While traveling and visiting different schools in Europe, I noticed, that these days classical guitar teachers let students to improvise and compose their own piece more than before. That’s a very good tendency! I do it regularly with my students already for several years. Recently I gave a lecture, during which I spoke to teachers […]
read moreThought about improving my piano playing skills and… Wrote a “waltz” piece for piano solo! 🙂 One of the ways to learn any instrument is to “talk” to it, to discover it and to understand how it works (how sound is produced). Then to write a small easy pretty piece for it. That’s how that […]
read more… STYLE. Want to imitate a certain style of music? I found a few basic ways how is possible to do that, put them in a step by step way and would like to share it with you. Learn which instruments (1) are used to make music in that style. Which rhythms (2) are typical? […]
read morePreparing a presentation for Tallinn Guitar Festival. In that presentation I will try to show the importance of teaching composition to small kids and adults. Looking back in history, when each player was also a composer, and learning from our predecessors is an access to a lot of joy when playing an instrument.
read moreI remember how my jazz guitar teacher, who also gave me my first lessons in composition, told me: “Dmitri, write down all your musical ideas and melodies, never throw them away – you might need them in future.” So I did. Recently, looking through old papers, I found an entire piece that I wrote in 2014, […]
read moreSoon, in the end of June, will be recorded and published my guitar duo piece “Un Rêve”. Inspired a little bit by Indian pop music, as well as African rhythms it was written in 2016 winter, when I was living in Geneva. The theme was written while I was watching out of my 5th floor […]
read moreSomeone can impress you for a several of times with a perfect technique, virtuosity, drumming, strumming and all other athletic stuff on an instrument. But it’s all is short-lasting. The real power of a piece is in a melody. A melody, that is singable, swinging and expressive. If you are able to write such a […]
read moreI would like my music to serve at least three purposes: 1. To be educational (that it would contain information about a distant places and cultures; connected to history) 2. That it would have something, that one can think of and discuss, as well as 3. Purely for aesthetical pleasure while listening to it (relaxing, […]
read more… a DIALOG. It opens many opportunities how to compose a piece as well as puts certain game rules. In case of a two instrument composition it is very beautiful when one instrument “asks” and other “answers”, one “proposes” and other “rejects” or “accepts”.
read moreI had a chance to study with very good musicians. One of them was my orchestration teacher. He taught me to pay more attention to instrumentation and orchestration. Through him I again discovered the art of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (couple of year ago I visited his home – now a museum, – in Saint-Petersburg, sensed a […]
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