A welcome break from university work, a grand holiday with my family and may it continue however there is still work to be done and I am feeling the need to take on some new projects.
The other night I went to an open mic night with a few mates and we jammed a few songs and then I was asked to play again 3 times with different people playing acoustic, blues & rock numbers.It was rather awesome and there was a great response throughout the whole night and with this experience I have been talking to the Landlord of the Pub I work at and I may be participating in the open mic nights there doing a range of things from playing to organising the night itself so there will be allot to write about that in the new year.
My next project at the moment though is Session Composing.
I am going to be collaborating with friend from a Gaming course at university, writing music for the game levels he and his friends have had to design, exhilarating stuff and keeps me up all night working on so many things that push my creative boundaries.
Yeah I am excited and its awesome.
Sunday 26 December 2010
Monday 13 December 2010
Bringing you up to date......
November has seen a rough patch for me personally and has slowed down work on my project.
However I have quickly got back on track.
over the past two weeks I've put in roughly 24 hours work into the composing of the songs I will be recording for my website.
The first of the three pieces is a nice purely acoustic instrumental which exploits the finger picking technique in the rythm guitar parts whilst a soft but strong melody line is taken up by the lead acoustic using the Phrygian mode to add a spanish flavour to the piece.
The second piece is a more straight forward rock orientated peice, nice and up tempo with a good groove to tap your feet to and I've added in some cheeky little guitar fills in places you wouldnt expect them. I am most excited about this piece.
The third piece which I have begun but not yet completed is a funk inspired piece with allot of focus on the bass guitar parts to hold the groove with the guitar complimenting it, an intriguing piece to me as I have not structured it, I'm just letting it flow and see how it ends up.
On Saturday I am going to start the recording process for all the completed pieces so far after a recent purchase of some new technology to make my musical life ever more easy to express, this purchase is an M-box & pro tools software at a bargain price. Home recording all the way & means that the christmas break will be a severly busy one.
My latest action taken for my project was a photo shoot I had last night.
A good friend of a photography course was kind enough to do the shoot for me.
The photos will be part of my website and consist of shots from me playing to standing to the equipment and a very professional look to them.
Next week will see the full construction of my website also begins, I am keeping it underwraps for now from everyone and trying to make a decent launch of it.
So that is where I am up to now, I will update this again before the week is out and probably everyother day over christmas.
Sleep is calling me.
However I have quickly got back on track.
over the past two weeks I've put in roughly 24 hours work into the composing of the songs I will be recording for my website.
The first of the three pieces is a nice purely acoustic instrumental which exploits the finger picking technique in the rythm guitar parts whilst a soft but strong melody line is taken up by the lead acoustic using the Phrygian mode to add a spanish flavour to the piece.
The second piece is a more straight forward rock orientated peice, nice and up tempo with a good groove to tap your feet to and I've added in some cheeky little guitar fills in places you wouldnt expect them. I am most excited about this piece.
The third piece which I have begun but not yet completed is a funk inspired piece with allot of focus on the bass guitar parts to hold the groove with the guitar complimenting it, an intriguing piece to me as I have not structured it, I'm just letting it flow and see how it ends up.
On Saturday I am going to start the recording process for all the completed pieces so far after a recent purchase of some new technology to make my musical life ever more easy to express, this purchase is an M-box & pro tools software at a bargain price. Home recording all the way & means that the christmas break will be a severly busy one.
My latest action taken for my project was a photo shoot I had last night.
A good friend of a photography course was kind enough to do the shoot for me.
The photos will be part of my website and consist of shots from me playing to standing to the equipment and a very professional look to them.
Next week will see the full construction of my website also begins, I am keeping it underwraps for now from everyone and trying to make a decent launch of it.
So that is where I am up to now, I will update this again before the week is out and probably everyother day over christmas.
Sleep is calling me.
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