Week 40 - Finishing a replication of a piano piece using Sibelius.
1. Stuff done this week Finished working on a song called Lay Me Down . Last thursday I presented it to the band and started to arrange it together. Great to have the other instruments coming together. I used a rather odd chord in the bridge : C#DAE. Either this is an suspended D chord with a C# in the bass, or an A major (AC#E) chord with an added D. I am not sure how to make sense of this, but musically I think it sounds good. I like the tinge of dissonance. Found some old footage from a radio show with my band: Radio interview "De Mannen van Maandag" I've worked through the examples in the OCA course. One of them is a "beaming" exercise. This is my solution, and it is - clever me - also the correct answer! The music theory exercise up till now are not difficult; it makes me feel good, that I am starting to get an elementary grasp of reading music. So, using all my Sibelius skills learned so far, I worked on my first assignment for the Mus...