Tag Archives: Composition

Frantic Deeds of Lunatic Benevolence

Posted on March 18, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

Being the child of immigrants who fled a major world war is a unique experience. Most children, thankfully, don’t have direct, first-hand experience of what it’s like to grow up with parents that, despite their best efforts to carry on … Continue reading →

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The Kind of Musician I Wanted to Be

Posted on February 26, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

Sitting in a favourite coffee shop, on Saturday morning, waiting for my daughter to finish her music lessons, I was reading about the human mind’s unique talent for finding patterns in nature and the ancient cognitive roots of our musical … Continue reading →

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Let’s Talk About Latency

Posted on January 23, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

This post is all about music production using computers and it’s going to get quite technical, so if this is not for you, thanks for reading this far, but catch you another time. If you care about music production at … Continue reading →

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Uncontaminated Creative Time

Posted on January 8, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

The productivity experts tell you it’s easy. We all have twenty four hours in a day, so finding creative time is just a matter of priorities. If you want to find the time to be creative badly enough, you’ll find … Continue reading →

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Has Music Education Lost Its Way?

Posted on September 3, 2017 by tropicaltheartist

Depending who you ask, rock and roll originated some seventy years ago. Jazz is about a hundred years old. Even Rap is pushing fifty. These are musical art forms that predate young music students, today in their middle teens, by … Continue reading →

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Recording With Commitment

Posted on August 27, 2017 by tropicaltheartist

Maybe it’s because I was recording sound long before there were DAWs, automated mixing consoles and plug-ins that replace tens of thousands of dollars/pounds/euros of outboard equipment, but it seems the way I record runs counter to how audio schools … Continue reading →

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Playing With Commitment

Posted on February 26, 2017 by tropicaltheartist

I was reading one of those glossy guitar magazines, the other day. My wife buys me one, every now and then, as a much appreciated gift. In this edition, there was an obituary, of sorts, for the late Rick Parfitt, … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Composition

Frantic Deeds of Lunatic Benevolence

The Kind of Musician I Wanted to Be

Let’s Talk About Latency

Uncontaminated Creative Time

Has Music Education Lost Its Way?

Recording With Commitment

Playing With Commitment

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