Posted in Music on Mar 26th, 2010
Emily Hope Price is writing, recording and posting a new song a day for a year. She was inspired by another musician’s song-a-day-for-a-year project. She’s up to song no.82. I look forward to her new posts. It’s such a good idea that it’s been taken up by Steve from Secrets of Creativitytoo . . .
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Posted in Music on Feb 20th, 2010
I’ve just learned how to place a track in a post like this: Looks professional and is easy to do when you know how. Just install the free ’audio player’ plug-in. Then, when you upload your track by clicking the add audio button, you get a new option in the box called audio player. Select this and hey presto [...]
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Posted in Mantra, Music on Feb 6th, 2010
I sat down with my guitar with the intention of creating new music and used the Tara mantra to enable me to freely experiment with sounds and get into a rhythm. Then I switched to using a technique that I learned from http://secretsofcreativity.blogspot.com, which is basically to imagine, whilst playing, that my left hand is mother/female and [...]
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Posted in Mantra, Music on Feb 4th, 2010
I experimented with chanting whilst playing the guitar, with the intention of finding new music. I started off playing the chords that went with the melody I was chanting and became involved in that pattern and sound for a while. But it soon became a safe place that I couldn’t get out of. Notes I [...]
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