LARRY GOLDINGS: Composing Tips & Tools

• Avoiding stock sounds, devices, and structures
  
  
• Giving yourself limitations in order to avoid writing predictable ideas (i.e. avoiding the 2-5-1 progression)
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• The importance of analyzing great compositions (of any genre) in order to apply the concepts to your writing
  
  
• Writing away from your instrument or on an instrument you barely play
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• The importance of quickening your ears, i.e. your ability to play what you hear, recognize chords and intervals when you hear them etc.
  
  
• Choosing key centers that you tend to avoid. One is bound to hear certain ideas in the key of B that they may not hear in the key of F. Keys have colors.

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Larry Goldings is a Grammy-nominated pianist, keyboardist, composer, and songwriter. Besides his organ trio with Peter Bernstein and Bill Stewart, Larry's talents have been sought-after by John Scofield, Michael Brecker, James Taylor, John Mayer, Charlie Haden, Steve Gadd, Herbie Hancock and many more.

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