I was listening to Gather, one of my favourite songs by Di recently and I felt the mix was a bit of a barrier to entry. I would have liked to have mixed it differently. Thanks to a couple of AI tools I was able to extract several individual tracks from the original mix – … Read more
In the previous video I took a snippet of instrumental and built it into a groove to use as the backing for a song. In this one I start building it into a song.
Background It’s been a long time since I’ve written a song by the ‘traditional’ method of sitting with a guitar and making something up from chords, then adding words. Not that I don’t like that method, but now I prefer doing that with someone rather than alone. On songwriting workshops I’ve done that usually leads … Read more
I’ve just come to the end of a campaign to launch my new album. I’m writing the story here in case it’s of use to anyone in a similar position – an older artist with a small audience who wants to promote an album. I’ve done two previous album launches since I got into the … Read more
A few weeks ago I was staying with friends in London and remarked that I couldn’t foresee writing any more songs. Not that I was giving up my whole music career, but just that I had enough unfinished songs and snippets of music and lyrics that I’d never really need to visit the ‘starting from … Read more
Here’s the interview which Bobo Lavorgna in Connecticut invited me to take part in. We talk about childhood music, songwriting, lockdown, the Edinburgh scene and lots of other stuff. And the Beat Goes On Thanks Bobo for a great chat!