April 2012 Blog Posts (5)

This is a piece for solo piano, inspired by the Indiana Jones movies and other adventurous shows like Jonny Quest. Imagine a chase scene with bad guys chasing good guys through a raging underground river with all sorts of obstacles and dangers on the way. There are two melodies - the main melody is in the base line (to reflect the underground river) and a secondary melody in the top notes of the chords played in the treble clef as accompaniment.…

So it's been ages that I logged in here. Lots of things have been going on , good and bad. Lucky some of those things were music as well.

When I joined this forum last year I just started to venture beyond my edm work and tried to get into writing 'music for the media'. In this relative short time I actually managed to even make some progress although I unfortunately couldn't focus on it 100%.

The most interesting thing that happened was getting a shot at doing the music for a…

http://www.youtube.com/show/pensadosplace

Pensado is a mixing engineer who has worked with Beyonce, Elton John, Kelly Clarkson, etc. His Youtubes contain a wealth of information. Also, on Facebook, you can join a group called Pensado's Students.

Everyday I try to list to something new, whether it is something classical or jazz or rock, etc.

As it is impossible to hear it all (and also to get to know everything), I would like to know what you people think that is essential to hear during your lifetime. 

To be more practical and varied, let's post 5-10 things classical compositions, 5-10 jazz albums, 5-10 rock albums and/or whatever you feel it is essential!!!!

Here's my…

so after a long month of writing and trying to figure out how to write out what I hear in my head I finally finished my choral piece. You will notice there is no recording. Thats because I cannot create a mock up of this piece due to the nature of the piece. Im just posting the PDF here until I can get it read.

Next to of course god america For Choir