Do you ever compose #music? 🎵 Today’s the start of a brand new tip series, all about #composition! ✏️The 1st tip is a handy starter sheet of things to think about writing a piece! Let me know what you think of this new series and feel free to share! #ctarasmusictips

🚨 Would you like a #free #music theory lesson? 💰 I’ve started a competition over on my Instagram! 🥳 Go find me at Charlotte Taras and enter! Please feel free to spread the free music education love through retweets if you can! 🥰 instagram.com/ctarasmusic/

Happy Tuesday everyone! 😀 I hope everyone’s week has started great and has been productive and enjoyable so far! I’ve got some new #music theory students starting online lessons with me today — can’t wait! 😁

In today’s #PhD editing session I’m addressing my lit review and how to make it more focussed. I can reword to make it materially more succinct 💪 but from an intellectual point of view, what aspects should I focus on to drill down to the key points of the texts? #phdchat

Do you have a secret language? 🤫 Today’s #composition tip suggests you use secret sentences to write #rhythms in your #music if you’re stuck for ideas! Have you tried this method? Let me know and feel free to share! 😀

Secret fact! I used to have a secret language I would use at school which was basically talking in anagrams and writing letters of the alphabet with the strokes mixed up so they looked different 😁 🤫

Good morning Twitter! Bit of a late morning tweet from me this morning thanks to joy that is now one-way supermarket shopping 🙄 Although nothing is quite as surreal as a Berio ‘Sequenza’ coming up on shuffle through the headphones whilst browsing the Weetabix! 🥣

Student won’t play scales in #piano lesson? Easy solution! Get them to turn the electric piano to a ‘doo’ #choir sound and playing all their scales at a ridiculously low pitch so they sound like Doctor Who #Dalek scales! 😂

Do you plan out your compositions before you start them? 🤔 Today’s tip for #composing focuses on how to structure your #music! There are other forms or you could decide to go rogue! But the ones listed below are the most common and easiest to use 👍 Let me know what you think!

Good morning Twitter! In the spirit of #ThrowbackThursday, today would have been #jazz pianist and singer Hazel Scott’s 100th birthday! 🥳 Scott fought for equality in Hollywood, challenging segregation and stereotyping. If you’ve not had the pleasure: youtu.be/DTtX7QVaQWk

Are you thrifty?💰 Today’s #music tip for #composition is all about being #musically thrifty rather than economically! Rather than changing lots of things, try changing one little thing at a time to keep familiarity in your music 🎵 Please feel free to RT! #ctarasmusictips

Good morning everyone! 😀 Who else is looking forward to the weekend? 🙋🏻‍♀️ I’m kicking off my Friday by teaching a #piano lesson and tempted to indulge in some #ukulele practise for the first time in ages, just for the sheer fun of it! 👍

Are you any good at throwing shapes? 💃 Don’t worry, I’m not either! So draw some lines and start creating #music and #composing in a super easy and quick way! All music has shape so why not start with that, rather than #notes and #rhythms 👍 Have you tried this? Let me know!

Good morning! 👋 Yesterday was very busy and I needed a little break so I’m kicking off Sunday with yesterday’s #composing tip for writing #music! And it’ll be a double whammy as another one will be landing this afternoon! 😁 Hope everyone is having a great weekend! 👍

Can you do a #handstand? I definitely can’t! But I am a pro at flipping my #music backwards and upside down as a fun #composition technique! 👍 Have you ever tried this tip? Feel free to RT if you liked this 😀 #ctarasmusictips

Good morning all! 👋 I hope everyone has a lovely weekend! Will you be heading out today to the ‘non-essential’ shops? I’m 2 #piano lessons down for the day already and 5 left to go! Feeling productive! 🎹

If you could get any #singer to sing #MindTheGap on the TfL Tube, who would it be? Another super easy #music composition tip for you today! Start simple and build up the complexity by filling in the big gaps with notes and rhythms! Feel free to share this tip! #ctarasmusictips

Good morning! Wishing everyone a terrific Tuesday! 😁 I’m kicking off my day with some #piano lessons! Then full steam ahead with PhD work, planning my summer #music education projects, more piano and music theory lessons and then maybe a snack 😂 How are you spending today?

Are you got at #maths? 🧮 I love maths, so that’s why love playing mathematical games with my #rhythms when I’m #conposing #music! 👍 Do you have any games that make your work more fun? Please feel free to RT if you liked this tip! 🎵 #ctarasmusictips