THE DILEMMA OF MUSICAL GENIUS
           by Tartan Composer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a 'true' prodigy??? But was he really or was it simply monkey see monkey do...after all, his father Leopold, a seasoned musician and violin teacher taught him the…

As a seasoned multi-instrumentalist musician, singer-songwriter and multi-genre composer, nothing irks me more than inept, lazy musicians (I use the term very loosely in this instance) who…

WHY POP STARS ARE KILLED OFF! 

There seems to be a strange pattern of similar ‘kill-off’ type deaths in the music business, of their mega-stars! The once, very alive ‘cash cows’ who pulled in millions of dollars globally for the…

WHY X SUCKS AS A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM

Back in the day, when X was Twitter, it was a pretty decent platform for all types to use, from serious bloggers, writers, musos etc and of course, plain ol' Joe Public…

Hey there!  Thank you for reading this blog. Bet you didn't know that Tartan Composer is actually a writer, author, blogger and playwright. Here's a quick resume of some of my literary output. 

A selection of these are available on…

MAESTRO

The recent Netflix movie about Leonard Bernstein has garnered alot of publicity, both accolades and brickbats. With a larger-than-life personality like Bernstein or Lenny as he was known to friends and colleagues, the inevitable question must be asked…how can…

THE EYE OF SUCCESS…or, HOW TO ACHIEVE FAME BY ‘SELLING OUT!’

This short blog is an extract from the upcoming book THE EYE OF SUCCESS by Tartan Composer.

INFILTRATION BY STEALTH

Did you know that for a very long time…

SEARCHING FOR THE GOLDEN VOICE!

The image above is the young woman I have chosen as my main character in my first stage musical entitled “Queen of the Street."

Around 2010, I began an ambitious project to complete a stage…

THE BEDROOM BOYS!

I started out as a teen, writing poems, stories and songs. My pal Eddie played acoustic guitar. I played a cheap plastic recorder and we both sang. We were bedroom artists and totally unknown. My songs then…

DIGITAL DOPAMINE!

LCD INTELLIGENCE

LCD…or ‘Lowest Common Denominator’ intelligence, is what ‘they’ have been trying to create in consumers over the years! You may ask, who are ‘they?’…well I'll tell you. Nearly all our consumed content is digital…