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13 - the unanswered question

Fallout from the Songwriting course was a link to Leonard Bernsteins 1973 Harward Norton Lecture “The unanswered question”. While ironing my shirts today I watched lecture nr 2 about the syntax of music. If you have just a passing interest in music, music theory, linguistics, the universal grammar and Noam Chomsky and you are delighted by listening to a profound, delightful and humorous lecture, presented in the most extraordinary manner, then spend the 96 minutes to watch this and learn about the connection between speech, lyrics and music and see how Mozarts Sonata in G Minor #40 is constructed. ...

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14 - Tango

Daniela and I have been taking Argentinian Tango lessons for the past two months. We are soon (like this sunday) finished with the introduction course and planning on taking the next step. Part preparation, part training, part fun saw us go to a Milonga with live music tonight. The mix of people was fascinating - young women and men, middle aged couples and a couple of seniors. There was dancing, listening to music and enjoying the spectacular dancers. ...

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16 - Pat Pattisons Introduction to Songwriting (recap)

Why do just one course at a time, when you can do two? The correct answer, of course, is that you should always be learning (I gave up on the third concurrent course though…) Concurrently with the Music Production course I took Pat Pattisons “Introduction to Songwriting” class. As you know, I have been semi serious about playing guitar the last year, and been singing quite a bunch of the “standard” songs. ...

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17 - music production

The “Introduction to Music Production” course has ended and in the next days I will get a certificate stating that I participated in it. All nice and well, but the important thing is the amount of stuff I have learnt. This post is a recap of the last 6 weeks, with the main takeaways of each week (as well as the assignments I recorded) Week 1 - Sound and Signal Flow Basics, basics, basics - things that I had “known” for years (decades even) but nicely packaged together. ...

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