Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
I’m sick as a dog so I won’t be doing any partying on New Year’s Eve. But that won’t stop me from having a little fun.
Happy New Year!
btw, I’m blogging from TextMate again. I can tell you that it won’t be replacing Ecto because I can’t create excerpts. Bummer. But if I can [...]
Here’s the final entry to my 2006 Celebrations and Reflections series. According to my stats, these are the top 20 most popular posts of 2006. Have a happy New Year!
How To Be An Expert
Your Goals As Waveform
What is RSS and Why Do I Care?
The World’s Most Important 6-Sec Drum Loop
Absolute Pitch Power Blogathon
Can Hit Songs [...]
Since 2007 is going to be about increased productivity, efficiency and leverage, I decided to pick up a copy of TextMate to get the ball rolling. Wow, is this program powerful! I’m a big shortcut fan. My philosophy is if you’re using your mouse, then you must not value your time. But TextMate takes shortcuts [...]
I feel sad and, well, unsatisfied with the death of Saddam Hussein. We went to war with Al Qaeda in response to 9/11. Yet Bin Laden still lives. Then we went to war with Iraq and declared mission accomplished over two years ago. We have now lost more Americans in that war than those who [...]
This is me sketching out an idea on the piano in the key of F.
solo piano composing ballad 77bpm ToWrite
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John Edwards launched a bid for the White House in New Orleans today. Seth Godin is calling him “The YouTube President” because he also announced his candidacy on YouTube. Scoble is blogging his campaign.
This is going to be fun to watch!
Here’s two cool sites I found through eHub.
iJamr is a music social network for music makers and webmasters. It provides you with a viral media engine to help help you promote your music at no cost and even make money in the process.
Jamglue is an online community for discovering, creating, and sharing original music. They [...]
This is a moving post from Ken Wilber. He went through a lot and I’m so glad that he pulled through.
Link: BLOG: Meditate and Eat Your Veggies
I’m settling on this melody for now. I might play with the second half of the verse to give it a lift.
It’s a pop triplet feel in the key of B at 90bpm.
ToWrite verse chorus melody
Music technology is bound to make leaps and jumps in 2007. Just have a look at the new music technologies we got to play with in 2006.
Find New Music With Musicovery – And Songwriting Ideas Too
If You Haven’t Checked Out Splice Yet, You Don’t Know What You’re Missing
The Easiest Way To Get News On All [...]
It’s not the news you want to wake up to on Christmas day. But the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, has died.
This is a continuation of 12-07-06b. I’m working out different ideas for the melody to see which one flows better.
It’s a pop triplet feel in the key of B at 90bpm.
ToWrite verse chorus melody
Learn how to promote and market your music, self-publish your music, and make your music business grow in 2007 with these tips from my top music business articles of 2006.
Searching For Other Musicians To Play With? Try This…
WikiMusicGuide
How to Market Your Music with MySpace
Your Music Will Sell In Japan?
Tunecore Puts Your Music Into iTunes And [...]
It seems that greatness was on my mind a lot in 2006. I wondered about how to become great. I was inspired by people who already are great. And I did my best to overcome the challenges that are on the path to greatness. So here are my top peak performance articles for 2006.
Glenn Gould [...]
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I use the term “music hack” to refer to slick solutions to common musicianship problems. Some of them relate to making music and some of them relate to performing. But they all deal with how you think. So here’s the top Music Hack of 2006.
There Is Nothing Boring In Life. Only Boring People.
It’s Not Just [...]
More Christmas music.
solo piano
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Looking back over 2006 I can say that I learned a lot. And it seems that I taught a lot too! These music theory articles should keep you busy over the holiday break.
The Rules and Principles of Counterpoint
Deceptive Cadences
Advice To Beginning Musicians
How To Master Musical Textures
Internalize And Eternalize The Music By Transcribing Solos
Learn Orchestration Free [...]
I’m trying to learn how to use my EastWest Symphonic Orchestra and I’m feeling in the holiday spirit so I decided to experiment on a Christmas tune. The good news is after much troubleshooting I’ve got it figured out.
60bpm C piano orchestra strings french horns acoustic bass
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Google just released this statement today:
We ask that publishers not line up images and ads in a way that suggests a relationship between the images and the ads. If your visitors believe that the images and the ads are directly associated, or that the advertiser is offering the exact item found in the neighboring image, [...]
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. 19 hrs ago
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