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I believe this is the site that you're talking about: Musipedia

Are you looking for beginner books for writing ambient music or for basic musical concepts?

He may have had sort of small hands, (his hand casts can attest to this) but I've also heard his hands were structured in a weird way; he had virtually no connective tissue in-between his fingers so they could stretch out and span over a greater distance than normal.

The second one is Cavatina by Stanly Myers, from the film "The Deer Hunter".

There is no shortage of sixteenth notes in Paganini's 16th Caprice. If you think you can handle it then try to find a transcription for alto sax.

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And what about Russians and their reuse of the Tetris theme? :laugh:

Variation is a very important part of musical composition. When you have mastered it, you can take a simple 20 second theme and turn it into a full length composition. There are numerous ways to add variation to a theme so it is best that you practice them thoroughly.

Hasn't the theme in Paganini's 24th caprice been reused enough? :P What your instructor is telling you to do is most likely just for an exercise, and it certainly is a good exercise to take another's work and create variations for it if you can't think of your own themes. There are plenty of well known and enjoyable pieces that are in theme and variation form, so no, it's not just a format to use for exercise.

Just a quick question, what chord progressions haven't been used? :P

The people who listen to Pachelbel's canon hours on end and enjoy it are probably the same people that listen to Fur Elise, the Turkish rondo, and a condensed version of Ode to Joy (because the actual movement is too "long") and NOTHING else in the classical music realm. Yet they claim to "love" classical music. Pachelbel wrote some pretty nice pieces for the organ. Here's one of them.

Guess which piece I hate. Here's a hint.

In one of Paganini's concertos he instructs the soloist to tune his violin up a half step so that it sounds as if he's playing in E flat major when he's using the fingering for D major. So yes, it is possible and has been done before.

I think this thread needs to be revived. Yes, musical humour.

It's done the same way as entering fingering on a normal staff. Just make sure that the articulation tool is selected, hold down the number of the finger you want on your keyboard (eg. 2 for the second finger) then click on the note you want.