How to Write Music on a Laptop While Travelling

Check out Guy’s “How to Write Music“ course! Download our FREE guide: Bar central, San Gemini Umbria. We all love the idea of travelling and writing music in exotic places, but how feasible is it? With a laptop and a tiny keyboard, can you write a decent piece of music? Join award winning composer Guy Michelmore on a trip to Italy to find out. With a Macbook Pro, Spitfire’s BBC Core and Logic Pro X, Guy gives it a go. Also we reflect on the passing on one of the greatest film composers of all time, Ennio Morricone. 0:00 Start 0:10 Welcome to San Gemini 2:00 The travelling kit 5:10 Adding strings 5:55 Adding Oboe 8:35 Adding a counter-melody 10:35 Guy - wake up - there’s a touchbar you idiot! 16: a big string top line 24:30 The finished piece 26:40 Ennio Morricone remembered - - - - How To Write Music - - - - How To Write Music explores the fundamental skills that underpin every great piece of music whether it’s a song or a film score, string quartet or v