NOTES ON THE TUTORIALS FROM "SIBELIUS 5". |
NOTES ON SIBELIUS 5 TUTORIALS1. FINDING YOUR WAY AROUNDMove paper around by dragging with mouse. Click and drag miniature view.Check out tool bar at top. -To zoom in and out: Hold down ALT and click. ...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:49:00 GMT |
CHART AND EXPLANATION (IN THE MAKING) OF MY TUNE "BALLOON ANIMALS" |
I've been having a ball digging up some of my scanned charts from www.flickr.com. This is a tune I wrote called "Balloon Animals". It's kind of interesting in its harmonic resolution approach, scales ...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:41:00 GMT |
ALTERED V7 BACK-CYCLING CONCEPT, APPLIED TO "IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD" |
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:05:00 GMT |
GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL |
GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL by Jared DiamondI was creating a summary of this book as I read it, but I decided to finish reading it first. I know that I'll have better insight on the summary of each chapter...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:36:00 GMT |
OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK IM WRITING |
I'm practicing/creating/compiling information for a book that I'll eventually write about jazz guitar, for jazz guitarists. It won't contain things that I've mastered, but rather, everything I'm worki...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:33:00 GMT |
STORYBOARD INTERPRETATION: "BASIE STRAIGHT AHEAD", BY SAMMY NESTICO |
This is my interpretation of the story board to the Sammy Nestico composition "Basie Straight Ahead", from the Rayburn Wright book "Inside the Score".Basie Straight ahead story board: 4 choruses total...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:49:00 GMT |
INDIAN MODAL IMPROVISATION |
INDIAN MUSIC COURSE SYLLABUS "PAPER TO EMAIL" TRANSCRIPTIONI was recently transcribing marketing research focus groups from analog tapes, into microsoft word documents. My typing chops are kinda up r...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:22:00 GMT |
PRACTICE LOG BLOG: I BELIEVE IN DOG, ESPECIALLY AFTER A JOG |
I'm going to try to start keeping a practice log blog. It'll make it easier for me to put whatever it is that i'm working on in a finite context, while also getting feedback from other people that are...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:58:00 GMT |
STORYBOARD: CHART FOR 5 HORNS AND RHYTHM SECTION |
So, I've been studying out of this book called "Jazz Arranging andComposing: A Linear Approach", by Bill Dobbins. It mostly focuses ondifferent techniques for arranging for 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 horns. The...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:15:00 GMT |
HARMONIC "LIFT" THROUGH SUPER-IMPOSED V7 CHORDS |
harmonic "lift" through super-imposed V7 chordsThis is the latest thing i've been working on, and I've been doing itover an F blues. In this case, we're working with two stringsets of 4strings, 5432, ...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:00:00 GMT |
