So, the middle of last November I started doing some thinking and designing and putting some C# classes together in a library. It was a bit of a false start as I’ll explain, so this year I started the project afresh with the benefit of what I’d learned...

Despite having studied some fairly highbrow harmony textbooks, it was actually the Beatles book (listed in the previous post) that prompted me to start distilling what I was learning into software. I’m sure I saw a quote once which said that a program...

Voices - your songwriting studio Welcome to Voices! Before you learn how to use the software to write great songs you’ll need to know, at a minimum, some music theory and sight-reading essentials. I believe you’ll also need to understand the principles...

Voices is the name of a personal software project I’m developing. When it’s done it will tutor, train and test anyone who wants to know more about music theory. I was going to say ‘music students’ but I think music is one of those disciplines (like IT...

Welcome to my web log! I've been putting this off because I wasn't sure I’d have much content. But, on reflection, my job and Voices (my personal software project) will probably give me enough to talk about. I’ll introduce Voices in the next post. So...