My first invention

sepheritoh

No, not of the Zappa kind, but rather something much more humble. I'm calling all classical boffins to freely critisize
Sepheritoh's first invention

I've been reading far too much about things I do not understand. In the process I came accross Goetschius's theory of counterpoint and his famous "invention".

I did not want my invention to sound like a Bach chorale, so I opted for the guitarist's oldest trick in the book: fingerpicking. I know fingerpicking arpegios is not true counterpoint, but it does sound much better than the "choppy" 16th note chromatic runs. For those who know what I am talking about, I bow down to your supperior knowledge. For the rest of us, you can get great classical book resources for free at the internet archives

Riaan

Hey Seph...really nice tune. As one of the "rest of us", and one who does not always even know what key he's playing in, I certainly cannot comment on the theory side of it, but it does sound good!

sepheritoh

Thanks Riaan.

Glad you enjoyed the tune, as strict classical theory compositions often sound so, well, all the same. I tried at least to make it not sounding like a classica clavier tune.

Manfred-Klose

Sounds great, really well recorded acoustic guitars.

I think i kind off understand what a "invention" is now.
I'll go look into that link, thanks.