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Arranging Reaper Sibelius

Music Soundtrack Example

I’ve put together another video on YouTube. This one is focused on the music, not the video. The music is an original composition for potential use as background music to a video — a soundtrack. For the sounds used, I used instruments from Komplte 8 Ultimate. There are 2 Massive tracks (Blue in Grey and […]

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Arranging Reaper Sibelius

From arrangement to recording

After considerable difficulty with video cap and editing software, I’ve finally gotten two new videos done. I decided to make an arrangement. I did it in Sibelius 7 and Reaper. The first video shows the process of making the arrangement. This arrangement was for violin, cello, piano, guitar, bass and drums. The 2nd video shows […]

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Arranging General Piano Lessons

Introduction to Chords, part 6

Another in our Introduction to Chords video series is now on YouTube. This video takes a look at chord progressions – the flow of chords from one type to the other. Comments and more importantly, suggestions for future videos are welcome. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNqpv3Q6_eM?hl=en&fs=1] Enjoy the series.  

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General Website News

New addition to the cataog

We’ve added a new instrumental mp3 by the G-Flat Group to the catalog. Going Around In Circles A double-length mp3, electronic sounding, ambient, environment piece. Many recordings these days use 24, 36 or more tracks before making a final stereo mp3 file. This piece consists of two tracks with a third, rhythm track generated by […]

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General Piano Lessons

Introduction to Chords, Part 5

Part 5 of our introduction to chord series is now available on youtube. This video talks about altered chords, sus and added note chords (eg. C6/9) [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G30C2eZuj8I?hl=en&fs=1] Hope you enjoy it.