Shirin Delsooz

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I (might) get a sewing machine tonight!

April 19, 2014

Readers, I can’t contain this urge to make clothes anymore! Also, I want a handy skill that doesn’t involve computers! Plus I have so many ideas for clothes I don’t see in stores! Plus it looks like so much fun.

I wrote to a fellow on craigslist selling his sewing machine. He said he will text me tonight to tell me when he can drop it off … stay tuned!

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In my home studio!

April 5, 2014

Oh yes, if this is a place to summarize my life, allow me to put a picture that summarizes my life. This is my life. In this particular instance, I am just about to work on a brand new song that has been playing in my head for a few months now.

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March…

April 1, 2014

Music is an overwhelming world. So I tried to focus on one aspect every month. This March I focussed on drums. I learned about the 40 rudiments of drums, and more on fills, more on how to write drum notation, I analyzed a lot of beats and focused on the drum parts when listening to a song.

Soon it will be April, I will dedicate this month in building my site reading skills on piano. I met a woman in Cuba (from Calgary) that could do this, and it looked like lots of fun, almost liberating to play whatever the paper said. I know how to read fluently, but to play with both hands right away is hard! So I borrowed a few books in the library to build on this skill. I am a fast typer, so I hope that skill somehow helps…

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Something I saw

March 23, 2014

Dear Diary,

Yesterday, on the 55 St. Laurent bus vers nord, a short scrappy type man was causing quite the commotion. He had a beard. Beat up jacket. Stained and strained everything else. He smelled. You could say he did not have a particular home to go to, yet he acted like he had to go somewhere by asking a young atttactive lady if this bus was going to Jarry park.

Then he sat down on a seat and put his head down on the next seat. He got bored of that after two seconds so he grabbed the bus pole and started humping to it and dancing erotically. He went up and down and even laid down. “Nice moves!” Said a jockish-hipster type man.

My stop was coming very shortly. Then I left before things got out of hand.

Then I went home and worked on music.

The end.

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Tips on Music Composition For EDM

February 28, 2014

 

Below I have listed all the things I’m currently doing to improve on my music arrangement/composition ability. I am happy to receive any feedback or advice on what you recommend and what works for you.
 
1. You must master the fundamentals of music theory.
 
2. free-midi.org. See how other songs are arranged. Download the midi and open them up on music notation software like Sibelius. Here you will clearly see what is going on with every part in a theoretical manner. This is a user submitted website, so these are not perfect, but they are still good. Also, 99% are well known hits, so you won’t find any of your obscure favourites here.
 
3. Photocopy music scores at the library. You will see the official licensed version of a song. But they usually give you the piano/voice arrangements. But it’s not bad to see different arrangements for learning sometime. You need to see how the drums, effects, harmonies and everything else come together.
 
4. Download finished music files for your software. I bought a few from http://dancemidisamples.com/ and they were quite good!
 
5. Traditional music. This is what worked only for me. Trad music is the original dance music, Celtic, klezmer, etc. See what makes people move with as little as 1-3 acoustic instruments! They didn’t have filters, oscillators, or anything like that back then. They did the job with pure organic sounds.
 
6. Listen to your favourite songs over and over and over and over again. On the first listen, concentrate on the drums. On the second, concentrate on the bass. On the third listen, concentrate on the guitars, etc.
 
7. Take one of your semi finished songs to a professional musician to see what they can add to it.

 

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