This miniature came very quickly… eventually! I wanted to write something using the intervals that are contained in the tone row as well as the notes themselves. However I really struggled to find the time to spend any quality time thinking about how it might work. Eventually the imminence of my next lesson forced me …
I’m doing some tidying up and came across the CD from when Alexis and I went on the local radio to play for their worldwide audience… so here, for your listening pleasure, is Alphah on Biggles FM!! 1. Intro 2. If you don’t want to love me 3. You 4. Use Somebody …
I have one of my daughters, Eleanor, to thank for this song. I had been playing the guitar riff for a while and we were sitting in the kitchen one day. There was a door that was rarely used in the kitchen. It looked out onto a wall and a house and the light would …
I like this song. I don’t like the mastering I did. It’s too inyerface and not subtle enough. This was what I called the dance edit. But, that aside, it resonates with me. It leaves me euphoric and very positive. It’s forward-looking and enabling. So to the song. The structure is straightforward, verses and choruses …
This little miniature has been hard fought. Even though you would never think that if you saw the sketches. Paltry few! But it has taken over a month to get his little beaut out! And I was not especially happy with it either. I had the theme for most of the 5 weeks, but just …
I admit it. I quite enjoyed the Fifty Shades of Grey books. It became obvious quite early on that they were going to make a film of them so I decided to try and write a song that I would then send off for consideration for the film. I ended up writing two… As I …
Here’s a song from 2010 that I co-wrote with my friend Alexis who also sings on the track. We sat in my studio and decided to write a song and this is what came out. I really like it. I think the melody works well, the harmonies are straightforward and I’m happy with the instrumentation. …
This is a song from 2008 (I think) with a real (and deliberate) early 80’s feel. Lots of basic synth sounds, drum machine and even a bass solo. There is a fair bit of guitar too – some nice powerchords under the chorus and some more delicate figures too in the instrumental. Also single line …
I wrote this song after going to an Incognito gig in Canary Wharf with my friend Rakhi. Let’s start by saying I really don’t like this recording. It’s muddy and the timing is all over the place. That having been said, if you can see past the inadequacies of the recording itself, I like the …
After last week’s lesson I have made some slight revisions to the first serial miniature for piano. Pat pointed out some things about the registers that I had used and about some of the intervals being bare and ugly , so I have tried to remedy that. But, only slight revisions 🙂 Here’s the new …