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Tag Archives: Composition
Nesting Behaviour
When expectant mothers are nearly due, they often begin fussing excessively about preparations for the soon to be newborn. The decor of the nursery will take on a heightened urgency. Everything has to be just so, or the mother-to-be will … 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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Boring and Ordinary
There are people whose greatest fear is being boring and ordinary. They have an existential need to be special and outstanding. Obscurity terrifies them. Their whole identity is built on this foundation. Sadly, it’s not a very stable footing. I’ve … Continue reading
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Frantic Deeds of Lunatic Benevolence
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
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
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
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?
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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