An ambitious new year's resolution

[marnen]

I have made an ambitious new year's resolution for 2007, which I hope I will be able to keep. In an effort to increase the amount of composition I do, I am attempting to keep a "musical diary" of sorts -- that is, I will be trying to compose a short piano piece each day.

There may be exceptions. I don't mind stretching a larger piece out over 2 days, and I might write some pieces for some other instrument than piano. I also don't know yet if I'll enforce this on days when I do a significant amount of other composition. But it seems like an interesting project.

I'll probably put up a website about this at some point, and possibly another LJ for the project as well. But in the meantime, here's the first entry. Wish me luck!

Comments

[marnen.livejournal.com]

Hey there! Missed you too...we should really get together next time it's possible.

For composition, I either use pencil and paper or direct entry into Finale. Mac OS X will print anything to a PDF file...look in the standard Print dialog.

If you want to improve your ability to get stuff written down as you hear it, do some musical dictation exercises.