My dabblings with Finale Songwriter

[Aethix 129]

I downloaded a demo of Finale Songwriter a few days ago, and I've been playing around with it. Partly inspired by G333's topic, I've decided to post a little song I've written. I know it's a little rough, especially toward the end, but it's the first song I've written and I haven't had a lot of time for it.

Enjoy.

[Ganny 285]

Alright, constructive criticism time.

First of all, it seems as though the song has a hard time sticking to a key or maintaining a coherent melody. This sounds like it should be in C Major, but you're trying to avoid ending a phrase on that C. That would make the scale you're using more clear, make it more pleasing to the ear, and make it sound like the melody is going somewhere. I'm assuming you can read music at least to an extent, because that's kind of integral to using Finale.

Learning music theory always helps, so you can get into harmony and the construction of chords and relationships between the degrees of a scale and other things that help you to understand how music is held together. Wikipedia is always good for that. =D

[Aethix 129]

Thanks, that was helpful.

[ZuZu 10]

to me it sounds very LoZ like =)

Keep it up.