There are times that call for focus. This is not one one of them. This article explores the purpose and place of unfocusing in life and how that applies to composing music.
Here’s something I’ve learned. It’s not really kosher to go around telling people how to do things. I mean, who wants to go and do what someone else says?
Boost your music composing skills today by reading this. Print it out and pin it on your wall. It is challenging but it’s so rewarding.
You’ve probably heard the term”You can polish a turd as much as you like but at the end of the day it will still just be a polished turd”.
I’m sure your music isn’t in this category, but just to be sure that when you’re composing music, you don’t turn out just another polished turd, you may want to read this.
Why is Hare Krishna chanting so potent, penetrating and persistent? Learn how to compose with meaning by utilising these tricks used in Hare Krishna chants.
Create fear in your listeners by composing music using some very neat little tricks
It’s well understood that we can express meaning by combining emotions with information, (see my last article about more on this) but lets break it down a bit. We’re going to look at different emotions individually and explore how these emotions effect us, what meaning they bring to our lives and how we compose to…
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Let me talk a little while about my take on the reason we compose music. Why compose? Composing music is something that people have used throughout all of history to communicate. What are we communicating? It’s emotions. Its feelings. Its ideas without words. Words can be very clunky and cumbersome to get our ideas…
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