For those rare musicians infected with a desire to create true original music an understanding of the relationship between a composer and his work is beneficial. At the core of this relationship is the idea that music reflects a musician’s values. What are values and how are they expressed in music?
A value is something that [...]
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Here is an excerpt from my transcription for Invention #8 by J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750). You can download .pdf files for both parts in their entirety below. PC users can right click and choose "Save Link As" or if your browser has an Adobe Reader plug-in installed you can open the files in your [...]
Reading and playing standard music notation on a guitar, or any multi-stringed musical instrument, is more difficult than reading and playing music notation on a piano or other instruments. The reason is there are many different places on a guitar where a specific note can be played. On a piano there is only one [...]
A ‘model’ is something you compare something to. If I wanted to build a guitar from scratch I might choose to model my design after an existing guitar, perhaps a Gibson Les Paul. All music theory is relative which means it is based on how things are viewed in different contexts. When it gets right [...]
The song My Friend Jerome started with the idea of writing a song about a clone who kills himself because everyone is picking on him for being a clone. I have a theory that power, the ability to affect our environment, is how we prove to ourselves that we are alive. We can create a [...]