I decided to see how I’d do trying to compose my own tune. The result is in ABC below. I though I’d see what people think of it, if it’s decent, boring, too derivitive, etc. I did this for my own amusement, so it won’t bother me if you tell me it sucks.
Not bad. I think it has something. Not sure what, yet.
You need to fix the abcs a bit. I’m assuming that those Cs early on should be an octave above middle C, rather than a leap down from the Bs. So that people can convert the tune using Tune-o-Tron or similar, a header would be useful, which means you can get rid of those sharp signs. So, given that, try this:
Ben, thanks for the correction. I did indeed have those C’s in the wrong octave.
Kypher, I’m not sure what the > means in ABC, so I’m not sure how that differs from what I have.
It means a dotted note followed by a semi-quaver (sixteenth note). So he’s just saying to play them with a bit of bounce. But sure, you’d do that in a jig in any case, wouldn’t you?
After playing through this some more, I’ve decided I don’t like the A part. I do like the B part, but I think I need to work some more on the beginning.
The end of the phrase sounds almost identical to the end of one of the Butterfly phrases except the last two notes are different - this one goes down and butterfly goes up.
My other comment is that it’s all 8th notes and that doesn’t create a lot of interest. If you can work in some non-8th notes I think it would be much more interesting.
I would like to write some ITM myself. After having not much success writing “rock” (which was really more folk anyway), I think the structure of ITM would make it much simpler for me by eliminating a lot of choices. So I plan to give it a go.
Thanks for sharing yours, it’s motivating for me. Cheers.
