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Mash Ups With Ableton Live 8

Submitted by Paul Ryan on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 11:21

So a couple of years ago I was lucky enough to win a full copy of Ableton Live 8 Studio in a competition run by Computer Music magazine.  A fantastic prize, worth about £800 in total.  The problem was my Dell laptop was not up to the job of running it, so after a few frustrating months of dabbling with music creation, it got parked on a shelf and gathered dust.

Here Comes Your Man

Submitted by Paul Ryan on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 09:41

I started learning a new song yesterday, "Here comes your man" by the Pixies.  It's a great song and like most good songs (at least to these ears) it is a very simple song with just one key (D Major), a nice riff that underpins the song, four or five chords only and some nice chord progressions.  The chords are almost like circle of fifths style progressions (D, A, Em then G) although it would need to be (G,D,A,Em) to be properly circle of fifths.

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