Starting Music Composition Prompts of the Day

Hello everyone! Sorry that it’s been a long time since I last posted. The holidays are quite the busy time. I try to do one Christmas arrangement every year. I just released an easy piano version of “Mary Did You Know?” You can purchase the music here.

Today, I want to start a blog series of music composition prompts that you and I both could use. I believe these would be helpful. My next YouTube videos will consist of these. Let’s call them “Composition Prompt of the Day.” In these prompts, I will try and aim for writing something that is structured and beautiful as well as practical.

Okay, so here we go—yours and my Composition of the Day prompt is:

Write a small fugue or fughetta that is in 3/4 time but sounds like it’s written in 4/4. Polyrhythms are acceptable. Aim for about 15-20 measures.

There you go! Go for it! See what you come up with. As a matter of fact, you can go ahead and contact me with the compositions you came up with and I can critique them for you.

Stay tuned for plans for a YouTube series on the Prompt of The Day.” I think this will be awesome!

Of course, I’ll embed the YouTube videos here too.

Happy Composing and happy holidays all!