Author Archives: Richard Graham

a better day?

Ok, I’m actually writing this this morning, so this is how I want the day to turn out…. First I drink lots of coffee and whilst listening to MTV do all my mail and admin work ( already done this!). Hopefully it will be warm enough to work in a T-shirt and enjoy the nice…

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I wish it were Friday…

Today was back to doing the Phonics songs. But…. I couldn’t get anything done!! It was back to sitting down, playing the keys, pressing the buttons but nothing came out!! What a contrast to Friday!!! Wow, it’s amazing the difference. I wonder if the cloudy weather had anything to do with it? So back to…

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Recording

Today I popped into the set to produce a recording session for another CD project I have, this time to help junior high school kids. It’s not quite genki, but it is something that really, really helped me learning languages so it could be really good!

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If everyday could be like today!

Today was great, I got two songs written and recording, first time, first take. Fantastic!!! Great, oh just imagine if everyday went as well as today! So for the first time in ages I could relax in the evening knowing I’d done a great day’s work!

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Inspiration!

Now this is more like it!!! For the last 3 months I’ve been really struggling trying to come up with some cool productions for the new phonics CD, it’s gotta be genki, but credible, and it’s very difficult. But yesterday I got a new music computer and wow!!! This is so great, just playing around…

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Music Computer!

Tried to do some music work in the morning, but it didn’t really work. The new software synths I have sound fantastic, but less like Genki English and more like Terminator 3! Not very useful. When I did get something going the computer crashed. Hmmm. In the afternoon I had a meeting with a teacher…

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