Teeth will be provided, oh yes!
As the child of two professional musicians, it was inevitable that music would be an integral part of my life. These are all of my posts related to music: my own, other artists, production and studio technique, synthesizers and music tech, and more.
I woke up this morning with the music, melody, and overall production of this one completely formed in my head. And, of course, immediately decided that I’d stolen it. But it was too compelling for me to lose that off chance that I hadn’t stolen it. My morning routine is normally: get coffee, sit in the living room, pay attention to the dog, go upstairs, listen to yesterday’s song, write my blog post, do some … Continue reading
This will be a somewhat abbreviated post because I’ve actually written my song for February 4th and I want to get to it before I lose the muse. Let’s quickly go over this one, though. My writing day got started a little later than usual. My morning was largely spent writing a blog entry, fixing some style things on the website, and other musically-non-productive things. Then it was dog park time. And then the dog … Continue reading
After the general success of yesterday’s track, I was itching to play some more guitar. I need to get better at it, but I have trouble with practice. I’ve been unable to learn modern programming languages because I need a project to write… I can’t just do exercises. It’s the same with instruments. My practice comes from actually producing a project. “Wait a minute,” you might say. “There’s no … Continue reading
Well. That escalated quickly. So much for simplification. As I’ve mentioned before, over the last 4-5 years, I’ve felt a lot of unnecessary pressure to come out swinging on the first day. A lot of Day 1 songs have been strong, but whether that’s because I have some creative reserve or just “let’s get started” energy or even just a happy stroke of luck… well, your guess is as good as mine. As I have … Continue reading
Another year is here. I’ve been both looking forward to and dreading it. More the former than the latter, though. Every… many of the years… I dabble with some form of rules or restrictions to help provide me with focus or a challenge. One year it was alphabetized titles. Another it was “never do the same style two days in a row,” or “You can only use X number of instruments per track,” and so … Continue reading