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Discover the Power of Mental Rehearsal Part 2: Image Streaming

September 15, 2006 By Graham English

Image streaming is the exact technique used by geniuses such as Einstein, Edison and Tesla. Not only will image streaming enhance your creativity, it will actually increase your IQ! Image streaming is your doorway to the subconscious mind. This … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: Albert Einstein, brain, composing, consciousness, creativity, CreativityHacks, exercises, HowTo, image streaming, intelligence, IQ, memory, mental rehearsal, Nicholas Tesla, personal growth, problem solving, subconscious, Thomas Edison, visualization, visualizing

The Rules and Principles of Counterpoint

August 18, 2006 By Graham English

Counterpoint

These rules of counterpoint are simple and easy to memorize. Use them during the arranging phase of your music producing. Counterpoint: a composition which is written strictly according to technical rules. In earlier times, instead of our modern … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: arranging, chord progressions, composing, composition, consonance, counterpoint, dissonance, fundamentals, harmony, modes, motion, Music Theory, rules, Writing Music

Discover the Power of Mental Rehearsal

August 16, 2006 By Graham English

Have you ever created the perfect melody or song in a dream? Or maybe you composed a complete symphony or an amazing solo? Imagine that you could create those "perfect dream moments" anytime you want. Imagine there is a process so powerful that you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: Albert Einstein, athletes, breathing, composing, exercises, goals, HowTo, mental rehearsal, Mozart, Nicholas Tesla, NLP, NLP techniques, personal growth, problem solving, right brain, subconscious, Swoosh, visualization, visualizing

Deceptive Cadences

August 14, 2006 By Graham English

The progression from V to I has the name "authentic cadence" and from IV to I, "plagal cadence." A "deceptive cadence" is understood to mean the substitution for the expected progression, V-I, of the progressions V-VI or V-IV. The effect is strong … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: authentic cadence, composing, composition, deceptive cadence, Music Theory, plagal cadence

How To Master Musical Textures

August 10, 2006 By Graham English

How To Master Musical Textures

If you need more compositional choices or your music needs more depth, you might want to play with the textural qualities of music. This won't be difficult because I've prepared a textural dictionary for you. Polyphonic, while literally meaning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Arnold Schoenberg, bass, composing, composition, contrast, counterpoint, dictionary, harmony, Music Theory, musical textures, polyphonic, polyphony, reference, rhythm

Define: Counterpoint

August 9, 2006 By Graham English

1. The art of polyphonic composition. 2. Composition with two or more simultaneous melodies. Double counterpoint is written so that the upper voices and the lower voices are inverted. Thus, the low voice becomes the top voice and vice versa. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: composing, composition, counterpoint, definitions, polyphonic, polyphony

Music from 10-20-05

July 12, 2006 By Graham English

This is me [tag]composing[/tag] a [tag]ballad[/tag] on the [tag]piano[/tag] with a beautiful haunting [tag]melody[/tag] in the key of [tag]G[/tag]. I might put lyrics to this one. [tag]chord progression[/tag]: ||: G | D/F# | Emin C/E | Bmin7 | … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Music Tagged With: Amin9, ballad, beautiful, chord progression, composing, G, haunting, LIVE, melody, modulation, piano, rubato, solo piano, ToWrite, vamp

Music for 02-23-06c

February 23, 2006 By Graham English

This is the work in progress of the next song. No need to listen to this unless you want to hear me composing. Around 12:00 I start to find what I'm looking for. Download: Music for 02-23-06c … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Music Tagged With: ballad, BbMAJ7, coldplay, composing, EbMAJ7, LIVE, melody, pop, rock, rough, u2, Vocal

Do You Consider That Each Note Has A Different Character?

February 7, 2006 By Graham English

Ross: Hi, do you consider that each note has a different character? If so, have you found that the same qualities of the same notes are heard by different people (eg. F# = bright, Eb = dull)? If not, what do you see as the point of learning AP … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, APP FAQ, arranging music, composing, Ear Training, EarTrainingHacks, FAQ, Instruments, listing, live music, mental concepts, music, musical imagination, musicians, soloing, transcribing music

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