Making a piece in a new key

Modulation, Intros and Passing Notes

Rhythms

Learn to make rhythms by using chords

Chord Symbols

Intervals and Cadences

Forming a Major Scale

Treble & Bass explained

Scales and hints on pedal playing

Scales in their various forms, including Major, Minor and Chromatic, and some helpful hints for pedal board players.

Forming Left Hand Chords

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

Part 10: How to make Counter Melodies

Reading note values for correct timing and fingering

Rick Palmer votes for volts

Electronic Musical Keyboard

Atari ST Software

Already proven on the Macintosh, Passport's popular scorewriting program makes the transition to the humble ST. Ian Waugh likes the score and goes back for more.

Software for the Atari ST

Notorious for the numerical approach of their programs, Dr T's have incorporated GEM friendliness in their latest Atari ST sequencer and scorewriter. Ian Waugh reckons it's purrfect for those on a tight budget.

A panoramic Paul White explains where sounds should be placed in the stereo image during your final mix.

Atari ST Software

One of software's greatest strengths is its ability to evolve. Ian Waugh looks at the refinements now available in one of the most popular sequencing/notation packages.

sequencer for the PC

For many people, the definitive sequencing software for the PC has yet to be written. Could this be it?

Leading new wave synthesist Ian Boddy explains the way he uses 'track sheets' when undertaking a recording.

Paul Young's Tomb Of Memories analysed track by track

Computer Musician in Rock

BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Radiophonically speaking

(But Were Too Afraid To Ask!)

PART 4: Martin Russ provides some solid examples of how to utilise the hidden power of MIDI’s SysEx commands to reprogramme synths on-the-fly and to store snapshots of all your synth and effects patches on disk.

Although Michael Nyman's name and music became known through Peter Greenaway's extraordinary films, Prospero's Books may see not just the peak but also the end of their creative partnership. But Nyman has other strings to his bow, as Mark J. Prendergast discovers.