Composition

How I composed ‘On Christmas Day’

Here's the piece -https://youtu.be/C3q4kGkKcEk It was early Christmas Day 2020, and I was going about doing normal things, preparing for...

Composer Cat - or should it be called 'Cat Attack'?

Haha ... no, the cat did not really compose anything! My cat, Oscar, couldn't care less about this piece, because cats are like that!...

How I compose music for the piano - complete with real examples from two of my pieces

Is it difficult to compose a piece for piano? Does it take hours, days, weeks or months? Do we have to be ‘inspired’ at the start, or can...

Things we want to do - easy or hard?

What makes us think that anything we want to do is going to be easy to achieve, or hard for that matter, or anywhere in-between? I reckon...