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- What’s Inside Music Theory for the Guitarist — A Practical Guide for Guitarists
- The Beauty of Simple Tunes
- Understanding Modulation in Music: How Key Changes Shape Emotion and Structure (Silver Members)
- Music Theory for the Guitarist — Book Launch by Julian Froment, PhysMuse
- Heterophonic Texture: Unity in Variation
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I approach you today with an update on the intended course of this blog and the PhysMuse brand. There is much I would love to share with the world and that starts with all of you. Where do I want to go? I want to grow this blog into a platform that provides not only…
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Another great book from Steven Pressfield, the sequel to (paid link) The Art of War that I reviewed the other day, (paid link) Turning Pro is a great continuation of the theme of his previous book. Fully titled Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life’s Work this book gets down to examining…
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My wife and I are planning a trip, and I have been trying to put together a travelling kit of things to take to be able to get down any ideas whilst we are away. What have I got in my kit? These are the basics Anything else I need, I wonder. I want to…
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This time of year, is always a time of preparation for the forthcoming year. Planning and plotting and making resolutions. Although I am not really one for resolutions, I certainly enjoy planning and making decisions on what I expect to be doing in the coming months, just so I can change my mind and do…
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This will be a fairly short post, but one of great importance and pride to me. You may have noticed that my avatar has changed from a photograph to a rather spiffy stylized version of me, My artist wife created this for me, and I have to say it is a very good likeness. She…
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I have spent a fraught week or so trying to get my computer to behave and to rebuild it from scratch. I have been plagued with random reboots, programs crashing, and a complete lack of stability, the usual expectations with a windows computer, but they became so common that it was almost impossible to get…
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I think it is always good to have plans and what better time of the year than now. So, what am I planning on doing in the coming year. I want to complete some of the courses that I have started, or have purchased. The main ones are the ones that I have from ThinkSpace…
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Aside from spending time with my loved ones, I have a few things to try to get sorted out over this period. My main music computer has been totally misbehaving, and I have to wipe everything and am now unable to get it to install windows 11 properly. It looks like there is some kind…
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I was pondering the question of how do you create your own compositional voice, how do you start to sound like you, not an imitation of those that you admire, those that have influenced you musically? So again, I consulted the oracles and to see what I could find out about this question. What is…
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Why Do We Like Certain Types of Music? The Psychology Behind Our Musical Taste Music is universal, and ubiquitous in our society. So why is it that we do not all like exactly the same music, the same sounds. Why does something sound angelically beautiful to one person and causes another to itch with discomfort?…