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Pedaling on the 6 instead of the 3

May 18, 2012

Of course said Charlotte – I never pedal on the 3 if I can help it The pedaling on the intro had been bugging me for a while – so – here it is with the correct set up – surely the full piece can’t be too far behind now! If you’d like to be [...]

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Getting into Wendi

May 4, 2012

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Just as with life – often times you need to get warmed up before you get stuck in; I have found that in order to easily to get into Wendi, I need to get my fingers limber and my head in the right place! I have this piece of music, based around the Wendi theme [...]

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Messages from Siri…

April 6, 2012

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I’m getting better at capturing ideas: there’s a waterproof notepad in the shower, one entire wall of the living room is a blackboard, and now of course we have Siri. Being able to quickly voice record an idea and have it sent to you as a message the next day is brilliant – here are [...]

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From A Dark Place

March 28, 2012

It’s been a shitty couple of days; sometimes all you can do is take the shit and transform it into something else. I like this – it has a foreboding about it which is kind of cool as neither the keys or the lower strings ever play the minor third – everything is fifths, fourths, [...]

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Wendi Feb 10 Variation

February 15, 2012

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Still struggling with the piece but working to push on through. This is a variation on the theme from last Friday which I’ve been listening to a lot. It’s helping me dial in the tones and the various relationships between the individual voices. Of course I like this so much I’m thinking about how to [...]

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Frustration Blues

February 3, 2012

I don’t know why, but, when I get to the end of a piece I find it incredibly hard to finish. I’ve spent the last month rewriting, tweaking, hating the tone quality and generally being dreadfully unhappy with everything about the Wendi piece. This is normal – I wish I didn’t go through it but [...]

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Wendi – Second Keys

January 16, 2012

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transition from one theme to another – no editing yet – just volume and tones – lots of listening to do… If you’d like to be notified when it is published – you can become a free member and download the Writer’s playlist too or sign up below for the new music newsletter. New Music [...]

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Wendi – November 2 – Development

November 2, 2011

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Raw mix from this morning’s session. The string parts are almost there and the keys are pretty much dialed in too. This is using the raw audio from the Roland HP203 which I kinda dig. No balancing and just a little bit of panning. Still not got the parts on the back end – but [...]

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