I want to be a composer well its a dream anyway

[John Rasmussen]

Originally posted by mrfixit:
Oh well just ranting on really lol

Still, it sounds as if you're pursuing your dream.

I find that there are certain stages to mastering every art. First: "Oh, this is fun!" After a few days: "Arrrrgh! I'll never get the hang of this!" Then, finally after weeks or years of struggling: "Aha! So that's how it goes." What's important is not to give up during the Arrrrgh stage. Hang in there!

[This message has been edited by John Rasmussen (edited July 25, 2003).]

[spaceray]

Yes I agree,the arrrgh stage is brutal.

[mrfixit]

Yeah i am sticking in there shame i dont have much computer time sometimes i got to get ideas down in under five minutes. Well at the moment i would guess the hardest thing about peforming and writting down music must be the rhythm.

[Peter]

Originally posted by mrfixit:
Yeah i am sticking in there shame i dont have much computer time sometimes i got to get ideas down in under five minutes. Well at the moment i would guess the hardest thing about peforming and writting down music must be the rhythm.

From the performing point of view yes rhythm is the hardest and virtually impossible to teach - that's not to say a sense of rhythm can't be developed, but the really great artists have a perfectly natural sense of rhythm.
From the composer's point of view - all the great ones agree that the writing down of the notes is the easy (if laborious) bit!

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'Man know thyself'

[spaceray]

Originally posted by mrfixit:
The problem with the midi program i use is that i dont think you can change the tempo of the song halfway through the tempo you select is fixed through out the song. Thanks for the advice i will try out what you suggested when it comes to doing the melody backwards. I think i would come up with better stuff if had a keyboard to mess about with though to test out my ideas quicker.

Hi mrfixit,
Have you heard of Tod Machover's inventions
Music Shaper and his computer programm Hyperscore? Check out www,toysymphony.net.
hope this helps,
Muriel

[mrfixit]

Heres something i been working on

http://www.geocities.com/spiderman_fix/concerto.mid

[spaceray]

Hi mrfixit,
I tried several times today to open this page but no luck.Did you ever check out Hyperscore this looked like the most intresting and accesable music program for computer that I have ever seen.
muriel

[mrfixit]

http://www.geocities.com/spiderman_fix/music2.html


That should work now. Anyway i havent worked on anything for a while simply becuase i only had acessed to a computer with awfull midi sound.

[spaceray]

Well my friends and I listened to this and thought it was delightful,it has a rather comic character and suited our needs as back ground music while we looked at a slideshow of paintings after James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Keep up the good work.

[mrfixit]

I am just wondering was there a hint of irish folk music with the flute playing cuase that what i was trying to achive. I am just wondering if any other people do compose stuff with midis i wouldnt mind hearing them. I can only find orignal work that is sort i dunno ravey or popy well its got a lot of drum beats anyway.