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TLT, you are awesome.  Edit: Sorry, forgot to mention creativity. There must be no creativity. The time for that has passed. Unless you are on your deathbed and can guarantee that the last note will be written with your dying breath. Your other option is to come back as a ghost and possess some innocent soul to write the music for you.
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Unless you are on your deathbed and can guarantee that the last note will be written with your dying breath. Your other option is to come back as a ghost and possess some innocent soul to write the music for you. Someone else already had that idea: Just went to a play last night by Mark Twain (a dead writer) and David Ives (a living playwright): Is He Dead?. It was performed by live actors (thankfully), but obviously with no creativity, since they were just repeating the words written by someone else. From the review: The preposterous plot focuses on a real artist, Jean-Francois Millet, whose masterworks included "The Sower" and "The Angelus." Although a genius, Millet is depicted as unrecognized and starving. Knowing how dead artists are revered, his three fellow artists hit on the idea of faking Millet's death and raking in the cash. Surprisingly funny.
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First of all I would like to reassure everyone here that I am a triangle and piano player of the *female* variety. Probably everyone knows what that means, but anyone who is unsure may please speak up, and I'll let them know. My education in anatomy was far more detailed than that on history.
I'm strangely aroused...
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PS: When today's new age guys die they then become tomorrows classic guys...??
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Nope, they become tomorrow's old age guys.
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Try some scales. Works for me every time.
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Ten left thumbs sorry reassign your gender earlier  I do try to get it right if possible :-/ Try some scales. Works for me every time. Good advice. Arpeggios are even more effective. For goodness sake don't play any Beethoven. That was a scary story Elissa! The hands on shoulders thing is ... <shivers> Sorry to do away with you earlier in the thread but it's the tyranny of deadness for composers - what can we do? An ancient nun made me play a rather aweful piece called The Angelus when I was young. I found my old copy recently and played it through and wondered how any adult could like such a monster of dull writing, although as a kid I remember playing it to death - I wonder if that is why I have had an aversion to F major and Bflat major ever since. They say that early experiences are powerful. Gidday to all ABFers on this lovely Aussie morning. it's a pleasure to hang out with you all on this Awesome Thread 
![[Linked Image]](http://www.runemasterstudios.com/graemlins/images/cloud.gif) Composers manufacture a product that is universally deemed superfluous—at least until their music enters public consciousness, at which point people begin to say that they could not live without it. Alex Ross.
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Try some scales. Works for me every time. I did the E flat scale today...thanks!
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