I just realized that I have 338 unfinished garageband files on my computer. 338 times I've sat down and decided to create something that was ultimately left unfinished
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The thing I was telling you about's called an Mbox; that one only has 2 input channels I think, and those with more might be really expensive; I'm also too tired to locate details. But there's any number of semi-cheap (comparatively) multitrack recorders with as many as 8 or whatever inputs out there.
What are these lies about not being able to read sheet music?
Otherwise, yeah, these're all attributes of the creative process as I've experienced it - the increase in vulnerability and difficulty as layers of reverb-drenched synth pads and whatnot are denied you, for example. I'm a big partisan of the idea that your composition chops will improve immensely trying to wrench awesome sounds out of a lone acoustic and your voice, and that it'll make you yet more comfortable with full band stuff when you have such at your disposal again.
Thanks for the hyperlink and the bode of confidence.
Seriously, though! I can't read sheet music! I know where middle C is, and I can 'All Cows Eat Grass' my way through the rest of it. But plugging in notes on a staff when the computer plays the pitch for me ANYWAY, and sitting down at a piano with a piece of paper and being able to actually play the fucking thing are worlds apart in my personal opinion. I couldn't sight-read to save my life, unless it was a single melodic vocal line. I mean, I have decent relative pitch when it comes to lines and spaces, and I'm great with chord SHAPES, but I can't actually PLAY anything that's written down in traditional form at a reasonable tempo, let alone dictate it.
JOHN WEEKS PUT YOUR BALLS IN MY MOUTH!
Yours, Alex Peak
PS Do you know where to vote? Don't forget to vote today!
PS Yes indeed, I'm on my way to do just that. I'm going to write in Obama, but in Wingdings so no one will understand it. Actually no, I'm just going to vote like a reasonable person.
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What are these lies about not being able to read sheet music?
Otherwise, yeah, these're all attributes of the creative process as I've experienced it - the increase in vulnerability and difficulty as layers of reverb-drenched synth pads and whatnot are denied you, for example. I'm a big partisan of the idea that your composition chops will improve immensely trying to wrench awesome sounds out of a lone acoustic and your voice, and that it'll make you yet more comfortable with full band stuff when you have such at your disposal again.
And so forth.
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Seriously, though! I can't read sheet music! I know where middle C is, and I can 'All Cows Eat Grass' my way through the rest of it. But plugging in notes on a staff when the computer plays the pitch for me ANYWAY, and sitting down at a piano with a piece of paper and being able to actually play the fucking thing are worlds apart in my personal opinion. I couldn't sight-read to save my life, unless it was a single melodic vocal line. I mean, I have decent relative pitch when it comes to lines and spaces, and I'm great with chord SHAPES, but I can't actually PLAY anything that's written down in traditional form at a reasonable tempo, let alone dictate it.
JOHN WEEKS PUT YOUR BALLS IN MY MOUTH!
Yours,
Alex Peak
PS Do you know where to vote? Don't forget to vote today!
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PS Yes indeed, I'm on my way to do just that. I'm going to write in Obama, but in Wingdings so no one will understand it. Actually no, I'm just going to vote like a reasonable person.
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