Print out plenty of sheets to practice on and start your compositions in pencil.Configure the staves like you want them, download the files, and print them out from your computer. ![]() On many sites, you can even pre-set the key and add the clef markers without having to fill them in yourself.Its not free like online but your work will look more professional. If you are really serious though, it would be a better idea to go to a music store and get staff paper there. Instead, find some free blank staff paper online that you can print out quickly to start filling in with your compositions. If you want to write sheet music free-hand, the old fashioned way of Mozart and Beethoven, don't worry about drawing your staves on a blank piece of paper with a ruler. ![]() Sheet music is written on lined notation paper, featuring blank staves on which you can print notes, rests, dynamic markers, and other notes to guide the instrumentalists as they play. Thank you Anthony Michael Clarkin a man who made unique and wonderful music and left us so much behind.Download and print some free notation paper. Magnum is a band that will always remain in my heart. I can’t see Magnum continuing without Tony but I’d be more than happy if Bob and the family did and it would be wonderful to see a tribute to the great man at some stage. With artwork again designed by Rodney Matthews and a line-up consisting of Catley, Clarkin, keyboardist Rick Benton, bassist Dennis Ward and drummer Lee Morris again we have a beautifully realised Magnum release and a wonderful goodbye. Over the years there have been so may epics… ‘Borderline’ is another classic that builds and ebbs and flows and sounds wonderful. I’m struck for a moment that this may be the final ‘final’ track on a Magnum album. I first head Magnum before I was a teenager and their music has been with me ever since. Penultimate track: ‘I Wanna Live’ is the contrast that Magnum do so well, gently building and full of light – almost yearing, it’s all the positive energy you could muster in a song of hope and one of my real standouts here along with the singles and the opener.Ĭloser ‘Borderline’ brings me to a standstill again. It’s clearly a reflection of the world today, of conflict, of destruction and stark and powerful as anything that has come before. ‘Broken City’ feels dark and cold, despondent and mournful and you can’t help but feel the picture of despair painted by Clarkin’s words and Bob’s vocal. A real highlight on this album!” You can’t help but agree! ![]() The recordings were great fun, especially the moment when Chris’s sax took the lead and my guitar responded. The second single ‘The Seventh Darkness’ though is just like the Magnum we all love and now but with a twist:Īs Tony said: “ (There’s) some awesome brass sections courtesy of guest musicians Chris ‘BeeBe’ Aldridge (saxophone) and Nick Dewhurst (trumpet), which lend the song brilliance and shape. Songs like ‘The Day He Lied’ may lyrically be less open to interpretation but are just as powerful. I’ve always found that part of the real charm of Magnum’s lyrics – the elemental nature and the universal themes all set in the unique world Clarkin created. So I’m sort of protective about explaining the meaning of songs that I’ve written because it can actually spoil a person’s enjoyment of the song, better that they find their own meaning in it.” Clarkin: “ Over the years hearing maybe some records that were my favourite songs at the time and then only much later did I ever discover that the meaning of the song was totally different to what I thought it was. “ I thought this would give me more time to do it, but I found it harder to get into a writing mindset when I was being interrupted by preparing for live shows.”Īs far as subject matter is concerned, he doesn’t have a hangup with any particular topic but takes inspiration from all sorts of places. Clarkin spent more time writing this album because the tour getting delayed due to Covid split his normal writing time into two sections.
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