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2+2=5 Composer : 84 strategies and prompts for innovative music making [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

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84 direct and practical prompts and strategies to inspire innovative music making.

When you are looking to create something a little bit different but don’t know exactly what to do, this book gives lots of practical suggestions and options to progress with your music and to make your composition stand out from the rest.

It’s a book to have with you at practice, jam sessions or in the studio to refer to and give you new inspiration to complete a new musical composition.

It is full of clever and innovative suggestions to aid the contemporary composer and musician

Some ways to use this book :-

Open a page at random to help when you a are stuck, like asking a friend or band mate for an idea.
Read a prompt and apply your own interpretation to it. How creative can you get from the starting point? Can it be applied in another way?
Use one prompt as a basis for a new song
Combine and apply several prompts chosen at random as the basis for a new song
Read a technique and and learn about it thus increasing your musical palette and vocabulary.
Use as a reminder of possible other options when you keep going down the same route.
Using the terms and ideas as a basis for further research
This book uses a lot of techniques found in the body of work of the band Radiohead, but they can be applied to all genres of music and music making
This book discusses mostly the key of C (all the white notes on the piano). If you want to use other keys, you can start in C and shift all the music up or down to shift keys.
This book utilises a learning methodology called ‘Retrieval practice” - where you try recall information. Research has shown that retrieval practice is much more effective than constantly being told something repeatedly.

Foreword
There we were sat around a darkly-lit kitchen table littered with empty crisp packets and half eaten meal deal sandwiches with guitars in our hands. Me, the amateur guitarist, getting as much advice as I could from Andrew about ways of being different with making music and techniques for making something sound original and fresh instead of using the same old chord transitions and key changes. I noticed that night that Andrew had a head full of creativity and seemed to look at music in a way that I had never seen before. That night, I saw a mind at work that looked beyond the surface of the music, a mind that saw past the rules and rhythms of simple guitar playing and shared ideas that completely changed the way something sounded. I thought then, that Andrew needed to share these ideas with everyone, so it’s only right that he has made this book. This is his world of creativity laid out in a simple accessible form, aimed at musicians of all levels. Keep it close while you create, and I promise that you will never be short of that next great idea ever again.
-Sam Ezra

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Jjtaberner

Chapter-headings offered as 'Innovative prompts'

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 January 2021

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I have struggled to find anything positive to say about this book. The book contains 'gems' such as "Octave Jumps" or "Dorian Mode" ... no, not as chapter-headings which one would hope would thereafter, enfold into some pleasing personal insight, example, or encouraging story ... but nope, that's it... Innovative prompt 75, for example, offers - "Dorian Mode"; and Innovative prompt 77 offers 'Octave Jumps'. That's right - two words occupying the entire page. This approach is repeated throughout. I have many songwriting books which I turn to for encouragement and direction. This sadly, will not be one of them. This approach might work better as a pack of cards intended for a songwriter's gathering where one might be dealt a card and given an hour to produce a song. But as it stands ... dear reader, IMO, unless your absolutely clueless or are looking for a coffee-table filler, put your money elsewhere. Anywhere. Jimmy.

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Kriss

Great ideas made very, very simple.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 August 2020

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This book is incredible. Simple ideas that are easy to understand and execute and will take your songwriting to the next level.

It has changed the way I write, and it'll do it for you, too.

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Michela D

Endless possibilities

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 July 2020

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The right combination of practical and sophisticated prompts. This book looks great on a phone but can be accessed on any device. It is great for overcoming 'feeling stuck' whilst composing and can be used to make a jam session more interesting. It can help with creating original developments of any musical endeavour. All tecniques can be used and combined with infinite possibilities...

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"bungleaio"

Lots of inspiration

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 July 2020

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Loads of really good ideas to make my music making better. All laid out in a simple to pick up and use format.

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Gavin Chamberlain

Great inspirational ideas! Achieve anything with this handy book at hand!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 December 2020

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Some absolute gems in this book! Use and abuse at your hearts content. A perfect collection of ideas and inspiration to 'up your game' when composing. I particularly enjoyed points 18 and 26 ;)
Keep it close for those 'lost' moments and it will not disappoint. If you put your mind to it along with this book you can achieve anything.

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