May 21

[EmbersOfAutumn]

Wednesday is here. Testing out our Disaster Revoery Protocol here at work. Pretty boring, straightforward stuff.

Last week or so has been pretty humdrum and boring. Even with family visiting this weekend, it ended up a bunch of crap about my wife wanting to get a brand new cell phone and how much it cost. Wrote and recorded the song for this week just to relieve stress, but the vocal track came up messy sounding.

QotD: What is your favorite musical technique to perform?

While this changes based on the style I'm playing, I always have fun alternating between standard-timed notes and triplets on piano. A few songs I'm listening to and I want to try and learn on piano has sections where the bass runs triplets for an entire page and a half while the treble keeps with the normal 4/4 timing. It's very interesting to listen to and is gonna take a lot of practice to get the timing right.

[king_arthur]

QotD: don't know if this quite fits, but "very melodic and busy bass lines." This is probably because I'm the bass player in our band at church and it would be kinda boring to just have to sit there and play 1-5 all the way through the song... plus, we don't have a lead guitar at all, so I feel sorta entitled to play fills and stuff.

I think this is leading me to reduce the instrumentation in my recordings - Empty Wednesday is basically just drums, bass and guitar with a lead guitar that pretty much only plays during the lead bits. The rhythm guitar and the bass get panned out to the sides, and since the bass is busy, it doesn't feel empty on that side.

This is also probably influenced by the fact that I've been doing songs over at tuneflow, and they serve up the review versions of the songs in mono, so all my clever "two guitars panned hard doing interesting things against each other" stuff tends to turn into mud in the middle.

Got a pretty much un-committed day today, waiting to see how I did in Nur Ein, and if I survived, getting going on the next episode.

The original "Oceans 11" is on Turner tonight, looking forward to that. We lived in Vegas in the 60s, so when I see the Strip in that movie, that's how I remember it...

Charles (KA)

[Rabid Garfunkel]

QOTD: Uhhh, half-step progressions (like the first two notes in a flamenco phrase) either up and/or down. Is that a technique? Or just incompetence

Hey, have the smilies changed? That lol should be subtitled "seizure"

[Hoblit]

DRC: moderate day at work. Lots of standard DSL issues (which obviously affects VOIP) though.

QOTD: I don't know if I have a FAVORITE, but things I like to do:
1. Bass on standard root of first chord in progression but jumps to 'busy or scale' on second chord in the progression.

2. Using chords 3 string chords on the bottom (or highest) three strings on the guitar when doubling guitar parts.

3. I like to bend my vocals from the root to somewhere else, usually up a step. I probably should focus on some kind of freaky jazz or blues. If I didn't think Punkability was such a narrow focused market I'd probably be perfect for the genre vocally.

[Reist]

qotd: What do you mean by "perform"?

[EmbersOfAutumn]

qotd: What do you mean by "perform"?

Basically - "The action of playing music" (not necessarily live or anything--just when playing)

[drë]

Is singing off-key a musical technique?
I do it all the time, and I do it well.

Also palm mute guitar playing and Brazilian bossa nova in a nylon guitar.

[Hoblit]

Is singing off-key a musical technique?
I do it all the time, and I do it well.

Yes, but is it your favorite thing to do musically?

[EmbersOfAutumn]

Is singing off-key a musical technique?
I do it all the time, and I do it well.

It is if alcohol is involved.

[drë]

Is singing off-key a musical technique?
I do it all the time, and I do it well.

Yes, but is it your favorite thing to do musically?

ahhh, crap. i didn’t see the keyword favorite in there. Probably because i was too busy trying to be funny, but now i look dumb. That’s the story of my life.

[Hoblit]

Is singing off-key a musical technique?
I do it all the time, and I do it well.

Yes, but is it your favorite thing to do musically?

ahhh, crap. i didn’t see the keyword favorite in there. Probably because i was too busy trying to be funny, but now i look dumb. That’s the story of my life.

Nah, its cool, you only LOOK dumb. *snickering

[drë]

Nah, its cool, you only LOOK dumb. *snickering

fucker.

[rone rivendale]

QotD: If computerized stuff counts in "performing" than my favorite little guilty pleasure is adding organ to my songs. I just like the way it sounds.

Otherwise if only real music playing counts my favorite thing would be playing the scales on my guitar. Cuz umm, that's all I can do so far. lol

[Billy's Little Trip]

QOTD: My favorite thing to do is also my weakest part of my songs. I enjoy doing back up vocals to my main vocals (or other peoples vocals). It's always enjoyable for me to find that half step, pitch or varying range (not sure of the musical term) to fit nicely with a lead vocal track.
I wanna singggggggggg!

[EmbersOfAutumn]

It's always enjoyable for me to find that half step, pitch or varying range (not sure of the musical term) to fit nicely with a lead vocal track.

Harmonics?

[Billy's Little Trip]

It's always enjoyable for me to find that half step, pitch or varying range (not sure of the musical term) to fit nicely with a lead vocal track.

Harmonics?

Nah. I don't use African American slang in my songs, much.

What I like to do is more of an integral multiple of the fundamental frequency.
....dang, what is that called? Drawing a blank here.........drawing a blank.

[Hoblit]

It's always enjoyable for me to find that half step, pitch or varying range (not sure of the musical term) to fit nicely with a lead vocal track.

Harmonics?

Nah. I don't use African American slang in my songs, much.

What I like to do is more of an integral multiple of the fundamental frequency.
....dang, what is that called? Drawing a blank here.........drawing a blank.

In case you don't get it, he's making an Ebonics joke there...and the answer to his question can be found in the quote directly above it.

*took me a second*

[ujnhunter]

In case you don't get it, he's making an Ebonics joke there...and the answer to his question can be found in the quote directly above it.

*took me a second*

Ebonics? I *love* dat shizzle man!