Hi,
My name is Dave and I’ve been a musician for over twenty years now.
My first introduction to music was at the age of around four when I would sit down at my mum’s piano and tinkle the ivories of little tunes that I was hearing on the radio or television. Later on around the age of eight I went for music lessons on the piano but found there to be a problem with the reading of the music as I got my left and right hands in a muddle when I was learning how to play. This was later I found out to be due to dyslexia. As a young teenager I went back into learning how to play the piano being influenced by many musical genres. I started to teach myself Ragtime piano music by composers such as Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb. And also played by ear from records on piano and bass guitar by bands that had a big influence on me such as The Stranglers.
Later on I became interested in jazz music and wanted to learn about this subject in more depth so I went back to college to study so that I could have the key to unlock the doors into other musical worlds and have a greater understanding into modal harmony. I have worked with many different musicians and bands from all different styles of music including jazz, indie rock, ambient dance music, techno, house an r n b and seen many changes in technology .This both in hard and computer software. When I began to learn how to use music technology in the early nineties most of the music was written using hardware i.e., outboard gear such as samplers which was limited to around 15 seconds sampling time [recording time]. That was the mid nineties now into the twenty first century music is mainly being written and produced by software programs such as Ableton Live 7 and music being composed on either PCs or Macs. Ableton Live program is far more powerful than any software program that was around in the mid nineties. Hence we are venturing into a world of the computer age an Ableton Live gives us the tools to free an extend our own imaginations within soundscapes.
Let me introduce you to Ableton. Live 7.
