No lessons and you manage to make a great song?
Wow, that's impressive. This is quite an emotional piece, and it's really well done. Good job.
Sad melodies... this song is full of them. There were many melodies here to stop the song from becoming boring, and there are some really nice melodies, especially towards the end with the fast notes at 1:51, as Thief1337 said. You should've continued the song a little more like that, since it sort of came and went so suddenly without any reason. Then you could try and end the song slowly and softly after. As Kirbyfemur said, it was nice to have some parts with silence in them instead of non-stop notes.
What I didn't like was that you practically stayed at the same volume of the piano, with no changes in the automation throughout, or if there was, just a little. I'd like some tempo changes, like rallentandos, and times when the song plays softer. Maybe a few crescendos, that is, the song goes from soft to loud, and stuff like that. A piano piece isn't a piano piece without that kind of stuff ;).
The piano sample was great quality... I'm actually wondering if that's a real piano or not O_o. The lyrics are really well written. I'm not usually the one to enjoy lyirics in songs, but that's only my opinion, and I'm sure the song would be much better off with those lyrics sung with it. Maybe you could even try and post another version of this with more instruments like strings and stuff.
The transitions were all done perfectly, and the song flowed very smoothly. The variety in this piece is extraordinary. There was no fixed chorus, but I won't reduce marks for that, because I think it sounds better without a chorus. Intro was great, a nice way to start the song, but the ending was quite abrupt. Try an arpeggio ending; they usually work out well in piano songs, or you can repeat the fast notes for another bar, and then end it how you did.
This is a really nice piece; if only Newgrounds could appreciate piano songs like this... Oh well, it's a good song, and I enjoyed it. Just needs more tempo/volume changes IMO, a better ending, and maybe if you could make it longer that'd be great :3.
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