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Andy French's Musical Explorations

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Afterlife cover art showing a graphic image of a winged skull.

New track “Afterlife” live on Spotify and YouTube

In Uncategorised18th November 2023 Andy French

Hi All. Just a quick note here to say that I have released a new track called Afterlife which can be found on Spotify and YouTube.    I hope …

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Release in “Incomplete” status in TuneCore

In UncategorisedTags TuneCore16th November 2023 Andy French

Here’s just a quick post to describe an issue I had with a release I was pushing out through TuneCore. For some reason, the release was showing as “Incomplete” in …

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Modulus Amplification MOD 800 build

In Uncategorised23rd February 2021 Andy French

This post was originally created to because I was having issues with the build of a MOD 800 2204 Small Box kit from Modulus Amplification. I’ve since removed some of …

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Unable to activate a product in Native Access

In Uncategorised28th November 2020 Andy French

OK, here’s an odd one. I recently bought the Straylight soft synth from Native Instruments. I tried the demo first but when it came to activating the full product the …

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Fixing the catalog location in Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop software for Windows 10

In Uncategorised4th August 2018 Andy French

Background Some time ago I purchased a number of courses from Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop web site. I use Windows PCs so I downloaded the course material using the supplied …

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Melodic Minor Modes – Summary

In Jazz Theory, Melodic Minor, Music Theory, UncategorisedTags Jazz, Melodic Minor, Music Theory2nd August 2018 Andy French

This post is a summary of the previous posts regarding the modes of the Melodic Minor scale (see Index to other posts at the end). I am trying to break …

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Welcome all. Just a quick note here to say please take care with the information on this site. I’m not a professional musician and not a music teacher. The posts here have been created for my use as a record of things I’ve learned. I hope you find the site useful but take care to cross-check the content with other sources, something you should always do anyway. Have fun. Make music!

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Andy French was the lead guitarist and vocalist with the British alternative metal band The Hollowkind. The band is now defunct but their tunes are available on Spotify or SoundCloud.

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