Art of Composing

This is a common fear that people have before they begin the path to learning composition. Will learning music theory, ruin your creativity? Will it somehow make you less creative, stuffy, and unable to compose anything original or genuinely fresh. Let me relate a story, and I’ll let you come to your own conclusions. I recently had the opportunity to disconnect from the world, in a way that I’ve been unable to disconnect. We all face the reality of the world around us. Constant notifications,...