The first time Iodine heard Saint George Winston play back in the early 1980's I was blown away. I didn't cognize why I liked this music. All Iodine knew was that it made me experience good and that was enough. I didn't even play pianoforte back then but something about this music seeped into me almost haunting me. The manner he allow the short letters peal out and wasn't concerned with dad flavorings. A new sound for the time.

When I began to play piano, I wanted to cognize how he did it. How did he make this music? I read somewhere that his method was to make the chords first, then improvise a tune over them. Great, but what chords and how make you cognize where and when to play them?

I then realized that Saint George wasn't really doing anything radically different than most classical composers who believe in sections. Composition is all about using the techniques of repeat and contrast. Now in most of Winston's music, there is a batch of repeat going on with the direct contrast coming from the melody. The chords are repeated in certain patterns, the tune played on top, but there still is a model operating here.

For example, if we take 8 measurements of music and phone call it a (A) section, we have got composed. We have got got taken chords, set them into some sort of order (no substance how tightly or loosely) and have composed. It takes a certain accomplishment to maintain the music fresh after a certain figure of repetitions. This accomplishment have to be practiced. It can not be taught. This is a doing operation. You can listen to music, but to larn improvisation and composition, you must make it.

Now the secret is this: You may reiterate a subdivision as many times as your involvement stays with the music. As soon as you go bored in your improvising, so will the listener. For most, having one subdivision isn't adequate therefore we convey in the (B) section. This could be anything from 4 to 8 parallel bars of new material. This new stuff is also repeated and eventually we go back to the (A) section. When you start to believe in sections, you can unlock the enigma of most music.