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Top Secret Patterns (shhh, they’re free!)

July 18, 2006 By Graham English

Patterns are a great way of putting scales to work. Not only do they get you out of any do-re-mi rut, they expand your musical vocabulary. They also expand your mind by forcing you to think about systems within systems—and sometimes within … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: creativity, diminished patterns, diminished scale, music lessons, Music Theory, musical vocabulary, MusicHacks, patterns, scales, soloing, technique

Exposure: From Friction To Freedom

June 22, 2006 By Graham English

A simple observation lies at the heart of the Exposure book: that as different areas of culture start flowing in digital networks, it becomes self-defeating for artists, publishers, labels, and also regular people to insist for control over the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Opinion, Prose, Technology Tagged With: Art, creativity, culture, Media

Who Else Wants To Master the Diminished Scale?

June 15, 2006 By Graham English

The diminished scale is an extremely creative tool. Due to the diminished chord's symmetrical structure of stacked minor thirds, we have two options of diminished scales: half step-whole step and whole step-half step. A major benefit to this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: creativity, diminished scale, John Coltrane, lessons, music lessons, Music Theory, MusicHacks, patterns, scales, symmetry

Phofilmusigner

June 5, 2006 By Graham English

Ideas are in motion. And new technology is allowing photographers, musicians, designers, filmmakers, and artistic pros everywhere to blur the lines of traditional disciplines. Visit the new Apple Pro site and experience the projects and people that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream, Prose Tagged With: Apple, creativity, Media

Random Word Generator

June 4, 2006 By Graham English

Just found a new and free random word generator. It creates random sentences and paragraphs too. But the best part is random word plus. You can choose the word type and the word complexity. If you were to add syllables and stress you would have a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: brainstorming, creativity, CreativityHacks, lyric writing, Object Writing, random word generator, Songwriting, songwriting tools, stress, syllables, words

MusicHack #4

May 7, 2006 By Graham English

Lost? Get some direction. Use Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies to tell you what to do next. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: creativity, MusicHacks, oblique strategies

If Leonardo da Vinci Were a Songwriter

May 3, 2006 By Graham English

Adapted from the book, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant musician. If he were alive today... He would have an insatiably curious approach to songwriting and an unrelenting quest for continuous … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Art, craft, creativity, don't tell, Ear Training, inspiration, Leonardo da Vinci, lyric writing, paradox, show, Songwriting, story, writing lyrics, Writing Music

The Future Of The TV Commercial Is From The Past

April 8, 2006 By Graham English

I was just talking about Marketing to the Millennials where I quoted John Geraci: "New technologies rarely actually replace existing technologies. They tend to reposition them."Check out Mark Cuban: The future of the TV commercial is from the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: advertising, creativity, Millennials, Technology, TV

Quote of the Day

April 4, 2006 By Graham English

"My future starts when I wake up every morning . . . Every day I find something creative to do with my life." - Miles Davis … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream, Prose Tagged With: creativity, Miles Davis, quotes

Sexy Object Writing Word Generator

March 22, 2006 By Graham English

Yesterday I posted how to get your creative juices flowing with object writing. Today I found a great site that you can use to randomly generate objects to write about. It's more of a surprise word generator than a random word generator because you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: cool, creativity, dictionary, Object Writing, random word generator, thesaurus, tools, writing

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