As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
recent posts
- 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
about
Category: Life
-
Steven Pressfield’s (paid link) The War of Art is an enlightening read about how the greatest roadblocks to achieving our creative and artistic goals our ourselves and the resistance that we introduce to our lives. It is an encouraging book but does not brook any excuses from us, no whining or procrastinating, no indulging the…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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?…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…