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Comment on songwrite yourself to the next level by Rabbit

Rabbit — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:26:14 +0000

I completely understand this! I write parts that I thought up of and can somehow record it but it’s hard to play live. Even if I can play/sing it, the problem is usually singing and playing it at the same time. (I usually play bass and sing. I don’t think about melody when I come up with the bass part or vice versa…so often I have to figure out how to play it togeter after it has been recorded.)

I have performed songs without playing an instrument by making a karaoke track of my music.
However, I don’t think of myself as a singer as much as a player. So playing and singing at the same time is important to me. When it’s really hard I on ocassion simpilfy the bass line but I don’t like to do that either.

Comment on ocarina, anyone? by Recording Questions

Recording Questions — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:24:05 +0000

Mario + Ocarina = always a good time.

I don’t think we have any questions about those up on the site yet.

Thanks for the great post.

Comment on ocarina, anyone? by sarah

sarah — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:17:36 +0000

I have several ocarinas =) It’s a pitty, that there aren’t more websites about ocarina music on the web…. :-(

by the way: the ocarina IS NOT a weird instrument ;-)

Comment on recording vocals (part 4) by Alan Khalfin

Alan Khalfin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:30:49 +0000

Good tips! Thanks.

Comment on about by RickG

RickG — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:21:40 +0000

Hey Audiot!
Thanks so much for following WinkSound on twitter.
I came by to check out your blog, i like it and have subscribed to your feed. Look forward to reading your thoughts on music and production.
Rick G
http://music.winksound.com

Comment on one price you pay… by audiot

audiot — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:55:33 +0000

wow! just noticed that the comments look pretty freaking cool in those different light-colors. wooooooooooooooo

Comment on one price you pay… by audiot

audiot — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:51:57 +0000

thanks, Joe! i tried atomkeep which seems to be a great thing and sites like reverbnation or bandcamp should be a great help as well. i just haven’t been able to really get into one of those so it can do what it’s there for, d’oh. but i’ll check out friend feed as well and i really appreciate all the help i can get. maybe i should get myself a pr-manager :-)

Comment on one price you pay… by Joe

Joe — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:26:43 +0000

Have you tried Friend Feed or something like that which can aggregate social networking efforts?

Comment on whoaa! freaky times… by audiot

audiot — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:43:48 +0000

no way! this is a respectable website :-)

Comment on whoaa! freaky times… by Melle

Melle — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:35:20 +0000

An uncovered secret about a bagpipe?
…

Does it also involve a kilt??

Comment on no harm done… by audiot

audiot — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:08:43 +0000

wow, thank you! i’m gonna post all the disgusting details about the creation of this…..thing right here during the next few days. each song, each decision, the whole mess. but here’s two infos right now: get the book “Guerrilla Home Recording” by Karl Koryat – and read it of course :-) and second, apart from recording the vocals (Cubase LE 4) i did everything with Reason 4 and a Macbook. everything. if you decide to use Reason (or already do), get the book “Powertools for Reason 3″ by Kurt Kurasaki (maybe there’s a newer version) as well. that’s about it! all other infos will come in the next entries, there will be one about the drums as well…

Comment on no harm done… by Dié Lagma

Dié Lagma — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:34:17 +0000

and i was about to ask: ‘how the hell did you get this incredibly fat sound out of your drumkit? wow, please teach me how to do that!’ i’ll change that question now to: which samples, please? and, you being a drummer, how did you play them electronically? on the keyboard?
but anyway: great sound, cool atmospheres and one of my all-time-favorite-in-your-face-album-kick-offs: ‘RRRAAAH!’ Great!

Comment on let it snow… by audiot

audiot — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:09:46 +0000

thanks a lot! i had a shopping-cart-plugin but for some reason it’s gone (from the plugin-download-library as well…). i will check out the donation plugin, right now i’m making the songs of the rpm-album available for free. but if someone wants to buy me a drink (or a bungalow) then she/he should have the option ;-)

Comment on let it snow… by Dié Lagma

Dié Lagma — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:58:17 +0000

There’s a pay-pal-donation plugin for wordpress. haven’t tested it yet, but for anyone w/ a paypal-account that would be a smooth way of purchasing/ donating for your moosic right here on the site.

Comment on let it snow… by audiot

audiot — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:26:54 +0000

yay, thanks Joe. that was faster than lightning :-) i’m gonna check it out as soon as i get a connection with the computer again. although it seems i can do some blogging stuff with this pocketweb-thingy i’m using at the moment – real surfing with it is quite a pain in the behindypart… cheers.

Comment on let it snow… by Joe

Joe — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:46:40 +0000

Hi Hadrigg,

Try using http://drop.io/ It is an online file sharing service which allows you, among other things, to set up a pay-per-download service. I haven’t done much with it myself but it might be worth checking it out. Look for the paywall service which allows you to charge people for access to your drop.

Comment on damned groove… by John

John — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:59:35 +0000

I love this album and own it.

Damn this groove is a joy. I’m counting it as alternating measures of 9/8 and 7/8… which resolves over 8/8(4/4). I love how Carlock flattens this out in the drum into driving 4 on the floor right over the pattern… love it

Comment on the craftsman-syndrome… by Dié Lagma

Dié Lagma — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:28:05 +0000

yep, i know that one too well. my way of escaping this phenomenon is twofold: on the one hand it leads to compositions, which literally take years to complete ‘themselves’ (and we’re not talking about large-scale stuff, just some 3-5 minute instrumental pieces for guitar and piano, say) on the other hand it leads to ‘instant composing’, or improvising.
i don’t particularly like the usual improvised music, which mostly sounds somewhat empty to me, but i do like that point, where composition and improvisation get close to each other. a piano teacher once told me, that the great improvisors (in the classical realm) set out for a tour of improvisations, work on the same themes every night and by the end of the tour, they have a complete composition. well.
anyway, i guess, when improvising, things happen much faster and you just don’t have the time to worry too much about ‘quality’. you gotta keep going anyway, and if it sucks, you gotta change your path, quickly.
when i think about those glorious situations of composing, where the ‘craftsman syndrome’ (i like that one!) is absolutely absent, the term that springs to mind is: ‘FLOW’. when you enter the flow, things just happen, and no scepticism or quality control interferes.
but then, the thing is: for me, it takes a lot of time to ENTER the flow.
alright, enough of this.
i think it’s a good thing to blog things like this. to me, sharing the inner aspects of the process of making music seems very much worthwhile and helpful.

Comment on no-brainer? by Joe

Joe — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:22:09 +0000

Impossible!

Comment on 200th entry and some maintenance… by audiot

audiot — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:45:52 +0000

thank you very much! i guess the slowing down is more of a plugin-problem – not sure though… i’ll find a new theme and go over the plugins again, hopefully it will get better. slow sites are quite a bummer…