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Composition

Creating Melodies – Basic Types

July 25, 2010

Creating melodies is a challenge in the beginning for music students, they learn what other composers have created for melody lines. After a time the student wants to create their own melodies. Starting with understanding the two basic types will help. learn more…

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So You Want to Write Music

July 12, 2010

Writing Music is a dream of many musicians, Guest Author and Composer-Teacher, Bob Reno talks to us about writing music and music theory. Read more…

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Start Improvising

January 14, 2010

Improvising is often thought of as the ultimate creative objective. However, starting within a framework or structure is where most improvising takes place. Taking the opposites of structure/rules and creativity and working them together is the objective of the musician and music student. Some thoughts on how to accomplish this goal…

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Christmas Song Arrangment

December 28, 2009

I recorded the full arrangement of the Christmas song for this Christmas Eve post. However the blog had a problem and didn’t post as scheduled. So hopefully better late than never. The recording was not under the best of conditions and I didn’t realize just how hard I the arrangement came out to just sit [...]

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