A recent survey of the CMB (no, not the Cosmic Marijuana Branch, the other one, it’s Microwave Background one) has shown that an overwhelming majority of photons strongly agree with the following statement:
“Can’t wait for the heat to die off and get out of here, so as to then finally respond to this survey.” Also, on a scale of ℏ to 10, a large majority again would describe things as a “very crowded.”
Poor little things don’t have a proper notion of time apparently. Fortunately, or not I suppose, turns out that out of all the many possibly probable and impossible worlds out here, or in wherever dimensions somewhere thereabouts this is, it adds to ending up in the only one in which the Multiverse doesn’t exist. So it might take a while before we get to find out just who was banging whom exactly.
Just to be honest for a quick second before getting into what I really wanted to write about to you today. Before falling on disability because of injuries and illness almost 10 years ago, which includes having survived through cancer, I had been playing classical guitar almost my entire life. Although I never got to have music become a source of livable income, I first started on the piano as a kid, then electric guitar and bass before making classical guitar my main dedication at some point between college and university. I also have increasingly bad tinnitus, pretty bad anxiety, and am somewhere out there on the spectrum. A whole bunch of things that aren’t making aging any easier.
I’ve been playing the drums almost exclusively for about five years now, after a few year of ‘forced retirement’ I actually needed to take a break from the guitar … If I had one thing to tell my past self, it would be to learn drums younger. I had plenty of opportunities to do so, despite the guitar being such a demanding master. After buying that acoustic bass last year, well, one thing led to another and now I can’t get off those nylon strings again. Happened at some point between taking a pause from the sticks and recording Scalar Feels. The video embedded below, also available as an audio file here. I have fun playing drums, writing for the drums I have no idea.
So I’ll end up posting about the new stuff at some point, I just spent almost two-months working on getting Accidental Notes ready for recording, etudes 26 and 27. It’s all classical guitar. It doesn’t really fit in with any of the other stuff so far, so the three pieces that make it up are getting their own album name. A demo version, the recording I’ll have on youtube at most a few days after posting this, is already on my bandcamp page.
I should be done with writing at this point, and aside from learning or re-learning some classics, I’ll focus on stepping up my drum workouts. I’ll be sharing the notations for all the latest music, not making it much of a priority though, unless I get some feedback or requests for it to convince me otherwise.
So no other projects going on this time posting here, I’ll give myself some time to hopefully make a better take of that last one before sharing it proper. Part 1, the Carnival in G, was going to be it’s own thing, but trying to end it making sense led to Part 3, Folk Jazz in E, which led to the thing being 10 minutes long. Part 2 turns out to be lots of fun so it’s all worth it I think. If I can’t get my best takes on them all at once, then I’ll settle for recording them separately instead of just cutting them out in parts in editing :D It just really makes more sense for the video to have it all in one take.
Hey there, just a quick post to give an update on my latest track, Alien Party Horn. I really screwed up with the initial upload, the kick track wasn’t there and I hadn’t really noticed how much it messed with the levels on the synth. So I had to replace it, which turns out ok since I also took the opportunity to record live video of myself playing it on the guitars.
Apologies for the severe lack of content these past few months, I’ve been working on several different projects and studying hard at music, spending practically every able minute I can on my instruments. Sadly, the harsher effects of my chronic health problems really hit me hard over the winter, so I didn’t come around to producing (recording etc) as much as I would have liked for you.
Hope you enjoy this one though, and hoping to find enough time to properly share about what happens in-between these posts before the next one since obviously, practicing and having fun doing it, and making music, is my first priority.
Lots of updates this time. Again, I waited an extra week before posting as I was working on something extra special. The news is that I now have a bass guitar I can record with, so I had to practice hard to get live bass into this next track.
Once more I see the deadlines I set for myself come and go… sigh. I really don’t know what to say about it at this point, it’s been over a month. Anyway, the bass for the track has been done for several weeks by now, and the track has already been uploaded to my album on bandcamp, along with the next one, RH-19, or Nylon Blue as it seemed appropriate to call it.
I’ve been eager to share some of my music, but I wanted to make a point of posting about it here first, for the few of you who’ve been following for awhile and still, despite the long hiatus and inconsistent content, still hang around and check out my stuff. Freshly uploaded to bandcamp yesterday, I think you’ll like this one.
Not going to say anymore, it’s been a long couple of weeks and I really want to close this file. Check out my links :D
Not so great. The year is almost half over, and I’ve yet to change much about this place. The site’s plan isn’t much expensive annually, still, I set myself to make more use of it or get rid of it, as for the past few years I haven’t been using it much at all.
The notation for it is here. You can get a hybrid-kit-MIDI mp3 version too. At 120bpm, it plays all the parts in order as per notation, then after repeating the intro it plays them in reverse order (and hey, it’s digitally quantized so guarantied not to swing!).
It’s my take on a Double-Kick note value ladder, or pyramid. I didn’t manage one complete loop-around in this clip, so it fades-out at the end, but I did reach the re-intro and even up a few rungs, so stretch-goal partly achieved! yay! I’m working it from 60 to 96bpm, you can tell I’m pushing myself a bit.
-My latest recorded attempt at 85bpm.
So there it is. Next for this, I hope I can share a full loop of me playing it (like the mp3 basically, and as fast ideally), tighten it way up, and really nail those transitions and feel for each part.
I haven’t posted in longer than I would have liked again, so it seems like there’d be lots to update about. Things are still improving and the situation is positively better. I’m definitively getting work done on being organized, even if overall there much cleaning up to get done. Keeping up a steady schedule is happening, and holding up for longer periods of time. Despite this important personal progress in learning harder and working smarter, the past few months haven’t been all that productive per say.
I’ve been dreading recording a video for this month again, with no painting anywhere near ready, not much else to write about otherwise, and having fleshed out an idea for Rabbit Hole part 5 already, that is however exactly what I did.
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