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5 tracks, over 76 minutes of music. Collection of solo piano pieces – sometimes the best music to work to is the simplest.
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Playlist for thinkers to think to contains 5 tracks and over 77 minutes of music. Set up in a similar way to the Reader’s Playlist – the music is piano and string based and mostly inspired by people and events that get me thinking.

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Reader’s Playlist containing 5 tracks and over 80 minutes of music. Tempos range from 61 to 181 beats per minute (although it doesn’t feel like it!) Stemming from the idea that a little bit of stimulation helps overall cognition, the reader’s playlist starts with Identification – a track that was written specifically to aid people take on information at a trade show. All 5 tracks are written for piano and strings and were inspired by different people at different times.

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music2work2 playlist to write to: containing 6 tracks and over 79 minutes of music. Tracks range from 42 to 85 beats per minute and get progressively faster as the playlist continues. Designed to create a calming but stimulating atmosphere that will keep a writer writing even when they start to flag.

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Playlist for Lovers and optimists contains 6 tracks and over 83 minutes of music. I am a hopeless optimist – I believe in the power of love I believe in romance and soul mates and all of that.  This playlist is all of those things – it’s the meeting, the falling in love, the ceremony – it’s the reality of life where you never see each other ‘cos you’re working so hard,  it’s the fights followed by the deep sexual connection and beauty that comes from being with the one you love.

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Piano, Strings, Rhodes, Beats & Tribbles

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I am actively focusing on developing new beats with reason and using them as the base track to freestyle on – it’s great fun.

The original beat track is in 7 time with a tempo of 42 beats per minute (thank you @DarinRMcClure) – makes for an interesting groove.  I ended up playing with several different beats and putting them through various oscillators and frequency filters – the Tribble sound started off as a chemical beat – go figure!

Writers & Writing Playlist

Piano, Strings and an 808 heart beat

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I hope everybody had a great holiday – I certainly did.  I suspect I’m like many of you in that I use Christmas and New Year as a release valve after the pressure of the year.  Two weeks of relaxing, hanging out with family and friends and drinking and eating far too much – I love it!

2009 was a particularly challenging year and yet looking back – music2work2 made giant strides forward.  We completely re-designed the website, changed the logo, moved to a new recording platform and a new keyboard, distributed to iTunes and Amazon MP3 stores, wrote the score to a unique animated movie and sent out our first newsletter.  Not bad on reflection.

I cannot tell you how excited I am about this New Year – I’m going back to school next week to learn how to use the Topspin marketing platform – this will make it much easier for people to listen to and easily share music2work2.  I haven’t taken a class in 20 years – should be fun

This track was inspired by a chance encounter with a Techno gear head masquerading as a University professor – it was a great evening which resulted in us working up a piece built around a Roland 808 and an old Juno 60 – you can listen to the audioboo clip here.  Craig’s working on it for now and when he’s done I’ll add a piano track – I think it might be kinda cool.

Writers & Writing Playlist

Piano, Strings, Organ & Beats for Jennifer & Eric

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Here’s another piece written for two beautiful people who just announced their engagement; Congratulations Jennifer & Eric – may you have a long and wonderful life together.

I’ve been laughing over the name of this track – Jeneric – I’m sure people have been watching the development of it and going – "Silly Andrew – doesn’t know how to spell generic, and also – why would you call a unique piece of music Generic!?" Well – now that you know the piece was written for Jennifer and Eric, I’m guessing you can work the title out, also, there’s nothing like a little misinformation to get people thinking.

This is the first track that I have developed to completion in 2009 and it’s getting published in November – yep, it’s been an "interesting" year. The track continues 2008′s foray into working with beat tracks, Eric listens to a lot of dub music and I wanted to reflect some of that in the underlying groove of the track. As for the tempo – well – after a little research I found that Jennifer is the 84th most popular name for girls whereas Eric is the 86th most popular name for boys – so – I split the difference and the track is cut at 85 beats per minute!

Writers & Writing Playlist

Strings and Piano – written for Paul.

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It’s a crazy information overload world – especially for those of us who live in front a screen. Where do you start: email, internet, tweetdeck, rss feed, facebook or the word document and spreadsheet that you’re supposed to be working on – the telephone rings, a colleague appears – the distractions are endless and procrastination could now be an Olympic sport.

I find that the right kind of music can be critical to me actually starting something and this piece is one of my favorites for that. It starts out so simple and clean, delicate piano, aching string melody – it actually calms me down and helps me decide where I want to focus. But there’s a change at around 10:00 minutes, the energy of the piece just picks up and whether I like it or not, I start typing – it’s great! If I’m lucky, the next time I look up is when the piece is nearing the end.

Written for Paul Ruffin, owner of ECI Networks, a fabulous bass player and all round good guy.

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Short, delicate piece written for strings and piano that gave me hope

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Follow Your Dreams – that’s what they say. Move to Los Angeles, become a Rock Star – or not. Choose to study, to practice – to the detriment of the normal niceties that are supposed to accompany a life. Everybody has their own journey and no-one’s is the same…

I live in terror of not being good enough, of being the delusional incompetent who has spent his time unwisely and probably selfishly in pursuit of something that was never going to be. I suspect that every creative lives with this, although I’m pretty sure that people like B.B King or Paul McCartney don’t sweat the small stuff anymore.

This piece had something in it that allowed me to continue; to believe that if I just worked hard enough and long enough, that everything would be OK. It’s not really music2work2, more of a marker on the way to what music2work2 would become, but it gave me hope at a very dark time and for that – I called it Beautiful.

The photo is my beautiful wife – Wendi – on our wedding day

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