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I think that it is time to unveil my secret weapon in the pursuit of my composition goals and my trusty cow pilot on this arduous journey. Please meet Cottage Cheese, the Moosical Composition Cow that my wife purchased for me. She is incredibly moosical and supportive. Every day she is right there ready at…
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As I have previously posted regarding the course that I am following on orchestral composition, the current module has been regarding telling stories with music. An important part of this is evoking different feelings and emotions in the listener be that a feeling of suspense, happiness, sadness, loss, or whatever. The trouble that I often…
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Not a very inventive post title, I will admit. I am obviously low on creativity at the moment. I guess we all go through those spells where we feel unproductive, unable to move forward and lacking that needed inspiration, motivation, creativity. What can we do about that? I am not sure. If I were then…
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Musical inspiration is much like inspiration for many creative pursuits, I would imagine. It can strike at any time, from a place, a person, a thing, a conversation, from just about anywhere, anytime. Then again it may not come at all. When we need to try to encourage inspiration, what do we do? Aside from…
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I have been thinking about some strange things that aid me in my quest to become a composer. They are not the usual things one might think of, but to me they have both been important things that have been introduced, that I did not think of as being beneficial to being able to concentrate…
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As a short follow up to yesterday’s post about my attempts to install (paid link) Dorico 6 on my (paid link) Apple M1 iMac I am happy to say that everything went well and was successful. There was a small hiccup with licenses as my Windows PC was registered as having Dorico installed on it…
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I am a Steinberg user, making use of both (paid link) Steinberg Cubase 14 and (paid link) Dorico 6. I am also by force of finances, a Windows user. I have a PC and a Laptop both running Windows 11 and have both Cubase and Dorico installed on each of these. I do however have…
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The last day or so I have been taking a break and clearing the cobwebs, both literally and metaphorically. As such I have made little progress with any composition efforts or coursework. This will change soon, and I will get back to both coursework and composition, along with as much learning as I can manage.…
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I have been working on creating a Silver Membership package and adding the facility to subscribe to this blog. The intent is to be able to provide far greater value to this site. I have added some music theory crib sheets that I find very useful as pdf documents that can be downloaded for Silver…
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I have been looking at ways to improve this blog and make it more beneficial to others, rather than just being a vehicle for my personal inane ramblings. I want to create something that provides value to others, provides information, fosters and engenders communication between like-minded people. Intention is great, but at this point it…