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Some songwriters just wait for inspiration, those are not likely to succeed. Inspiration comes as a result of work; to get inspired you have to work hard and practice. So, how can you practice songwriting?! The habit of sitting down to actually think about a subject, to look up words in rhyme dictionaries, to play the piano for just the right chord...etc. All this is just the habit of practicing. As you practice more, HIT IDEAS will suddenly come to you out of the blue!! Writing hit songs is the inspiration that you worked hard to get. For example, you might spend a lot of nights wearing your brains out writing melodies (that is practicing, and organizing your songwriting thoughts), and then while shopping for shoes an amazing melody starts echoing in your head: That's your hit song. This means that practicing doesn't get you hit songs or hit ideas, instead it trains your brain to function better musically and to become more aware of "songwriting potential...

I'm The head producer for Technica Projections. My music making experience extents beyond 20 years, through trial, error and frustration. Back in the early 90's It was a lot tougher than it is now. At that time the making electronic music with a computer was in its early stages. Now days The software, tutorials and the help of other producers has made the journey a little easier. To get started You will need a sequencer,some vsti's a Midi controller and a decent soundcard.We have experienced many of the sequencers on the market.Cubase, Logic, sonar, Acid Pro, Ableton. We have found that ableton Live best suits our needs.All the sequencers basically do the same thing.Its just a matter of whats most confortble to you. We have found that Ableton Live suits our needs the best. The next thing you need is some vsti's.These are virtualy instruments,which we will play just like a piano with our midi controller.We then open up our chosen sequencer, load a vsti and st...

Tired of searching for a program that will convert your voice and music recordings to MIDI files? Then 7Canaries Professional is the software you are looking for. "7Canaries Professional retrieves music score from audio recordings. It takes a standard WAVE file as input, then processes it and outputs standard MIDI file. It allows to get several voices (up to 9). The program works with pre-recorded files, and there are user-adjustable parameters to enhance the quality of conversion. 7Canaries Professional contains interactive VisiNote Editor(tm), which is absent in 7Canaries Standard. "7Canaries performs automated recognition of polyphonic music, stored in MP1, MP2, MP3, MPP, MPA, AIF, SND, AU, WAVE formats as well as audio CD tracks. In real-time mode it instantly converts music coming through the microphone or line input of your computer into a MIDI sequence. 7Canaries Professional contains interactive Note Editor. "Recognizing pre-recorded music allows con...

by Dan Goodwin However accomplished and experienced you are in your creative writing, there's always more to learn and discover. There's no such thing as becoming the perfect creative writer. All of us can continue to learn, explore and experiment and give our creative writing more depth, impact and fulfilment, for us as the writer, as well as for our readers. So here are 7 killer tips to help you boost YOUR creative writing even more: 1. Adopt a new identity. Imagine you're someone else, someone completely different from yourself. It could be a character you're familiar with already from a book, film or your daily life, or a completely new creation. Write from their perspective about what they do, who they see, how they live and what it's like to be them. Notice how your creative writing develops to take on this new character. 2. Become an inanimate object. Take on the perspective of an object, like a stone on a river bed, a chair in a cafe or a...