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Music  is  about  your  life  experiences,  dreams  &  love  for  people



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Being  active  in  the  music communityperforming  &  collaborating 


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Your  Songwriting   tells  stories  that  change  our  lives!




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Your  music  helps  us  understand  the  drama  in  our  personal  lives.



And,  oh yes,  thanks  for  the  great tunes  we  sing  to  ourselves  all  day!








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Pulling  us  into  dimensions  of  sound  experience



Probing  our  capacity  for  beautyspiritual depth  &  the 


interplay  of  competing  music  ideas





Your  Music  Improvisations   leave  us  spellbound



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You  have  a  real-life  grasp  of  music theory  in  your  mind  and  fingers.
 


You  make  it  all  sound  so  easy
 

Your  musical  ideas  seem  to  flow  endlessly  out  of  you 


Musical  form   evolving  as  you  play.
Able  to  interpret  your  audience 


with  the  finesse  of  a  magician.
 
 

You  collaborate  with  other  musicians,   each  listening  to  the  others


co-creating , waiting  for  your  turn  to  shine





You are the ultimate musician!




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Elements  of  pre-composition ,  performance  &  musicianship  at  the 


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You  amaze  us  in  the  moment  -  and  professionals  admire  your 


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    Music Improvisation  @  Wikipedia

    Musical improvisation is the spontaneous creative process of making music while it is being performed. Improvisation exists in almost all music, but is closely associated with particular genres such as blues, jazz, bluegrass, the Taqsim of Arabic and Turkish music, Indonesian gamelan, and Indian classical music. To use a linguistic analogy, improvisation is like speaking or having a conversation as opposed to reciting a written text. Among jazz musicians there is an adage, "improvisation is composition speeded up," and vice versa, "composition is improvisation slowed down."





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    Welcome to my page of "hints, tricks and tips" when composing and producing your own music.  This page is simply a result of "public demand", as a lot of people write to me and ask for tips about writing their own music  |  It's actually quite strange that I should write this kind of stuff - as I have no formal music education, neither in composition nor in production. So the cynics out there may perhaps say that I haven't got a clue what I'm talking about. And they are right!"  | 





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