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Oh and by the way, I haven't studied music or anything like that, but I would like to learn more to help me improve and to understand things better. Do any of you know of some good material to read, like maybe an ebook, and maybe have suggestions as for which topics it might be good to read about.

Soleviio wrote:

I think length is entirely dependent upon the musical material, to be honest. If you have a theme that keeps developing and developing, hell, let it develop as much as you want it to. If it's not developing much but the instrumentation is keeping things interesting, just cut it short if it gets repetitive--if not, let it grow. Length should be a byproduct of musical fluidity and arrangement, not the other way around.

I'm learning this the hard way. I set out to do a 3 minute tune, but end up fully developing the theme by the 1:45 mark, more often then not. Sometimes I'll get lucky.

However, I wonder if sometimes it's not really a case of the song naturally developing as a short tune, but just me not knowing how to let the listener digest an idea before moving on to another one.

Soleviio wrote:

Length should be a byproduct of musical fluidity and arrangement, not the other way around.

i agree, i was seeking tunes that capture what the shortened length implies: a strong melody with simple instrumentation. just one idea. perhaps i've spent too much time on my super nintendo recently, and this has fallen a bit out of style. i've tried my hand at it, it's good fun (maybe even risen into the lower realms of mediocrity) (criticism appreciated if anyone has thirty seconds to kill), so i was hoping others would know what else is kicking around

i'm impressed with the selection this board has provided. word

I can't stop you guys from posting but I wouldn't be surprised if this thread was closed for spam pretty soon.  This thread should've probably stopped halfway through the third page and now look at me bumping it again

Square Therapy, I know this is your thread but half of the replies are you; there's no need to suck up to the community by replying to every post / double replying to every post.  Your track was solid and you've made yourself known, good work.  It's obvious most of us like a poster who isn't a total loser at chuptines out of the gate.  We've given you plenty of advice to work on for next time, so let's all chill out and get back to work.

I'm looking forward to your next track.

EDIT: then again, everyone on this forum loves to prolong threads way past their acceptable lifetime, you can just look at the "deciding a name" thread to see that