measures. It is approximately 3 minutes 8 seconds long.

Most of the music emerged naturally from my mind while thinking about roadside fields with wild plants and flowers. Some of the bass notes did not come out naturally and I decided them, quite artificially, to fill the music with a pleasant and peaceful mood. It took me a couple of days to compose this. I played and recorded this after a day of practice.

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Waiting for Dawn

2010-07-24T00:00:00Z

This is my second attempt at composing music. This piece consists of 147 measures. It is approximately 4 minutes 28 seconds long.

The mental image I had while composing this piece was that of a guy, sitting alone in a dark night, waiting for the night to pass and the dawn to arrive. 0:00–1:30 of the piece represents the night. 1:30–2:15 is the time when the darkness starts fading away and the sky turns red. Everything after 2:15 is about welcoming and enjoying the dawn.

For me this mental image doesn't just represent a particular night passing away due to the rotation of our planet. It represents how we should handle tough times, heartbreaks, loss, etc. in our personal lives. We should remain calm, wait for tough times to pass and good times to come and when the bad times give way to good times again, we should welcome and enjoy the good times.

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A Few Notes

2010-07-18T00:00:00Z

This is a very short piece I composed in December 2009 when I began learning to play musical keyboard. After about 3 hours of music lessons, I came up with a very simple single track piece. In the next few days, I added more tracks to the piece which resulted in this piece.

The composition is very short and simple. It consists of 29 measures. The duration of this piece is 53 seconds approximately. It is composed of 5 tracks. I played and recorded the 5 tracks separately on my Yamaha keyboard. The tracks are: piano (hypetine), harp, strings, nylon guitar and standard percussion kit.

The music was recorded as an MP3 file with Audacity after connecting the musical keyboard's output jack to the laptop's line-in jack using a cable with 3.5 mm stereo plug at both ends. A 3.5 mm stereo jack to 6.35 mm stereo adapter was used to connect the 3.5 mm (approximately ⅛") stereo plug to the keyboard's 6.35 mm (¼") stereo jack.

Most of the piece was written as a learning exercise for myself. The 4th track containing arpeggios from nylon guitar is meant to play hide and seek with the main track and sound happy.

The 2nd (harp) and 5th (percussion) tracks are missing from the sheet music because I couldn't find a way to add a track for harp in LilyPond and I don't know the music notation for percussion kit. I'm not very good at music notation. So, there may be notation errors in the sheet music but it is good enough to remind me the notes of this piece in case I ever forget them.

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