A Time to Go
Music Creation Process
One of the questions that Rich is often asked
is “where did you get your formal musical
training and education?” The answer is the
school of hard knocks. Rich has not had any
formal education or training, but he can read,
and practice is the best teacher. Rich started
composing in 2002 and composed, recorded,
and produced around two dozen songs from
2002-05. In 2005, Rich was called away to
command a battalion in combat. One of the
things that got Rich through those trying days
was thinking about all the ways that he was
going to modify his music when he got back to
his studio in the USA. He lost a significant
amount of his high end hearing and has had to
rely more on visualization and on music theory
since then.
The video (below) describes the music
creation process in more detail.
The “Range Shadows” are session musicians
Dr G composes the songs, prints out the sheet music or tabulature
and then works with session musicians to record the songs. One of
the session musicians for this album was Danny T. Levine, who
added his virtuoso horn skills.
Rich plays some of the parts
Some of the parts are heavily
modified versions of guitar,
mandolin, violin, and keyboard
riffs..
