It is easy to be a perfectionist, for me. I like things to be just right and as near perfect as I can get them. This extends well into music and my production of it (or lack thereof). But it doesn’t have to be this way. For example, my last album I m...
Simulating a Real-World Piano After having been to Budapest and found an 1896 C. Bechstein piano in the lobby of The Continental Hotel, I’ve learned much more about how I can make the same sound of it or any other piano within Pianoteq or via other v...
I am not a master at organization when it comes to my music, but I can tell you what works and what doesn’t work for me. Maybe it could help you. The line between “productive” and “creative” is always getting crossed. I continually move from one to t...
You know how to make music, but maybe you’re a little frustrated by getting it actually done? Can’t seem to produce new works? This post is for you. It’s not that you can’t make music, it’s just the tediousness of it all and it is much more fun to pl...
Where exactly do songs come from? Not an easy question. But, I believe there are two distinct ways that music arrives to the musician. Well, here’s what frequently happens to me, and the explanations I have for each. Make My Idea I have some specific...
Wondering how to get started making music? It’s not hard and I can tell you what I did. Read on and you’ll be able to know my experiences and can adapt these ideas for your own. My background is not music. For me, I had a little piano experience when...
Last updated: 3-December-2021 I had the goal of creating a great multi-band compression/expansion scheme using Pro-MB. Fortunately for me, Xfer Records gives away a free plugin effect called OTT that is a three-band compressor. It performs upward and...
Brian Eno is, to me, the undisputed king of ambient music. He coined the term, “ambient music” in his groundbreaking album “Music for Airports.” Here I will revel in his sound-creating process and offer some captured bits of what I know of it – not a...
Cinematic music is fascinating to me. It moves the story of the movie along and the movie itself is nothing without it (at least it is a completely different movie). I’m interested in deconstructing the sound of cinematic music and Hans Zimmer is one...
