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		<title>Composing Smooth Jazz: Evolution of a New Song &#8211; Transcendance, Part 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Part 3 can be found here.) Next, I started doing something that I&#8217;ve wanted to do for a long time. In the sequencer that I use, Digital Performer, I have installed a plugin sampler called MachFive. And in MachFive you have the ability to load any sound into it and then trigger that sound on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Composing Smooth Jazz: Evolution of a New Song &#8211; Transcendance, Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Part 2 can be found here.) A big part of what I do with any song I&#8217;m composing is edit sound files. This is where I take recorded parts, cut them up into smaller pieces, then move them around so they are exactly the way I want them. (I can spend hours doing this kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Composing Smooth Jazz: Evolution of a New Song &#8211; Transcendance, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Maxwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Part 1 can be found here.) Now that I&#8217;ve got a good working groove going, I can start to actually design the song with chord changes and melody that way I originally heard it and described it on that envelope. It&#8217;s time now to compose bass and keyboard parts that incorporate the chord changes that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Composing Smooth Jazz: Evolution of a New Song &#8211; Transcendance, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 16:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Composting smooth jazz music is, for me, a never-ending process. It comes to me in a variety of ways, and sometimes, when I least expect it.

Recently, while driving back and forth to a show over several days, I came up with a song in my head.

I thought it would be interesting to chronicle the evolution of this song, so I'm going to make notes as I go along and share them with you.]]></description>
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