Music educator, director, performer, producer, arranger.
One of the most common mistakes I see in amateur music notation looks something like this: This is wrong, and I'll explain why in a moment. But as modern popular music became increasingly fond of syncopation, so unfortunately did musical literacy decrease, and music software failed to keep up with the lack of proficiency in… Continue reading Syncopation in rhythmic notation – get this right and you’ll never miss a beat…
Remove the (click and) drag from your Sibelius workflow, by mastering keyboard shortcuts.
For a little while I have been tending, pruning and steadily growing five collections of publications for educators and entertainers alike. These come from years of my own work, having been tested out on the stage and in the classroom. Well, these pieces finally have their own home: OlivePressMusic.com! This is where you can now… Continue reading Compositions and Arrangements have moved to: OlivePress Music!
I want to play jazz – but where to start? Over the years of teaching piano I've often been asked to help a student learn 'how to play jazz'. This often seems like a reasonable request but can be hard to execute – depending on the students' proficiency in reading music, or understanding music theory,… Continue reading Play Jazz Piano with Ben!
Following on from my last blog post in which I laid out a method for 'condensing' scores in Sibelius (combining numbered instrumental parts onto one stave while retaining separate dynamic parts), I went ahead and made a video outlining another method for achieving this which doesn't involve needing to make a separate copy of the… Continue reading More on condensing in Sibelius
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