Hey guys. I am a trailer music composer. Podcaster. Illustrator. Writer. Educator. Husband. Father. And a huge fan of coffee
I recently wrote a little manifesto/pep-talk to myself because I'd been struggling with a bout of self-doubt, which had turned into questioning my purpose. I've included it below. Dear Rich, I know how you feel. It’s scary to feel alone. To feel like there...
You have just sat down to write a new piece of music, opened up a new session in Logic Pro X, sat at your keyboard and hit record. The trouble used to be that your recording was out of time. Not any more. You can just quantize it and it...
My mind is often overactive. Some evenings I sit to relax and hear an audible click as my mind switches on. Like someone just turned on the production line at a factory. I can actually hear cogs turning and footsteps as the workers arrive. Their voices getting louder and louder....
[Here's the video transcript] My track 'Thread of Time' recently landed on a trailer for the video game, The Lost Ark. They've just done an update called the 'Artist' series. And they used my track 'Thread of Time'. In this...
the Tempo or speed of a piece of music is one of the seven core elements of music. In order to create music we need to be able to understand and control those elements. In this post, I show you how to change the tempo in Logic Pro X. Change...
Ever since I started out on my music career I have wanted to sell my music to my fans. I mean isn't that what we all want? The only thing is that my fans were my clients and the representatives I chose to work with; producers, publishers etc....
Imagine that our creative life is like a woodland: established ideas and patterns are the trees that dominate the landscape, and new ideas are the seedlings and saplings on the woodland floor. It’s all too easy to overlook the new shoots and seedlings that are growing beneath our feet....
Most of us work with MIDI every single time that we create music and some of us only use MIDI. This makes it even more important that I highlight these 5 MIDI hacks you are not using enough. 1. Select All The Same Pitches This is really useful when you...