If you burn them on a play, don't huddle back up...run the same shit at them again (When people are dancing, continue the song for another chorus(es))
Had my first lesson with my buddy last night, fingers are sore as shit. Learned some progression, and can play something somewhat resembling Dylan's "Knocking on Heaven's Door," if you listen closely enough.
baby steps man. you'll get better/faster with repetition and muscle memory and science. lots of people get discouraged early on and then have that guitar collecting dust in the corner for 8 years
Their entire first album was really good, but that's the only song that was ever particularly popular.
we've moved to Am/Cmaj pentatonic soloing. teacher said he was skipping forward a good ways in lessons because of my progress. but I now have no clue what I'm doing. I guess trying to learn some riffs/licks using the pentatonic notes and practice them in each scale never learned that shit for guitar
Is the squier jaquar bass any good? Anyone know? Looking for a decent/cheap bass for the most basic of bass lines on recordings
Yea, it's not anything other than home studio shit and calling it a studio is an enormous stretch. I've got a set up with pro tools and an interface with a drumming program. I have to use amp modeling because I have young children and have to do it when they go to bed
Mine sounds like doodoo. It has no vocals or bass. I have the vocal pattern to some of them but I can't sing. I just had a ton of riffs that I wanted to develop so I started fucking with recording again. I'm also not very good at programming the drums.
Haha same boat for me pretty much. It's been 4 years since I've been in a band though and it kills me to go through life not recording anything so leaning towards trying to create some DIY demos myself. What all gear do you have? This is what I was thinking I'd need to buy at a minimum to get started: -New laptop (current one is from 2010) -A good mic -Pro Tools Would like to get a keyboard as well
Desktop Pro-tools with an mbox Ezdrummer + drum kit from hell(not great and not terrible either, want to get ezdrummer 2 but don't really want to pay for it ATM) Amplitube 3 with the metal pack (amp modeling which works for what I want) I'm not really metal with my writing I'm finding out. It's more hard fuck with metal (Metallica mainly) influences.
I wrote metally stuff back in the day with bands but my new stuff is more Death Cab/John Mayer/Weezer, just trying to write cool songs with maybe a fun guitar part or two Re: laptop instead of desktop -- I had a small hope I'd be able to make my studio somewhat "portable". I live in an apartment and don't want to do stuff that requires getting loud (vocal takes) there. Is it a pipe dream to be able to have a setup I could take around with me? Would be rad if I could do some tracks at home, some tracks at a friend's house or in a barn somewhere, etc
Nah, you could take that anywhere. The only physical things you'd need was the guitar, mic, computer, and a little input box that can be as small as a paper back book. This excludes cords but you could easily take that anywhere
Ok well it's a GOAT movie if you like music (actually it may be a gay movie but user TC has a major thing for it). It stars Keira Knightley and Adam Levine and is now on Netflix; check it out immediately. Anyway, part of the plot includes an album being recorded on the streets of New York so I was gonna make a reference to that
That's one of the great things about the age we live in. 20 years ago it would cost an arm and a leg for just a few hours recording. Now you can do it at home whenever you want
No joke. Growing up reading guitar magazines in the 90s, just visiting a professional studio one day was a dream. To have your own shit recorded on a CD?
topic interests me. I have a nice Mac and some pedals, instruments, and cables. So I need a good mic Sounds like Pro Tools is the preferred software? Redav whats the MBox about? Also my buddy thinks he can handle the drums for anything I do so I'm not messing with buying anything like that
Synthesia, you the real MVP. Found my next project. Gonna take many many hours and copious amounts of thc but goddamnit I'm gonna be able to play this shit
I think that is what the thing that used to come with pro tools is called. It's what interacts with the pro tools. Also pro tools does a ton of shit and can take some time to learn. I still probably only know how to do a fraction of what it can actually do. ^this is what an mbox looks like. I think that's actually the name of the one that used to come with pro tools. I think you can use any one you want with it now because supposedly these had driver issues. I've seen people recommend focusrite boxes lately
Also I think it's an enormous pain in the dick to record drums as far as mic'ing it and everything. You might want to get the drums, get a midi keyboard, and your drummer friend can do the drums from there. I guess it all depends on what you want. Also those boxes can take 1/4 or mic plug so they work rather nicely
MBox is something you plug into before plugging into the computer. It basically just gives you a better signal to work with. You can plug a guitar/mic/whatever straight into a computer but you won't be able to get as good of a sound without some kind of preamp boosting up the signal. And yeah I think it works seamlessly if you have the Pro Tools editing software as well Re: drums, I'm just gonna program loops instead of playing drums. To me these recordings will be demos at best anyway. If I ever decide to make anything "real" out of them I could go back and have live drums but just to get a basic version of a song, programming drums will be way easier.
You can get a decent drinning program for not a lot (~$125). There problem with this shit, at least for me, is you can $100 yourself to death with little shit here and there. Start simple and add as you see the need imo
If you want a cheaper program than protools, I like Reaper alot. Also, Hydrogen is an okay free drum program.
Yea that's a good one. One guy who I watch some of his videos on YouTube said he learned on it and recommended it for getting started. Reaper that is
Ryan Bruce is his name. He has an enormous amount of videos. He does an FAQ on Mondays and some of the question are in the title. A lot of the stuff is geared around guitars(don't know if that is what you play) but a lot of it is about home recording. Think this is from today...
I can't put this guitar down. I know I sound like shit, and am doing nothing but getting my fingers used to moving around the 4 chords I know (G major, D minor, A minor, and C major), but this is a lot of fun. And this is really all I was looking for---something at least semi-productive to do on the couch while stoned on a weeknight. Got the basketball game on mute and just strumming, whereas usually it'd just be stoned, computer in my lap, and watching the game.
Good, don't. Alot of beginning musicians give up on the guitar in the beginning stages because of finger pain and whatnot. Power though friend.
Anyone bought an instrument off classifieds from forums? About to buy a banjo from a big forum. What's the best way to protect myself from a scam when I pay? Planning on PayPal, anyone had any issues working with them in the event something goes wrong?
I assume it's being sent via mail? If so, I have no idea, never done it. Have bought instruments in person via Craigslist before though
FedEx. It's a credible site, not incredibly worried but I'd like to have a piece of mind with the amount I'm spending.
been coming up with some of my own shit on piano the last few nights and looping them with guitar. roommate thought a couple of them were tight and is a all about some DJ stuff (not like skrillex/bassnectar/hardcore EDM, more like a Kygo or some of Deadmau5's lighter stuff) basically DJ shit but not dubstep. What would he need to be able to add I guess "beats" and random shit to the songs if I were to record them via Reaper? just an example: the song "Happy Birthday" off the new Kygo album. if I can supply the music part and vocals, what does he need to be able to make the rest happen