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4 Ways to Jumpstart Your Creativity!
52 Cues Podcast, Career Advice, Career Habits, Featured Composer, Musical Technique, Composing, Creativity Dave Kropf 52 Cues Podcast, Career Advice, Career Habits, Featured Composer, Musical Technique, Composing, Creativity Dave Kropf

4 Ways to Jumpstart Your Creativity!

We’ve talked about how important sustainable creativity is for the production music composer, but what happens when you got nothing or a deadline hangs over you like the sword of Damocles? On this week's episode, I’m going to give you 4 ways that I jumpstart my own creative process when time is short or energy is low.

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September Workshop: Decoding Cues Through Modeling
Music Production, Workshops, Musical Technique, Education, Family Group, Friend Group, Music Theory Shannon Kropf Music Production, Workshops, Musical Technique, Education, Family Group, Friend Group, Music Theory Shannon Kropf

September Workshop: Decoding Cues Through Modeling

Do you want to learn the secrets of how successfully published cues are written?

Join Dave Kropf as he discusses and demonstrates “Compositional Modeling,” the process of decoding instrumental, rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic aspects of reference material in order to use them in your own cues!

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