I am having a lot of fun working on my latest film scoring project. Meanwhile, I’m taking some orchestration and music production courses on Udemy. Gradually, I’m learning about the world of…
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Day 258: Composition Train Next Stop, Film Scoring!
Last year I wrote a lot of compositions. Roughly a hundred and fifty, judging by my Apple Music playlist, minus a few compositions that showed up in multiple versions. The game I…
Day 254: How I Sit Down to Write
(Note: there is some R-rated language in this post) When it comes to sitting down to write, I have an approach that helps me get my ideas out easily, going from a…
Day 237: To My Creative Muses, Surprise Me!
When it comes to creative inspiration, I am very comfortable letting it come to me. I never try to force it. If my head is foggy or I am in not in…
Day 224: What I Love About Scoring for Film
Yesterday I shared a new scoring project I did for a TV clip dated 1944 of “Captain America.” I found this project very energizing and wanted to write in more detail what…
Day 214: An Enjoyable Day
What a difference a day makes. Yesterday was the kind of day I was relieved to “get through.” However, this morning as I lay in bed I already felt good about today….
Day 185: Blissing Out at the Cafe (2023 Edition)
For years now, I have loved going to the cafe to write. These days I do my best to time it so I can maximize my positive experience. I aim to go…
Day 168: Letting It Evolve Naturally
So I have been composing daily since the beginning of June. That’s almost seven months of daily composing. I have written a ton of new music, gotten a lot of experience using…
Day 144: My 4-Million View Video
So my Charlie Chaplin video has reached 4 million views. The magical fireworks were from May through July, where I got tens of thousands of views on an average day, and as…
Day 132: A Perfect Match
Is I type this, I am listening to a playlist on Apple Music of my compositions. I create my compositions on a computer program called Logic. Since the beginning of June, I…