composition – Page 48 – a hundred quirky legs

Composition Exercise #85

Have somebody sponsor the chorus of your song.

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Write a piece in traditional notation. Cut it up bar by bar and put each bar into a fortune cookie. Hand them out to the audience.

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Resist the urge to be Hans Zimmer.

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Train yourself to ignore the clickbait, online and off.

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Untangle a pair of headphones for several minutes, on stage, in front of an open microphone.

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Spill a pot of marbles in an underground parking lot.

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Sit down to work on music for an hour. At the end, write yourself a bill. How much do you charge?

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A/B-test your compositional approaches.

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Beef up a sine wave.

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Make an effort to love music that doesn’t make it easy for you.

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