It dawned on me this week that I’m running behind schedule. My goal is not to just write 10 tunes by the end of the year, but also record them. I forgot to budget in time for the woes of recording. uggh.
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I booked the date for the performance debut of this music: Tuesday, 1/18/06 at Brookline Music School. That’s something to get excited about. For me, Performing is much easier than recording.
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I’m writing just about everyday now. I’m titling the tunes by the date I’ve started them. Not all of them get past the first day. This was an exercise I used to do back in 1999. I had a series of projects that titled “30 Second Tunes.” My goal was to just simply write 30 seconds of music each day and then move on. After about a month of doing that I would revisit my work and then begin to develop them into tunes. I seem to be taking a similar approach now.
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I took some tune ideas over to Tim Miller and he gave me some good suggestions for development. Just listening to the way he interpreted my tunes was helpful. I didn’t realize how possessive I was about certain aspects of my tunes. It was keeping me from developing them. It was very helpful to get his perspective and advice.
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Sibelius has this great feature where I can publish music to their website and anyone can come by and check out my scores. How perfect for this project! My page on Sibelius is: http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/brendanburns.
Check it out.