These things are what I am doing at the moment. I run a productions company called Alius Productions. I do mostly producing and recording for my time. It consists of people coming for rehearsal interviews consist of seeing where the artist is at then taking to them to the next level in music by teaching and coaching. Now some come into the studio with a set plan. I turn noone away. Unfortunetly a person only has so much time :( Im working with professionals who are ready to cut records and also. I still coach a few sessions before I acually record because it also gives me time to plan out how Im going to make the needs of this band artist whomever it may be. I think all the way down to the mixing and mastering before I even hit record. A lot of my music on my pages were one takes but my company is at the point where the demand is to get the best recording possible. So in doing this it takes planning. You go step by step. Its good to have an order of the way you do things before a person steps into your studio. It makes things run a lot quicker. I use to be hours trying to get things right ending having to record because it wasnt planned out. I feel that is so important it saves on time. Get em in and get em out and mix and master and be done. Now on Composing I havent been doing that much lately unless it my studio with someone Im collaborating with which is many. I do a lot of file tranfer type stuff so I get files from around the world. Now lately I been doing more local. I like the one on one contact. I also for my enjoyment love getting these file to use thier creativity and add mine. It relaxes me. To be honest in writing I dont do that much anymore but do teach it to anyone who needs help following, timing/bpms,keys,notes of the key ect....A lot of people play by ear. Them ones I just show where to play and tell them the notes and teach or guide in that way. I get em playing to anything real fast most times. I work with some great artists. The benefit from all this is yours always learning! They teach you teach them we all win. Now for writing tracks I do that quickly. I just play around slowly and finding good and I like to play odd chords. I search till I find a set that go good. A good key to writing is knowing your keys. Know what chords/notes played in a set of maybe just 4 chords then a change up of three other chords making up same key or not doesnt matter but always know what key the music is in. First ya practice something like that til you get it sounding right the changes the time. Hint while playing dont just do what I call standard but 4/4 timing. (Most Rock Coutry ect uses 4/4 timing. Ya change it up by only counting to two then maybe the next chord four and maybe the next chord back to 2 and toss one in at a three count As you go write down what you like and sounds good. Repeating partners you made. I dont usually play patterns much I just go with the flow.. Now I take it to a classical level most everything I play I add an arpeggio. I hope this gives you an idea of how to be a better writer by not knowing much about theory. People who know Theory this will be a cakewalk How I play now is I say ok for instance it in the key of D. I know all the notes of D down the fret board. Which you can easy change doing the same patterns if you know by jumping up a full step. Now instead of a D you are now playing an E. Now one thing that always helped me is know B and C are a half step a part and E and F are a half step apart. Everything else is a full step. Notes are ABCDEFG back to A. Sharps and flats in between. Im just trying to throw things out there on every level. Some of this is basic knowledge but for the person who reads this I hope they get something out of it. I will post more later. This is my favorite club and will give more insight on many things when I have time. Much love to all!!! Love prevails! Jesus Rocks! Thanks for taking the time to read this. Sincerely, Michael Patteen Get a cool scroller sign at SpaceFaith.com

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