Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
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PersonalSoundtrack is a very small computer that you wear. It detects the speed of your walking or running and plays songs from your music library that match your pace. The speed of the current song changes in real-time to match your gait. Larger and more deliberate changes in pace cause it to change songs. How [...]
Learn these 4 tricks to help you write the best songs of your life. It will take you just 10 minutes to learn, too.
The First 10 Seconds
Imagine being inside the mind of a busy A&R guy or in-demand producer. It’s running over important decisions to make, artists to direct and develop, managers to call back, [...]
CD prices have been too high for over a decade. It seems that Wall-Mart has gotten tired of it because they are cutting CD prices. It takes a retail giant like this to tip CD pricing trends in our favor.
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Topics covered: Hooks, song titles, song ideas, lyrical insights, melodic insights, hook placement, and much more…
The Christmas season, my favorite season of the entire year, is ALMOST here — and courtesy of Jermaine and HearandPlay.com, I have a PERFECT gift idea that YOU or one of your relatives would LOVE to see under the tree (…or better yet, on top of their piano)!
Jermaine just let me know about his brand [...]
Iraq deaths put at 655,000:
LONDON (Reuters) – American and Iraqi public health experts have calculated that about 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion and subsequent violence, far above previous estimates.
Fuck.
Update: Bush claims that the research methods used to get the above number have been discredited. But statisticians say [...]
Then submit your sage advice at the Songwriting Tips Group Project at BloggingMuses. Your tips will be highlighted on their very own page and you can even promote your website or music project or whatever you like.
I’ve already submitted my own songwriting tips. It’s fast becoming a serious songwriting tips resource.
See you there.
Find another musician or composer — and with their permission — elicit the strategy they use to choose what to compose or the strategy they are using to compose a current piece of music. Use their strategy to decide what you are going to compose or to help you with the music you are currently [...]
Is it possible to restructure, unlearn or change old beliefs that may be limiting us and imprint new ones that can expand our potential beyond what we currently imagine? If so, how do we do it? And what exactly is a belief?
The dictionary defines a belief as “an idea or judgment held as true or [...]
Elicit from another musician their strategy for choosing what to practice each day. Make sure that you have a detailed sequence and make sure that it is a very different strategy from yours (if it isn’t, choose someone else). Use their strategy for choosing what you will practice tomorrow, knowing that this is only an [...]
Dr. Kurt Fischer (Harvard Graduate School of Education) explains in his dynamic skill theory that we all develop through stages of development while learning new skills. These stages also mimic the developmental levels we go through from infant to adolescent to adult. They are: (1) Actions (or Sensorimotor), (2) Representations (or Concrete Operations), and (3) [...]
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Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies
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You have to put something into your mind to get something out.
Access a learning state fully. Remember a specific time when you were a virtual learning machine. What can you tell about your learning strategy? How do you know when it is time to learn something new? What internal steps do you take to ensure that you are learning the material or task? How specifically do [...]
…the key to dramatic improvement in any field is — that’s right — practice. But, it has to be what Ericsson calls “deliberate practice.”
“A lot of people like to do things that they’re already good at, but what deliberate practice says is you need to find those things that you are weak at and that [...]
Mac OS X only: Freeware Dashboard widget OnTour scans your iTunes music library, letting you know when musicians you like are coming through your town.
If you don’t own a Mac and you’re a musician, it’s really time.
Click here to download.
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The Building Blocks of Experience
Today we’re stepping out of our boxes. We’re going to experience some things you wouldn’t think had anything to do with your self-concept. I’m going to make it abundantly clear just how important this information is to you. So let’s begin…
As human beings we have 5 major systems that our experience [...]
Elicit your motivational strategy for dong something that’s not necessarily fun, like practicing scales. Next, elicit your motivational strategy for doing something you love, like jamming with your friends. Are these strategies the same or different? What are the most significant components in these two strategies? Are these components the same or different? What did [...]
While practicing your instrument today, notice your decision strategy for choosing what you are going to practice. Slow the decision process way down and write down each step of your strategy. Identify the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic components of your strategy. What do you see in your mind’s eye? What do you hear or say [...]
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.
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