i tried to record a kind of singer-songwritery song last night and got too embarrassed and had to stop
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
i just thought, how am i tryin to be 33 and not owning the guitar i've wanted my entire life1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak) wrote this at 2013-08-21 16:50:59.000
1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak) wrote this at 2013-08-21 16:50:59.000
Yes! Had a realization this summer that I had got into playing music when I was 10 because I wanted to play bass, but my parents made me take guitar lessons because they owned a guard and that just spiraled into me being a guitar player. So broke down and bought a bass last month at age 34. Fuck. I feel so much better about my musical life at the moment. Have to learn how to play bass now, as I've already gone through all the basslines I'd learned to play on guitar, but I'm very stoked about it.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
"Owned a guitar"
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
Well my band for the first time in probably 13 months doesn't have any upcoming gigs booked, as the club we were going to play in a couple weeks has closed. So far we got to do 12 shows this year. It's not a huge number but the crazy thing is we mostly play shows like 2 hours away more, as there are just no local gigs doing what we do.
Eh...I'm ready to do some recording and writing some new tunes anyway.
― earlnash, Friday, 20 September 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
playing this show on monday but more importantly look at this flyer
https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1236404_10151858324614269_2059788852_n.jpg
― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Friday, 20 September 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
That is a great flyer.
― emil.y, Friday, 20 September 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
Everything about that flyer makes me want to go and see that show.
― came the time he flipped his lid came the time he flipped his lid (snoball), Friday, 20 September 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
Who drew it? It rules.
― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Friday, 20 September 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
the promoter made it, I've actually never met her? hoping she'll have extra copies at the show....
― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Friday, 20 September 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
jon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Theodor_Heine
― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Friday, 20 September 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
ooh thanks! Never heard of him before. I wonder if he counted the bilious Heinrich Heine among his ancestors.
― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Friday, 20 September 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
Feeling good about my latest 'choons to the point where I'm starting to think about seeking out live performances. And then I realize: that's me playing all the parts on my demos and I haven't played my songs for anyone else.
So much for that idea.
Here's my most recent thing. It's very stock jangle pop sounding. But that's what we like:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArzwVqXK6po
― Austin, Saturday, 21 September 2013 04:44 (ten years ago) link
As menshed elsewhere last night was pretty much my first proper time performing live, even if it were just vox/harmonies. It was super fun though, helped by the fact my bandmates are amazing,talented men who write music I actively really enjoy. So proud of us.
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Saturday, 21 September 2013 04:54 (ten years ago) link
playing tonight at the larimer lounge in Denver! if you're in denver, come say hi! http://www.larimerlounge.com/event_details.cfm?blogid=1199
― tylerw, Saturday, 21 September 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
- I've been writing a lot of chamber music this year. Most exciting is a ballet, the National Ballet of Canada are performing it in November. Orchestra + solo soprano + harpsichord. Anybody who'd like to hear MIDI and see PDF can PM me about it.
- It seems I am writing a vocal piece for Hilliard Ensemble with another ILXor on the words and I bet you can guess who
- Diam4nda Gal4s played a festival that I curated in Lausanne. Unfortunately I could not attend because I am busy in Montreal. But: I got word from my friend doing her makeup that aside from being a lovely person to work with, she is a fan of Mariah. "I love her," she said, when looking at some Mariah brand nail polish. How about that? It's like *sigh of relief*
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
Man, that is a post I cannot top.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
I was going to add that I'm also appearing on SNL this weekend but I figured I'd break it into two posts.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
That actually takes a lot if pressure off of my little cabaret night, thanks ftgi
― You are kind, I am jerkface (DJP), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
i bought an overdrive pedal yeaaaaaaah now who wins eh.
― opie dead eyed piece of shit (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 01:13 (ten years ago) link
! xxp
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 01:24 (ten years ago) link
I have about 30 mins of music done, if I clean it up I guess I have an album
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 01:25 (ten years ago) link
also apparently I made a song last night that for some reason I titled Boricua Owl
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 01:26 (ten years ago) link
- sat up way late last night trying out the studio mic ive had set up in my room forever and not used (issues with room reverb i had to fix). Dear god, it shits all over my beaten up old SM57. I dont have to STRAIN when I sing.
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 01:40 (ten years ago) link
Hell yeah, Merdeyeux! What did you get?
― how's life, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 12:00 (ten years ago) link
Picked up my tele this morning for the first time since buying the bass about a month ago. It felt like a mandolin. The bass is so much more comfortable for me.
― how's life, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link
After our rehearsal last night, I think the spiritual ensemble concert on Sunday will be okay. As of Monday, I thought it was going to be a massive trainwreck, so that's a good thing.
― You are kind, I am jerkface (DJP), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
convinced highly skeptical bandmate that bass through the slowgear clone pedal -> heavy metal 2 pedal would sound awesome.
― not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link
how cool did it sound
― fresh (crüt), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
is it good for basslines or is it more suitable for abstract/extended technique playing
― fresh (crüt), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 22:02 (ten years ago) link
it sounds as close to a distorted amplified cello as I think I can get with a bass and no computer/midi. It only works well when played slow or at moderate tempo, but it is almost exactly what I wanted it to sound like.
