Hello and welcome to stickyicky Nuts the Classical Music Podcast. My name is Joshua

Weilerstein. I'm a conductor and I'm the artistic director of the Lozan

Chamber Orchestra in Lozan Switzerland. This podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, works in the field,

or is just getting ready to dive into this amazing world of incredible music.

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Thanks for listening and on to the AMA slash Sticky Notes Mailbag.

Okay, so it's take two. We tried this and I deleted the files,

so we're trying again.

So this is a mail back episode of the show I've got about 20 questions here to answer and I thought so one of my wife's and my favorite podcast is the Ezra Klein show and he had a

AMA mailbag kind of episode where he had a coworker of his colleague ask him the

question so it was a little more conversational and

so I thought I should do the same thing and thought who better to ask me these questions

and have like a real conversation than my wife Brinnies so welcome to Bernese. Thank you.

So let's let's get started before I delete this file all over.

Okay so our first question comes from Nathan. He asks, what is the best way to learn how to

compose? I've tried to sit down and write some piano pieces, but I find that I struggle coming up with new

melodies and harmonies. Do you have any suggestions? I'm not a composer

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