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Simon Rushby - musician and songwriter

Simon Rushby blogs about all kinds of music - his own and other people's.

Can you teach someone to write music?

Posted on Thursday July 2nd, 2009 at 16:52 in teaching, student, creativity, Creative, composition, songwriting, teacher, songwriter, songs, melody, rhythm, harmony

How do you teach someone to be creative? I've been working on a project with some 13 year olds at my school, using logic pro to write a short piece based on three or four chords and some basic rhythms. Having given them the important info about chor...