― not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
n.b. i have only been playing bass for about a year, after having played for about a year as a teenager, so it might work differently for a better bass player
― not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
cabaret was doooooooooope
― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Sunday, 6 October 2013 12:56 (ten years ago) link
my girlfriends and i started practicing to be the GoGos at the local halloween thing
its my electric (non-bass) guitar debut tbh
it is VERY fun
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 7 October 2013 02:24 (ten years ago) link
i am jane weidlin
she lives in my town, plays some bands i think but i haven't seen any of them. i only know her from Clue.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 7 October 2013 13:40 (ten years ago) link
Been trying out a new bass playing technique by holding the neck higher and holding my fingers so they point down rather than across the neck, playing the strings with the sides of my fingers a bit like a double bass. I'm self taught but this seemed to help my playing somewhat (less encouraged to play with my thumb), whereas I'd almost always approached the bass like a finger style guitar with a finger on each string. Am I doing the right thing here?
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Monday, 7 October 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
finished a recording project i've been working on for a yearbought a new guitartrying to write songs again
― fresh (crüt), Monday, 7 October 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
wait, dl, do you mean with your fingers pointing straight up? and do you mean your fretting or picking hand?
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 7 October 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
picking hand. before, i was holding my hand into a sort of claw with a thumb/finger for each string. I knew i was doing it wrong, but it's what came natural. I'm trying to use the resting thumb/two finger technique now, but I'm playing it a bit more like an upright bass (although maybe not that extreme).
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Monday, 7 October 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
i started playing bass this year and my hand cramps out very hard and embarassingly fast, but it's more my fretting hand. could be wrong but there's no right or wrong way unless you really wanna shred, it's more about experimenting with what feels comfortable. i'm at the extreme of unambitiousness technique-wise, though
― flopson, Monday, 7 October 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
oh ok yeah. youre now playing the way i play.
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 7 October 2013 23:59 (ten years ago) link
im really worried that my (pending) rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis (waiting for test results) is going to F with my playing. so far whatever it is isn't in my wrists or hands, but from what i hear that prob won't last
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
Got the EP mastered today. Pretty happy with it.
― 29 facepalms, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 08:42 (ten years ago) link
I spent yesterday evening in a super-souped up studio, an "ideal listening environment", to listen to and make notes on some mixes I've been working on for a client. Things were going great until my friend who works there cruelly put on some Real Music, who's mixes shat all over mine. A single Broadcast song made me want to change occupations, bleah.
I've been stewing about this for years: if the listening public/music writing body understood how their musical experiences are so definitively created by not the songwriter, or the producer, or the performer, but by the mixer and the mixing process, 90% of all fun rhetoric would dissolve. You can't really sling mud as effectively when your opinions are defined exclusively by who's behind the desk. Agree? disagree? Anyway, making records sucks.
― you and me against the board (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
disagree; you just get to have nerdier, more esoteric mudslinging arguments
― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
Anyway, making records sucks.
Bleurgh, tell me about it...I've got 95% of an album recorded, but nothing mixed yet. And this is always the point at which my ears fill with cotton wool and the songs that I thought were awesome end up sounding like a guy shouting from behind a sofa.
― not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
True. The language of mixing engineers is kind of the worst. I started to type some anecdotes but it just turned into venting so I deleted it.
― you and me against the board (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
dude who mixed my band's never-released album had managed to get his hands on copies of the Sergeant Pepper's masters and was going to remix the album to include some of the string parts that had been left out
that basically told me everything I feel I need to know about dudes who are professional mixers
― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
some otherwise good records can be ruined or made less enjoyable by bad recording/mixing/mastering, and other records can sound terrible and still be great. it all depends, y'know? some kinds of music are way more dependent on sonics than others.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
if the listening public/music writing body understood how their musical experiences are so definitively created by not the songwriter, or the producer, or the performer, but by the mixer and the mixing process, 90% of all fun rhetoric would dissolve. You can't really sling mud as effectively when your opinions are defined exclusively by who's behind the desk
Oh god yes. Final mixing on good speakers is like getting your teeth pulled through your brain, you doubt your aesthetics and your sanity. It's like a process of systematically removing everything you found intrinsically interesting during composition. But things like low end are important.
More Sunday broadcasts followed, but Stokowski was unhappy with them. He disliked the sound of the radio signal, which was compressed (tamped in at its low and high ends) so as to travel through the air without grave loss of fidelity. He loathed the surrender of aural control that the process called for. Before conducting the musicians, he conducted the technicians -- supervising the placement of the microphones, scrutinizing the recording equipment, and quarreling with his new rival behind a mixing console. "He was at the conductor's stand, and off to the side in the wings there was a man sitting at a sort of keyboard with dials," Evangeline Johnson recalled. "He was called the mixer. Stokowski stopped the orchestra and asked what the man was doing." When the need to compress the sound for broadcast was explained, he retorted: "Then you're paying the wrong man. He's the conductor and I'm not. I don't want this to be broadcast under my name if I'm not controlling the pianissimo, the mezzo forte, and the fortissimo."
As the story goes, for the next broadcast Stokowski made the technicians place a portable mixing board near the conductor's podium; as the story goes, the technicians disconnected the wires at their end, placating the maestro with the illusion of control.
pg 138, Reinventing Bach, Paul Elle
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link