Review of Hans Zimmer’s Master Class—what I learned
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Review of Hans Zimmer’s Master Class—what I learned
Bruce Hornsby did not start piano until he was 17 years old, yet he remains one of the most important pianists of the 21st century, as he established a sound that is his own. It is a clever blending of the Americana side of jazz that you hear in some of Keith Jarrett's work, a big influence on him, as well as that pure cinematic western landscape t... See more
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Hans Zimmer’s advice to musicians:
I think you have to have a lot of courage and a certain amount of foolishness to want to become a musician. You have to be completely and utterly insane and passionate at the same time, because to make a living as a musician is very difficult. On the other hand, to live a playful life, the way a musician does, is m
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Music done right captures a resonance between math and language.
Harmony/rhythm is basically a space/time language that is mathematical (an octave is a unit of space, a measure is a unit of time, and it’s all about how you carve and layer within those units). Lyrics are obviously the linguistic half of it. In the most basic songs, a nice poem is la
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