SSC

Marsbars:

From what we've talked, it seems to me the most adequate thing to do would be to first work on a little simple composition exercises.

The first exercise I like to do in these sort of situations, so I can get to know you better, is that you write something based entirely on how it sounds to you.

That is to say, write for any instrument or group of instruments, but the most important thing is that you write entirely "by ear". Don't write a piece, just fragments, ideas, or sketches of what you think sounds cool , interesting, etc.

I already saw some of you work, so I'm aware that you have some basic knowledge. But for this particular exercise,forget all you know about music (so to speak) and just "wing it" based entirely on how you think it sounds better to you.

The reason for this exercise is, like I said, so I can get to know you better as a composer which is crucial or we won't get any work done. If I say anything else, I may end up influencing you so I'll explain more as we go along.

Remember, don't try to write pieces, just sketches, fragments, it doesn't matter how long or short. It's only important that you do it all by ear. Help yourself with the computer, piano, or whatever other instruments (or ways to produce sound at all) you have.

The result you can post as a MIDI (or any other such sound file, as mp3, etc) as well as PDF, specially if you did it on the computer. Don't worry about the MIDI (If you picked that) sounding bad, that's not a problem.

Try to have somethin' at least by next week, but there's no rush if you don't~

If there are any questions, feel free to post them here, naturally.