Systems Music

Musical mathematics made easy

and into writing music

making sense of written music

is written music rock'n'roll?

A new book published, A New England dissected

The Art Of Arranging

Ian Gardiner gets out the manuscript paper and tells you how to spread those blobs around

Cut Me Down

Cut Me Down cut up

Edgar G Roover once more joins forces with the Heavenly duo. This month, we're programming the blues.

Making Classic Funk

The fourth part of our dance music series, with more drum patterns and basslines for you to programme yourself.

extended mixing on your Portastudio

Form and Structure

Part 1 Melodies

Arranging sheet music

Rhythmic and Harmonic Structure

Key Ingredients For A Happening Dance Track

An insight into the sounds and structures that make up a successful dance record, by Edgar G. Roover.

And I'll Cry If I Want To

so why can't the band play it properly? songwriters’ psychology made simple

Steamy Rhythms to Warm Up Your Sequencer

The fifth part in our series on programming covers Latin dance rhythms and musical sequences.

how to liven up your music by being open to improvisation

Counter Melody — how to create extra melodies in your music.

Part 10: How to make Counter Melodies

Your Paul Hardcastle Aspirations!

Steve Howell takes up his razor blade once again and explains the basis for extended remixes.

Mozart Meets C-Lab Notator

Proving that hi-tech tools are not the sole preserve of pop musicians, Richard Gonski, Music Director of the Electric Symphony Orchestra, tells how he and Francis Monkman took Mozart's Piano Concerto In C Minor, K.491, and sequenced the whole work using C-Lab's Notator.