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		<title>Digital Skills For Musicians</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Digital skills for musicians; I’m not thinking of the core tools of recording, sequencing and notating, but the apps and services that let you take your music further, to connect with others, to promote your talents, to project your identity and to continually learn.
How’s this: there are 5 main areas of digital skills for musicians [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realstrings.wordpress.com&blog=712180&post=314&subd=realstrings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chord function</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In between prepping scores for an epic Richard Jacques game score and a few pop arrangements, I&#8217;ve (once again) satisfied my craving to make little music movies about the things that light my fire.  This time it&#8217;s chord function.  What a crap name, but the meat of the concept is central to how music works [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realstrings.wordpress.com&blog=712180&post=310&subd=realstrings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So what does a record label do?</title>
		<link>http://realstrings.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/so-what-does-a-record-label-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you follow any of the music advice blogs or twitter streams you&#8217;ll know that it&#8217;s DIY time for musicians.  Record it yourself, release it yourself, promote it yourself; all your own work, no meddling record label.  Build up your fan base and take control.  Anyone would think record labels were a thing of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realstrings.wordpress.com&blog=712180&post=306&subd=realstrings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>real or sampled</title>
		<link>http://realstrings.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/real-or-sampled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it real? Is it true?  It&#8217;s part of the human condition to be fascinated by these questions, as we are animals who thrive on honesty and validity.  And that search for the genuine article is just as prevalent in music (creating and receiving) as in any other human activity.
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		<title>Mission Impossible &#8211; a musical analysis</title>
		<link>http://realstrings.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/mission-impossible-a-musical-analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 06:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The theme to Mission Impossible fascinates me and I&#8217;ve created a short video, exploring its musical language, to try and explain why it works so well.  It&#8217;s a composition that manages to straddle tonality and chromaticism, yet still sound natural, accessible, listenable.
I&#8217;m a big fan of video as a medium to communicate musical discussions, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realstrings.wordpress.com&blog=712180&post=299&subd=realstrings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My predestination</title>
		<link>http://realstrings.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/my-predestination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a lyrics kind of bloke!  My wife can sing me line after line of songs we talk about, while I can barely remember a few words.  I can however, sing her the riffs and countermelodies that make up the arrangement.  In fact, I can listen to a song and wish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realstrings.wordpress.com&blog=712180&post=295&subd=realstrings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Classical Brits &#8211; album of the year 2009</title>
		<link>http://realstrings.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/classical-brits-album-of-the-year-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 14:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick mention for Jon Cohen&#8217;s album for the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards &#8211; Journey.  I wrote briefly about this job last year (strings for 3 tracks were done by realstrings.com) and the album has been voted NSI album of the year in the Classical Brits awards 2009.  I&#8217;ve worked with other artists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realstrings.wordpress.com&blog=712180&post=293&subd=realstrings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>C and F#</title>
		<link>http://realstrings.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/c-and-f/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Musical harmony is a strange and beautiful thing; the relationship between notes and chords is a big part of how music communicates.  Here&#8217;s a short video that tries to show how 2 chords (C and F#) that are seemingly polar opposites, do have a magical connection.

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		<title>Imperial Ice Stars</title>
		<link>http://realstrings.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/imperial-ice-stars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched Cinderella on Ice at The Opera House Manchester the other day, performed by The Imperial Ice Stars.  Sitting as a punter with my family it was a thoroughly captivating experience of stimulii that we&#8217;ve come to expect from live theatre, which (like film) still enjoys healthy ticket sales by, quite simply, delivering good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realstrings.wordpress.com&blog=712180&post=273&subd=realstrings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>double bass</title>
		<link>http://realstrings.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/double-bass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mmmm, how low can you go&#8230;..  Most of the recording that goes on at realstrings.com is violins, violas and cellos.  I guess I&#8217;ve been guilty of ignoring double bass, and worse, I can hear myself say &#8216;oh it&#8217;ll be OK with samples&#8230;&#8217;
 
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