Good advice on a bench seat in Desenzano, Italy.
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@elsemusic@musician.social
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- sideSister, a duo with Leigh's daughter Aelyth
- May Joy, a virtual collaboration with the virtual voice of Solaria
- Leigh's solo music
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At the moment I'm putting effort into developing two daily habits;
[1] Singing exercises, and
[2] Writing at least a song idea, if not a complete song
The exercises need only take ten to fifteen minutes, but are increasingly important as I get older. The songwriting, of course, can take as long as I've got, so I try to limit it to half an hour.
A guitar neck for the sight impaired
How to make a bass guitar shine through in a mix.
https://graph.org/One-EQ-tip-for-stopping-woolly-bass-08-29
'Once you find the right spot, you should start to hear the notes themselves rather than just the low end rumbling underneath everything. That's usually the moment you go from thumping to melodic. It also means the bass becomes more audible than it was before, so don't be surprised if you need to revisit the balance afterwards.'
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
I wrote a song in 2008 which I've always thought one of my best ... but while it's been frequently performed live I've never been able to achieve a studio recording I'm happy with. I've tried at least four times, which is not a record for me: I have another song I rate highly which has so far gone to version 12. But I digress.
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Musical multi-tasking
The Cure's biggest hit
This is the swansong from my Korg Wavestate, which is now boxed for delivery to its new owner. It doesn't contribute much, really; just the pad and the percussion. The real work is done by the vocals ... and I really enjoyed writing and singing something snarky for the first time in years. There'll be no release for this (nearly seven minute) song; I just did it for the fun of it.
The Far Side
Web MIDI and vintage synths
McCartney plays bass for the Stones
Piracy vs streaming
Muting guitar strings
Guitars with extra strings
Vinyl and the environment
Sing a score
Artists and drugs
Dylan
RE: @mosgaard@uddannelse.social
A great thread on live vs produced music. Or is that electronic vs acoustic? Either way, a great read. Thank you @mosgaard@uddannelse.social ...
Irish guitar players
Zimmer, Nolan and Marr
Eric Bibb
The one thing holding your mixes back.
https://graph.org/The-one-thing-holding-your-mixes-back-04-24
'Indecision has a real cost in a mix session, and the "wrong" decision made confidently will almost always produce a better result than no decision at all.'
“Say, Will—why don’t you pull that thing out and play us a tune?”
No, this is not about having artificial intelligence generate artificial music. This is a web page which emulates the background noise of an AI server farm.
You could incorporate the output in your own music, of course ...
Exploring the anti-racist and social justice ethos underpinning the rocker's career.
'“Somebody threw a bottle at him and hit him in the head. It just exploded, shattered right on his head, and blood was pouring everywhere ... Five minutes later, he comes back onstage with a hardhat on and his head bandaged up like a fucking mummy. He grabs the microphone and says, ‘You fucking pussy cocksucker asshole! I’ll kick your motherfucking ass!’'
Musicians and cannabis in the twentieth century.
'[Louis] Armstrong found that cannabis not only put him in the right mood for playing music but also helped him cope with the daily indignities of racial segregation, which limited where Black Americans could walk, talk, drink, rest, or eat ... Armstrong once told white music producer John Hammond, who disapproved of cannabis: “It relaxes you, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro.”
As a teenager I experimented with using speakers as microphones with my reel-to-reel tape recorder. While relatively useless for recording music, they were useful for other applications.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17-paper-guri.pdf
"We introduce 'SPEAKE(a)R,' a new type
of espionage malware that can covertly turn the head-phones, earphones, or simple earbuds connected to a PC
into microphones when a standard microphone is not present, muted, taped, or turned off."
Replying to
@bgm I may risk missing a lot not using Facebook (many local music events are only organised and promoted there) but I'm pleased to miss things like this.
Mozart's notebook found!
Please don't listen to any sideSister music on Bandcamp Friday. We'd appreciate it if you would avoid both our albums until it's 2 May where you live.
Replying to
@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com I had a Yamaha 15 watt practice amp that did what you need, but it was mains powered.
Replying to
@strayhorse@c.im @bgm@musicians.today We have a CAD gold-sputtered large diaphragm condenser, but we put it in front of an ART tube preamp with built-in Antares autotune. We leave the auto tune either off or on the least invasive setting, but the tube warms the sound up nicely.
Replying to
@venya@musicians.today Somewhere in every city there's a grimy electronics repair shop, often looking as if it's closed, where casual miracles happen daily on equipment like this.
Replying to
@mosgaard@uddannelse.social The only good news is that this should be straightforward to fix and, hopefully, under warranty. Still, it's a pain.
Replying to
@strayhorse@c.im I record MIDI and audio at the same time on adjacent tracks. My logic is that if, later, the audio proves in some way deficient, I can always edit the MIDI track and/or change the patch, then re-record the audio.
Replying to
@ambientspace@cloudisland.nz I pay around NZD150 a year for a shared hosting account I can use for these sorts of things. It's an Aotearoa New Zealand company, although I think the server is in Sydney.
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@geoffduncan@mindly.social @Rob@musicians.today @GuitarSith@fosstodon.org @ambergrey@mastodon.social I'm a bass picker.
I like using my fingers, and can get more gradations of tone that way, but my longer (acoustic) guitar picking fingernails get in the way.
Please wait! Trumpet auditions in progress.
Replying to
@fstateaudio Best wishes for the new home. And I hope music opportunities still arise during this transition period.
The Wellington-based songwriter and singer's song 'Lighthouse' pays tribute to the remote Norwegian island where she grew up.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/the-song-is-a-tribute-to-the-resilience-of-coastal-people
''Lighthouse' begins with the lyrics in her Norwegian dialect and then in English for the body of the song, she says.
“The song is a tribute to the resilience of coastal people living by the coast. But it's a song about hope and a reminder that there's a safe path, I think, through rough waters.”'
Replying to
@herr_irrtum The song isn't really thrash anyway, but I couldn't think of a better tag at the time.