exercise – Page 10 – a hundred quirky legs

Composition Exercise #249

Follow the Lieder.

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Design and release a signature metronome.

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Practice composition in front of a mirror.

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Create a scratch and sniff score.

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Do you spend enough time making music
and not enough talking about it, or
do you spend enough time talking about music
and not enough making it?

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Attribute melodies to spots in your neighborhood and hum them every time you pass them by.

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Climate spirituals.

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Stop preaching to the choir. Just sing.

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State your mission

as an artist

in one essay,

then one page,

one paragraph,

one sentence,

a single word,

a fierce ululation,

a profound silence.

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Find the unnecessary parts in your piece and remove them.

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