Hey yall, first original piece ever, and despite its current state I'm kinda proud of the way it works. However, it could probably be better.
That's where you guys come in: I have a few questions about music theory that I would like answered. Could you suggest your improvements?
Firstly, the piece sounds fairly boring in the first and last phrases of the piece. What can I do to liven it up? Simply throwing chords into the piece may not help- the piece already has a baseline: the simple one-two steps that give the composition its namesake.
Most online videos strongly emphasize repetition and variation, or more precicely, taking a motif and mutating it slightly throughout the measures. However, for the first half I composed fairly freely, and the second half I followed this dogma. I like the first half better, especially from measures 17 to 22. Why is it then, that the less informed half of the music sounds better?
Lastly, are there any major issues with the piece that I can't see myself that need to be resolved?
