Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
This is me composing a ballad on the piano with a beautiful haunting melody in the key of G. I might put lyrics to this one.
You’d better have a good headline or I’m not going to visit your site. And if I do visit your site but the rest of the article isn’t as good as the headline, then you’ve lost me. I’ll only make that mistake once and then I’ll probably unsubscribe.
Best practice is to provide full feeds and [...]
This month, images from the project will appear on the sides of buses in Denver, for the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art’s “Creative Acts That Matter” exhibit.
This is one of those lists that can piss you off! I’d say that it’s a lot more than embarrassing. It’s down right unethical.
From Embarrassing questions for the entertainment industry:
# The RIAA has sued more than 20,000 music fans for file sharing, yet file sharing continues to rapidly increase both online and offline. When will [...]
Cleaned up 120bpm electronic groove in Dmin. It’s multiple takes of me playing over top of everything else.
120bpm electronic groove in Dmin. It’s multiple takes of me playing over top of everything else. Very much a scratch first run through.
I’ve launched a new site based on the world-famous Grove School of Music in LA. Elite Musician Society offers serious college-level musicianship courses that make you a solid musician.
We give free personal consultations.
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Marc Garneau thinks peace would break out everywhere if political leaders had the opportunity to orbit the earth.
You go around the earth in 90 minutes and see 16 sunrises and sunsets. You can see 2000 km in front of you. You see the extremely thin atmosphere. Your perception changes physically and mentally.
We live in a [...]
This fullest moon is to remind us of the light even in night, and it serves as a wishing moon. Legend has it that if, under this moon, you write down your hopes and dreams for the coming Fall on a scrap of paper and leave it to sit out all night, that the morning [...]
I was opened by the sound of the rain last night.
I heard every drop all at once and I found peace.
Deep stillness.
THE GEOMETRY OF MUSICAL CHORDS
Dmitri Tymoczko, Princeton University
Musical chords have a non-Euclidean geometry that has been exploited by Western composers in many different styles. A musical chord can be represented as a point in a geometrical space called an orbifold. Line segments represent mappings from the notes of one chord to those of another. Composers [...]
Music hacks are slick solutions to common musical problems. This Music Hacks podcast is designed to help you learn to hack your music intentionally, so you never get stuck and experience more joy out of playing.
Al Gore is planning to address Wal-Mart executives next week at the retailer’s quarterly conference on sustainability, part of the company’s recent efforts to become “an environmental leader”.
I hope they start a trend.
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Topics covered: Mental rehearsal, how to get your music heard, how to elicit good feedback about your music, outcome-based thinking and intentional music, effective lyric phrasing, songwriting hacks, “open loops”, the 80/20 rule of songwriting.
This is a short chord progression in the key of Db. It’s dark, pensive, and introspective. Approximately 65bpm.
iPod recording. hammond organ and Trinity synth bass Ebmin7 | Ab7 100bpm funk.
iPod recording of a bluesy C7 120bpm Hammond organ groove with a vocal scat solo.
Practicing Bb rhythm changes on the hammond organ at 130bpm.
From McCain on the global warming:
At an event here in Aspen, asked about global warming, something very close to: “I’ve been a supporter of the President … but this administration has betrayed the tradition of Theodore Roosevelt.” Indeed.
Strong, clear, passionate, and able to say things people don’t want to hear.
But more than one republican needs [...]
about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
If Heroes needed a new superhero, it would be Montage Man. He can speed things up and add a catchy tune. 1 day ago
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