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How the Fr*&g is it February Already?
Listen from 10:27 to the end if time is limited, lurve, lurve, lurve John Adams, please be my mentor, i’ll bake for you! I’ll propose to you on the 29th!! Lol! Don’t tell the wife. Developed the ‘Push and Pull’
How the Fr*&g is it February Already?
Listen from 10:27 to the end if time is limited, lurve, lurve, lurve John Adams, please be my mentor, i’ll bake for you! I’ll propose to you on the 29th!! Lol! Don’t tell the wife. Developed the ‘Push and Pull’
Sketchisimo
What do you get if you cross a dodgy keys player, midi sounds, Logic Pro, an hour, excessive listening of Ravel and afrosounds? A musical sketch which sounds like this: sketchy (my bounces always end abruptly for this blog). I know
Sketchisimo
What do you get if you cross a dodgy keys player, midi sounds, Logic Pro, an hour, excessive listening of Ravel and afrosounds? A musical sketch which sounds like this: sketchy (my bounces always end abruptly for this blog). I know
A late Akemashite Omedetou De Gozaimasu (Happy New Me)
A new year, new year’s resolutions, brand new second hand you, new diaries, new socks. Instead of resolutions I have made some determinations (kind of similar) but the process is habitual (twice daily in fact), and I am winning, I’ll share
A late Akemashite Omedetou De Gozaimasu (Happy New Me)
A new year, new year’s resolutions, brand new second hand you, new diaries, new socks. Instead of resolutions I have made some determinations (kind of similar) but the process is habitual (twice daily in fact), and I am winning, I’ll share
Push and Pull
My Uchenna dance score commission deadline fast approaches. It’s been good fun working on it, is my compositional skill developing? I hope so. I am starting to see patterns in my musical style which is good, this awareness will mean
Push and Pull
My Uchenna dance score commission deadline fast approaches. It’s been good fun working on it, is my compositional skill developing? I hope so. I am starting to see patterns in my musical style which is good, this awareness will mean
New Commission, Another Sketch
Collaborating some more with Uchenna Dance co. Have learnt loads from previous commissions; indeed the process never ends. Here’s a wicked bit of advice for budding dance composers like me. Today’s 30 min sketch, loops, playing with midi, ah, if
New Commission, Another Sketch
Collaborating some more with Uchenna Dance co. Have learnt loads from previous commissions; indeed the process never ends. Here’s a wicked bit of advice for budding dance composers like me. Today’s 30 min sketch, loops, playing with midi, ah, if
Episodes of Blackness
A dance piece I composed music for is being performed next month at Dance Xchange, 4th November. I’ll be sat at the back biting my nails, critiquing. Be there!
Episodes of Blackness
A dance piece I composed music for is being performed next month at Dance Xchange, 4th November. I’ll be sat at the back biting my nails, critiquing. Be there!
Just write.
(For the creatives). “Just write. It’s not about sitting around waiting for the muse.The people who are really good labour over what they write.” Amy Ray
Just write.
(For the creatives). “Just write. It’s not about sitting around waiting for the muse.The people who are really good labour over what they write.” Amy Ray
holidays
Spent the month away from the Midlands. Started southside in Hastings with my beautiful friends Debs and Ben. I taught EFL in a beautiful school, swimming twice a week early each morning in the outdoor pool. I went from coughing,
holidays
Spent the month away from the Midlands. Started southside in Hastings with my beautiful friends Debs and Ben. I taught EFL in a beautiful school, swimming twice a week early each morning in the outdoor pool. I went from coughing,
Workshopped Out
Been delivering a fair amount of workshops this term, as well as being busy running new promotion Rea River Soul, last venture was a success, lots of great feedback – woop! The promotion game is a tiring one when you’re
Workshopped Out
Been delivering a fair amount of workshops this term, as well as being busy running new promotion Rea River Soul, last venture was a success, lots of great feedback – woop! The promotion game is a tiring one when you’re
Hello Miss Bobbie
(not sure what you prefer to be called but since I’m in Asia, better do like them and follow up “miss” with your first name)
I can’t remember how I happened to find your site, but it’s really interesting and I sent the URL over to my brothers in NY, thinking they too might appreciate it. I sent it along with the sentence: It’s nice to mix the thing you love with making money.
I say that as a hint to them that just maybe they could leave their mundane civil service jobs (like I did) and find something that feeds the soul. Either that, or find such a thing within your civil service work, right?
In any case I just want to say that I appreciate what you do and…
well here’s a question for you. Why didn’t my reading ever catch up with my playing (piano). I think that not being able to read better kept me from developing the confidence to explore music that my teacher didn’t assign me to learn.
Just curious to know if you have any tricks up your sleeve that I could pass to my dad who is still tickling the ivories at 81 years young, but like me never learned to read very well.
T
The way I encourage my students to improve upon their playing is by using flash cards.
So, right from the start they are working out the spatial arrangement of notes/analysing the relationship between the piano keys and sheet music.
That’s the best way- if you are serious about reading the notes that is