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Right now there are not too many additional things that I feel that I need to get to supplement the things that I have at the moment that allow me to pursue my current goals and dreams, but as we always know, there are things that are not crucial but would be nice to have…
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If you read my previous post about the issues I was having regarding being able to use the Spitfire Symphony Orchestra Discover Edition from Spitfire Audio, you will know of the untold difficulties I encountered trying to use Native Access to install this. Amazingly I have finally managed to get Native Access to work long…
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Some time again I purchased a MIDI guitar and had started to try it out, but shortly after that I had computer issues and had to reinstall my entire PC. I have only now found time to start to explore the MIDI guitar and begin using it again. The midi guitar is a Jamstik standard…
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I have been taking a few days off and so do not have much progress to report. I have been doing my daily guitar practice and exploring some different chord progressions, mostly things that I think I can transfer to piano and then ultimately make use of with orchestral instruments. I am working on an…
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As a beginner composer with little experience, I have found the need to provide myself with copious notes in order to build that retention that encourages facile and ease of use of different techniques and information. As I age, I find it harder to remember things that as a young man would have become embedded…
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I think that it is important to play regularly, not just play for necessarily a long period. I find it better to play a little each day rather than a long session once a week. I confess that I only play for a short period of time, probably 10 – 30 minutes a day, but…
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I was noodling around on an acoustic guitar and found a pretty chord progression that I liked and thought I would share it here. It has a nice descending pattern where the top note of the chord voicings descends adding some nice voice leading. Initially I was playing with a D minor shape played at…
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I have been enjoying watching videos of film music composers on youtube lately. Why have I been doing this? Well, there are plenty of them and I think that it is interesting to see the composers of film music that we often hear as part of a film, but just as often almost do not…
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I thought I would share a few dodgy pictures of part of my work area. Mostly I work / study at my desk where I have two monitors, keyboard, and a midi keyboard. I use headphones mostly but have a pair of monitor speakers, one on each side of the screens. I have my rack…
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I have had a rack, the (paid link) RIVECO POMU 12U Network & Stereo Rack with Caster Wheels, for about 8 months that houses my PC and some outboard gear, audio interface, compressor, equalizer, and a digital effects processor, but have not made use of anything in it except the PC and the audio interface.…