The tips will start recycling in a few days. Keep an eye out for ‘em.

- Gary

I’m missing some of the daily tips and I was wondering when you’ll start the recycling process. I’ll appreciate it if you could please keep me informed.
Thanks

Baba

- Gary

Just wanted to thank you for those daily tips. They are very informative and fun
Please keep writing them.
Baba

Thank you so much for finding time out of your very busy schedule to pen down these useful and informative daily tips. I find them very educational and informative. Please keep it coming.

Thanks

Baba

I’m glad you’re enjoying them.

- Gary

I find your little tips very useful and invalueable. Please keep it coming.

Thanks

Baba

Happy New Year to you as well! It’s funny you should request this now. The first of this year, I was planning on introducing a new feature to the site, where I would be posting a few “good words” on a daily or semi-daily basis. But I’m swept up in too much work at the moment and unfortunately have to postpone that plan. I may try to start that up later in the month if possible.

In the meantime, keep on composing!

- Gary

Happy new year !
I was just wondering if you have any new year good words for composers like me. It could be on any topic or subject.
Thanks
Baba

We’re glad you’re enjoying Secret Composer. Regarding the statement about changing keys as an alternative to chord progressions, I don’t think I’ve suggested that exactly. I think I may have suggested that you can use a chord progression and then modulate that progression to a different key. This will get you more mileage out of the same chord progression. By modulation to a new key, you bring new life to old material.

But keep in mind that some key modulations bring a fresher sound to the music than others. For example, if you’re in the key of C major, you will not achieve that much of a different sound if you move to the key of F major. But if you move from C major to Eb or E major, you will create more of a sense of change.

You bring up an interesting question when you ask if I change key signatures every time I change keys. I think my answer might not be the same answer that you would get from the world of academia. They would suggest that you change key signatures every time you change keys for more than a few bars.

I tend to not like key signatures. Because I write in a more modern style than traditional classical music, I usually don’t stay in the same key for very long. And when I do stay in one key for a while, I use many accidentals not found in the key signature. So I just use sharps, flats and naturals in my scores – note by note as they arise. But to be truthful, I do sometimes use key signatures if I am staying in the same key for a long time and the music is mostly diatonic.

Hope this helps.

- Gary