Stimulating Your Innate Creativity

Creativity is Built-in      Some people may say that they are not the creative type or that they are not "feeling it" or are "uninspired". But what we have to come to terms with is that we are all creative. We use it in our everyday lives in some way or another to do some sort …

Creative Tips For Starting to Compose Music

     Making a song from scratch may sound like a daunting task if you consider all the things that go into making music. But if you follow some of the tips I will be suggesting in this post, you will find this process a lot easier and less prone to creative bumps along the road. Some …

8 Practical Ways of Using Parallel Chord Motion in Your Music

     In this post, I will be proposing eight ways that you can use this technique. Each has a different feel or vibe so, you will have to choose depending on the harmonic effect you are going for. This particular harmonic technique consists in moving a chord or a harmonic interval and maintain the relative …

Chromatic Harmony: Using Chromatic Mediants and Chord Transformations

     In this post I will be telling you what chromatic mediants and chord transformations are and how you can use these techniques to create chromatic harmony in your music compositions. I will also be showing you some examples of these techniques in the context of the music I am composing for the Follow No One …

Where Do Musical Ideas Come From?

     This is probably a question that will always be open for debate as each and every one of us listens to and thinks about music differently. Nonetheless, all boils down to a musician’s ability of hearing sounds in its head.      This is nothing strange if you think that a chef imagines tastes and aromas, or …

What to do with Modal Interchange

     In this post we will be looking at some practical uses for modal interchange. First of all, what is it? This is a technique that consists in temporarily borrowing chords from a parallel tonality or mode that shares the same root without abandoning the established key.      Using this technique is a great way of …