Lester Barnes
@lesterbarnes
Media Composer
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http://www.Lesterbarnes.com 03-06-2009 16:12:17
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How lovely to be taken out to #lunch by the very lovely Lester Barnes at @CenturySoho! #composer #london #publishing
@Tomothy80 Ian Pace Stuart Russell🎹🎸🎚🎛🎼 Dr Lauren Redhead 🐝 From the ground up - keyboard skills, harmony, extended harmony and use of scales and modes, orchestration, voicing, voice leading....
@Tomothy80 Ian Pace Stuart Russell🎹🎸🎚🎛🎼 Dr Lauren Redhead 🐝 counterpoint, arranging, aural skills, rhythmic and percussive studies, learning to transcribe and re-produce from ear.... etc
@Tomothy80 Ian Pace Stuart Russell🎹🎸🎚🎛🎼 Dr Lauren Redhead 🐝 Notation is the best way to translate, communicate and learn musical structures and forms. The most precise way to pass it on to others.
@Tomothy80 Ian Pace Stuart Russell🎹🎸🎚🎛🎼 Dr Lauren Redhead 🐝 define "top notch musical understanding" and what genres of music do they produce ?
@Tomothy80 Dr Lauren Redhead 🐝 Richard Nye Ian Pace Stuart Russell🎹🎸🎚🎛🎼 Yet, I know of one major course in London that has no requirement for any musical experience from it's students and makes those claims (1/2)
@Tomothy80 Dr Lauren Redhead 🐝 Richard Nye Ian Pace Stuart Russell🎹🎸🎚🎛🎼 Every year I take on work experience students prior to them attending colleges MT courses - many have problems finding basic chords (2/2)
@Tomothy80 Dr Lauren Redhead 🐝 Richard Nye Ian Pace Stuart Russell🎹🎸🎚🎛🎼 That course in question required GCSE English and Maths as well as being able to fund £10k a year but no mention of musical skills
@Tomothy80 Dr Lauren Redhead 🐝 Richard Nye Ian Pace Stuart Russell🎹🎸🎚🎛🎼 Very much so with an M for music in it's name and a few campuses in the U.K.