Forget Tech, It’s About the Notes
Composer Jeff Tolbert explains why it’s important to step away from the gear and make sure you’re actually doing what your job title suggests: composing.
Read More →How to Use Chord Voicings Effectively – Part 2
In this second part in a series on chord voicings, Robin Hoffman writes about low interval limits and explains how to effectively apply them to your music.
Read More →How to Create Tension with Climbing Scales
An examination into the boring old scale, and how it can actually be exploited to create tension in your music.
Read More →The Running Line in Orchestral Writing
Composer Alain Mayrand teaches us how to add motion and activity to our orchestral writing by using running lines.
Read More →How to Use Chord Voicings Effectively – Part 1
Robin Hoffman kicks off a new series on Chord Voicings by discussing how we hear consonance and dissonance.
Read More →Value Studies: A Painter’s Technique for Composers
How the Value Study, a useful technique from the world of painting, can be applied to the art of Composition.
Read More →Big and Small, Part 1: How to Make Your Music Small
In an industry where bigger is better, Jeff Tolbert discusses ways that you can take your music in the opposite direction and sound really small.
Read More →An Approach to Finding Your Voice
Alain Mayrand discusses what it means to find your own voice as a composer, and offers up suggestions for how to develop yours further.
Read More →Are You Trying to be “Cool”?
Is it possible to write in such a way that your music never sounds dated?
Read More →Is “Score Design” Dead?
Composers LOVE to say that they use all of their own sounds. We call B.S.!
Read More →All Due Respect to The Maestro
I don’t know John, and he doesn’t know me. Which is good… I don’t want him to.
Read More →Is Musical Form Relevant?
What to do when your organizable musical structure relies on a moving visual target.
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