Ristretto ?
I started the day drinking one to wake me up.
It worked well, so I opened my music machine.
First shot of Pianoteq at 8:00, fiddled in Reaper, sent to Hearthis at 11:30...
No time to work my brain to come up with a title, so Ristretto will do it...
Ristretto ?
I started the day drinking one to wake me up.
It worked well, so I opened my music machine.
The other day someone asked How to Compose. I guess this is as good an answer as any.
As so often your music, so at odds with the normally more melodic sounds I listen to, kept me interested until the end.
For those that don't know : Ristretto.. To many Irish (like me) the expression "I started the day drinking one to wake up" means an entirely different kind of liquid.
Gaston wrote:Ristretto ?
I started the day drinking one to wake me up.
It worked well, so I opened my music machine.The other day someone asked How to Compose. I guess this is as good an answer as any.
As so often your music, so at odds with the normally more melodic sounds I listen to, kept me interested until the end.
For those that don't know : Ristretto.. To many Irish (like me) the expression "I started the day drinking one to wake up" means an entirely different kind of liquid.
Are we born with the ability to make beautiful music or can we learn it trough practice?
Now I can answer my question - I think anyone can compose (learn to compose) music. Because, I suddenly remembered what i did with my pupils (9 to 12 year old) over 50 years ago…We listened much to music, Grieg, Beethoven, Vivaldi - music that was describing something, that had a story I could tell. They wanted one day to make own music, so I had xylophones and glockenspiels for them. And recorded with old tape recorder what they played, some better, some worse…and helped them to write down the ”melodies”. A radio programme for schools needed music made by children. We sended some short melodies and later they were in a newspaper for schools and later an other shool made text to one of those melodies - a little song about a snail was born. And later that song was in a little songbook for children!
The joy of discovery is not dependent of talent. Children listened a lot, on purpose, it was an adventure some years. They composed their own music bringing together what they had listened to, their ideas, in individual style, in probably the right place and right time with (right?) teacher. I think their ”unmusical” notes became famous. Music is expression. No rules…..Many of them practising music today