Elephants
update:
my spring semester just started. i am starting composition lessons with Trent Hanna and we're doing Tschaichovsky's symphony no. 5 in orchestra. my bass teacher is having me begin a repertoire of solos, so im thinking ill start with something a little less traditional than most works for solo bass. debussy or something.
im thinking that i can have a piece written in time for the composition student's concert at the end of the semester. judging from the last concert, i wont have to work too hard to create something that will stand out.
theres a mental barrier i have to break. i spend a lot of time just thinking about musical ideas without writing anything down or recording something to remember it. i need to spend more time behind the instruments. i have this idea that one could write down and record constantly and then come back to work on things later, instead of waiting for those ideas that snowball into a full song in a matter of minutes, which i have been lazily relying on. i guess ive been afraid of returning to work on something and then forgetting the original feel or mood i was going for when i first started the piece. I'm all for big, sudden, dramatic changes in music, but only if its planned and done on purpose, not because i just randomly slapped some shit down. you can totally hear it and tell when something incincere like that happens. herbie hancock inspires me to to just write and write and write; he's put out a couple albums a year for more than 30 years. and theyre all so different from eachother. perhaps since my personal music tastes change so often, ill put out an album for each music listening period i go through. maybe thats what herbie did. wwhd?
my spring semester just started. i am starting composition lessons with Trent Hanna and we're doing Tschaichovsky's symphony no. 5 in orchestra. my bass teacher is having me begin a repertoire of solos, so im thinking ill start with something a little less traditional than most works for solo bass. debussy or something.
im thinking that i can have a piece written in time for the composition student's concert at the end of the semester. judging from the last concert, i wont have to work too hard to create something that will stand out.
theres a mental barrier i have to break. i spend a lot of time just thinking about musical ideas without writing anything down or recording something to remember it. i need to spend more time behind the instruments. i have this idea that one could write down and record constantly and then come back to work on things later, instead of waiting for those ideas that snowball into a full song in a matter of minutes, which i have been lazily relying on. i guess ive been afraid of returning to work on something and then forgetting the original feel or mood i was going for when i first started the piece. I'm all for big, sudden, dramatic changes in music, but only if its planned and done on purpose, not because i just randomly slapped some shit down. you can totally hear it and tell when something incincere like that happens. herbie hancock inspires me to to just write and write and write; he's put out a couple albums a year for more than 30 years. and theyre all so different from eachother. perhaps since my personal music tastes change so often, ill put out an album for each music listening period i go through. maybe thats what herbie did. wwhd?