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		<title>Composition Tip: Slurs and Ties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This tip is for music notation beginners (or for composers who often confuse slurs and ties &#8211; like myself!) Recently, while reviewing one of my scores, my instructor at Berklee was commenting that many of my ties and slurs were not clear. Despite my years of composition experience and music theory study, as a self-taught [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shimmersong.com/2010/06/composition-tip-slurs-and-ties/</link>
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		<title>Composition Tip: Doubling Woodwinds with Brass &amp; Strings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently studying orchestration at Berklee and wanted to pass along a nice, simple tip when thinking about pairing instruments (woodwinds, brass and strings) together for doubling. In short, the general goal is to shoot for matching tone color rather than pitch range. I may have been inclined to double up two different instrument families [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shimmersong.com/2010/05/composition-tip-doubling-woodwinds-with-brass-strings/</link>
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		<title>Revisiting Exile on Main St</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite albums of all time is getting some attention as a new re-master and DVD are coming out. Sweet Virginia!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shimmersong.com/2010/05/revisiting-exile-on-main-st/</link>
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		<title>The Earth’s Coolest Concept Album</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good to hear that one of my favorite albums of all time, Pink Floyd&#8217;s The Dark Side of the Moon, is finally getting some attention!  WIRED magazine has voted it the best concept album ever. Following this announcement, they asked their readers to suggest the albums they felt deserving of this award. There are many expected, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shimmersong.com/2010/03/the-earth%e2%80%99s-coolest-concept-album/</link>
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		<title>Music Theory Resource</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for a place to brush up on your music theory, or start learning from scratch, check out this website. Although the interface could use some polishing, it has got to be one of the most thorough resources for information on music theory (and music history too) I know about. Has become very valuable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shimmersong.com/2010/03/music-theory-resource/</link>
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		<title>Berklee School of Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently started something I&#8217;ve always wanted to do: the Film Composition program at Berklee School of Music. It&#8217;s an online program and I&#8217;m learning a lot of valuable stuff already. When you really study the details of a film score, you really notice the difference that music makes in a film; it&#8217;s amazing. Changing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shimmersong.com/2010/02/berklee-school-of-music/</link>
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		<title>Happy Holidays! New East West Quantum Leap Coming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Holidays. I&#8217;m spending a very relaxed few days up in Northern California: Fort Bragg, Mendicino and Guernville/Russian River. Love getting away to this part of California this time of year. In the meantime, I&#8217;m anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Complete Composers Collection from EWQL. I&#8217;ve been dreaming about adding these amazing sounds to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shimmersong.com/2009/12/happy-holidays-new-east-west-quantum-leap-coming/</link>
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		<title>Shimmer Song Videos and Photos!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MTV get ready: I&#8217;ve released my first video for the song Flicker; it&#8217;s also up on YouTube of course. It was fun to get my hands dirty with After Effects again; it had been a while and I was rusty. I wanted to have more visuals in the video than just me playing the piano, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shimmersong.com/2009/11/shimmer-song-videos-and-photos/</link>
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		<title>New E.S. Posthumus Release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Was happy to see on the CDBaby home page the announcement of E.S. Posthumus&#8217;s new release. These guys are one of my all time favorites, and a huge inspiration. I&#8217;ve always enjoyed the way they bring together diverse musical styles, tones and rhythms, to create expansive and colorful &#8220;audio paintings&#8221; that are full of surprises. Mixing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shimmersong.com/2009/10/new-es-posthumus-release/</link>
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		<title>Selling CDs Baby!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been on CDBaby for a while now, and have already sold some of my CD, A Minor Waltz. It&#8217;s been a lot of fun setting it all up, getting my very own barcode, seeing people buy the CD; now, if I can only figure out a way to sell a million of these things, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shimmersong.com/2009/08/selling-cds-baby/</link>
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