I’m a city guy. I like to visit the country, but at heart, I am a city guy. One day while reading the Sunday paper I grabbed the help wanted section and joked, “there’s never any music jobs in the paper”….. I was wrong. The ad headline said, “music producer wanted for growing Wisconsin based publisher”. Well, I was curious. So I sent my resume’ and after talking with the creative director, I found myself driving to Minocqua, Wisconsin to “C” this operation myself.

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     Where does it come from?

I Like to think I write good melodies.  Where do they originate?  How do they transend from beginning to ending?  Or do the best melodies come to the composer in final form?  Are melodies some magical sequence of notes or are they more mathematical in nature?  Why do people differ in their creation of great melodies?  As you can tell, I have more questions than answers on this topic. Read the rest of this entry »