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Imposed Expectations
Ever notice how many people want to impose their idea of how you ought to make your art? They’re adamant they know better and that you ought to comply. They’re sure of it. I find it annoying and highly offensive. … Continue reading
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Progress-Limiting Habits
We’re creatures of habit. One of our dominant modes of learning is repetition. We start slowly, but by developing a habit for doing, we improve incrementally. We get better at things by doing them over and over again, initially badly, … Continue reading
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Prosodic Event Mapping in Songwriting
What are you talking about? There’s music in the spoken word. Poets know it. So do songwriters. Phrases and words have a rhythm. The way we stress and emphasise the syllables in our utterances makes accented rhythmic patterns. Some words … Continue reading
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Imprecise Music Production Terms
What even are these, exactly? These are all terms you’ll often hear in music production sessions, but do we all know and agree on what they mean? Can we measure them? Do we even know how to do them? I … Continue reading
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Art Smuggling
There’s something important about LP records that the inventors of the compact cassette, compact disc and streaming music services evidently failed to grasp. If they were to be believed, these music delivery formats had a single function – to deliver … Continue reading
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If You Want…
If you want to be a better Composer Song writer Music producer Rhythm guitarist Bass player Band member Drum machine programmer Dancer Drum machine designer Musician Empathic human being then takes some drum lessons. I’ve started taking drum lessons and … Continue reading
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How Many Creative Options Do You Need?
This is a hard lesson to learn for many artists, myself included. Here it is, though: adding more creative options only causes you to reach a point of diminishing returns quite rapidly. Beyond that point, having more creative options available … Continue reading
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Musical Motifs
My musical focus, lately, has been on trying to compose melodic motifs or fragments, in an improvisational setting, that have some beauty to them. It’s very easy to simply roll out all the licks you’ve learned, or to doggedly stick … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrangement, Art, Composition, Expectation, Improvisation, Melody, Motif, Music, Process, Repetition, Surprise, Suspense
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Playing the Right Note
Here is some wisdom, which sounds Zen, perhaps a touch impractical, airy and even blindingly obvious, but which is very important, for any musician, to learn, internalise and follow. The business of playing music, especially improvised music, is all about … Continue reading
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A Kind of Fraud
I’ve been reading behind-the-scenes recollections and reminiscences of life as a top-flight, session, studio musician, in the 1960s and 1970s, lately. There is something that intensely disquiets me about that whole era and the way that popular music was produced … Continue reading
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Creative Ideas for Starving Artists 