Welcome to my new series. With this series I will be composing a new piece for string quartet and commentating my process as I go on. The aim is to create some compelling content, explain some of the processes and thoughts that go behind my compositional approach and to be informative for people interested in taking up composition. The format of this series is inspired by YouTube "Let's Players" that commentate on their games as they play them. In particular: BDoubleO http://www.youtube.com/user/BdoubleO100 Ethoslab http://www.youtube.com/user/EthosLab and the Mindcrack team. Please forgive the slowness of this first episode - takes everyone a while to get into the swing of commentating, and I'm learning this as I go. I am aware of the pacing issue and have dealt with it in later videos. Intro Music: "Summer" by Edward Caine and Alan Gillot, performed by Robert Rice and William Vann More information about me: http://www.edwardcaine.com/ In this episode we just introduce the series and talk about some of the ideas that are going to be going into the piece. If you have any suggestions or comments please feel free to comment below. I will be reading them. To save you some time: This is the first time I've done this, I did have to skip the video quite a lot, and I ran out of tape and had to start again at one point. I think I made a couple of grammar errors as I was speaking and haven't tried to fix them. Commentating is quite difficult. I don't really have any cheery music to use for the intro and outro yet. I'm hoping this piece will take the place of "Summer". Music is a very subjective thing and I fully accept that you may not like mine. If that's the case then it doesn't really need to be said. My explanation of harmonics was a little vague and rushed - sorry about that, second time I had done it and had lost the thread a bit. Please leave a like if you like it and subscribe if you'd like more. More information about my music can be found on my website.