Episode 2 of the Art of Composing Podcast. In this episode, I talk about my music composition process. The goal here is not to have something complicated and strange, but to layout how I structure my …
Melody Writing – Part 2: The Tools of Melody
When composing a melody, you have to be able to simultaneously comprehend all of the different aspects of a melody, while at the same time, push them out of the active working part of your mind, so …
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The Secrets Behind the Music Composing Process, Part 3
Developing the Composition The next phase in the music composing process is developing your composition. All composers must go through this process. You have to take that messy glob of musical …
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Capturing Musical Inspiration
The music composing process seems to be elusive and hard to nail down. But I believe it boils down to a few things: Finding inspiration and removing inhibition, capturing that inspiration, letting the …
The Secrets Behind the Music Composing Process
In this series of articles, I will address, not the specifics of how one composer worked versus another. Instead, I am going to take a bird’s eye view of the music composing process. [Update: 2019] …
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