james-mcginley

James McGinley

Edinburgh & Reading

Mostly original, chilled, instrumental music - played on guitar or keyboards All about life & love, one way or another Music has been a close companion all my life... as a listener. A few years ago, it became an even closer companion after I discovered that "composing" music could produce sounds that really helped the way I felt. This happened after I found out that the notes we (and the ancient Greeks) use have a special relationship and that you don't need to know the name of the note, interval or scale to use them. So I make my music one or two notes at a time and find the next ones by trial and error... looking for a feeling. Turns out music reaches the brain in ways that can stimulate the production of internal drugs that affect the way you feel. When I sit with my guitar or keyboard and “compose” I do not have any plan except to listen and feel what I experience. It takes a while before something like a tune evolves. Then sometime later when I am playing that tune to myself … a few words or an image or a thought will come into my head and I use that to give the tune a title. Nothing else is written down. After a while I did have a few tunes that I really loved and played them shakily at my first open mic. Over time new tunes kept coming and I went busking and played at a few more open mics and gig slots in pubs. Looking back at the tune titles, many had a common theme, so I decided to record a CD titled “All about love one way or another”, which is still a work in progress.

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