Advice and Techniques

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1. A crisis in musical direction...

   By DanJTitchener, April 23, 2020   

   • advice
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   • DanJTitchener
   • April 26, 2020

2. Ever build harmony by stacking down?

   By PeterthePapercomPoser, October 7, 2020
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   • Uhor
   • April 7, 2023

3. Conventions For Writing Long Rests...

   By pateceramics, October 2, 2014   

   • notation
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   • pateceramics
   • October 7, 2014

4. Notating Stuff In A Not Ugly Way?

   By KJthesleepdeprived, April 30, 2015
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   • Rodney Money
   • May 4, 2015

5. Scoring for silent films

   By Anthony Johnson, October 6, 2016
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   • Anthony Johnson
   • October 8, 2016

6. How do you do it? learn it?

   By Asher, February 17, 2006
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   • calcium+vitamin_D
   • August 19, 2006

7. Yo all you CELLISTS out there

   By giselle, July 29, 2006
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   • giselle
   • July 31, 2006

8. What's the hardest thing when writting a fugue?

   By jaimon, September 2, 2006
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   • cmajchord
   • September 29, 2006

9. The mesures of the tones (a theorical study)

   By Dunael, June 6, 2007
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   • M_is_D
   • June 16, 2007

10. Question on Orchestration

    By GoldenPianist, August 31, 2007
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    • Mark
    • September 2, 2007

11. Copyright Advice

    By WaxyD, September 26, 2007
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    • WaxyD
    • September 29, 2007

12. About composing....

    By Musicalgirl, November 15, 2007
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    • joeharmony
    • December 22, 2007

13. Secondary dominants and modulation

    By Pumpernickel, December 18, 2007
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    • Pumpernickel
    • December 25, 2007

14. Writing for Saxophone Quartet 101

    By Apple Charlie, February 23, 2008
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    • ErikL8
    • March 4, 2008

15. Books on polytonality?

    By JoshMc, May 4, 2008
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    • JoshMc
    • May 19, 2008

16. Starting your career as a Composer-Sound Designer FAQ

    By Nathan Madsen, July 26, 2008
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    • Marius
    • October 17, 2008

17. Can a violin be tuned up a half step?

    By JacksonLast, October 3, 2008
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    • Gardener
    • October 4, 2008

18. How much time?

    By w.shipley, October 26, 2008
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    • Patkk
    • November 2, 2008

19. The string section and top-down importance

    By MattGSX, February 24, 2009
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    • Gardener
    • June 15, 2009

20. how to be more barok-classical?

    By The J, April 28, 2009
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    • The J
    • April 29, 2009

21. writing for guitar

    By Geert Van Hoorick, June 6, 2009
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    • Geert Van Hoorick
    • June 20, 2009

22. Chromatic passages: # or b, and when?

    By pold, August 9, 2009
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    • Morivou
    • August 19, 2009

23. Alternate Clefs in Solo Piano Writing?

    By pianoman216, August 23, 2009
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    • Morivou
    • August 25, 2009

24. Horror music techniques..

    By composer14, February 26, 2010
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    • Austenite
    • December 13, 2011

25. Modulation into the Minor Subdominant

    By 11thdimension, May 5, 2010
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    • jawoodruff
    • May 22, 2010