Introduction

Welcome to my new web site
Those of you that are looking for the sheet music arrangements, you can find these here.

The site will be completely redesigned to not only feature my downloadable sheet music, but it will also carry news from a variety of useful sources about composing and arranging.

Please leave a comment if you have a suggestion for sites that have feeds that could be included.

Squarewave Parade: Fine boutique gear you can actually buy

I'm always talking about my name and citysake Tom Bugs, but his cool stuff always sells out within hours of being announced. Meanwhile, Squarewave Parade have a shop full of cool-looking things, like the Safeplace - a $59 handmade metal shaker with a contact mic inside it and a tone control on the outside, the Mole - a $229 filter based on the MS20, Downgrade - an analog pseudo bit reducer and Parade - a $44 kit with a circuit board and various pots, which is six squarewave oscillators to tweak together.  

Professionalism In Music Bands

Bands and Professionalism, I view this is a very important topic. There are a lot of bands that don't cross their T's and dot their I's. It's for the most part fairly easy to learn your part of the song on your instrument and perhaps your vocal part, but there are many other things to take into account for your live performances. Remember, you're being paid to do a job, and as fun as that job might be it is still in fact, a job. The venue owner or talent buyer is expecting you to come through with a quality performance. To start with, you want to arrive at the venue in plenty of time to set up and do your sound checks.

Featured Artist: Toni Arden

Chart debut year: 1949

Hawaiian heat waves muxtape

There is a chill in the air here in south eastern Australia. What better way to ward of the winter blues with a Hawaiian themed muxtape? You can pretend that you are: ‘Neath swaying palm trees Warm, friendly sea breeze When you hear the mellow steel guitars Moaning sweetly under tropic stars Information on the tracks and artists over the [...]

Tune Buster

Tune Buster is a free keyboard synthesizer for OS X, and can turn your musical USB keyboard into a complete instrument. Tune Buster is easy to use and no configuration is needed, just start the program, plug in a keyboard and play.

Different sounds can be selected by clicking the desired instrument in the popup menu. Use the arrow keys or the mouse scroll button if you have one to speed up the selection process.

Tune Buster can be made invisible by closing the main window, and the keyboard will still play.

Mozart's 'Don Giovanni'

Many have called Don Giovanni the finest opera ever composed. Mozart's classic is a brilliant combination of stark human tragedy and touching comedy, set to music of limitless genius. It's heard in a new production from Houston Grand Opera.

Today's Featured Artist: The Tremeloes

British Invasion pop group. Best known songs include "Here Comes My Baby" (1967), "Silence Is Golden" (1967), and "Even The Bad Times Are Good" (1967).