Completely Lost | How To Bounce Back From Musical Setbacks
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- Опубликовано: 13 дек 2024
- We all suffer setbacks in our music, and I just encountered a big one having written an album’s worth of music for one drummer only to find out he can’t make the sessions, and I have to start again from scratch.
This is my process for getting through something like this, and how I don’t let myself get too stressed as it works itself out.
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Instantly, I hear your idea at 5 mins as a Celtic piece. Great topic to talk about - being lost musically. Thanks
Goddamn that is a gorgeous bass :)
Easy is good..when it means accessible and good compositions. And when you add with well written harmony, rhythm, melodies, soloing..it is an album I’d love to hear
Sometimes an unexpected change of plans can represent a new opportunity to view things from a new lens. Perhaps you will find something even better than you imagined, especially considering that you will be playing with great players that will all add their own flavors to help the final result shine. Nothing like a deadline to keep you laser focused.
You need a deck of Oblique Strategies from Brian eno
Will 'Alone' be coming out on RUclips Music?
I'm actually not sure if it was submitted to RUclips music. That's a fairly new lane, and I don't have much experience with it.
Is the "Alone" album downloadable at all, or only available to stream?
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That's the sound of the bad technique - man, this should be written on the wall with all caps.
Fret wraps are now super popular and you mentioned the social media and it's basically same thing kind of issue: people can't keep their focus for a longer period of time and the same applies with frep wraps: you are not patient enough to improve your technique, you want to have that instant effect of playing something that (in that person's mind) sounds awesome without bothering about the technique.
That's the difference between being a musician with instrument and a composer that doesn't really care about the technical aspect of playing a specific piece.
Imagine going to a symphonic orchestra performance and seeing the first violinist with a wrap. That'd be hilarious.
I once had a fretwrap:
- not durable
- when it broke I realized I didn’t really need it.
Because YES technique matters, the best thing I’ve done has been to use 5 strings only for years, it forced me to master all the right hand techniques with the obsession of calming down those B string parasite vibrations WITHOUT any trick: open thumb a la Patitucci, floating thumb all across the strings, anchoring the thumb at the right place when needed, understanding dynamics and amp’s gain stage with right hand attack, man… I’ve learned so much more that way indeed .
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Detach for a bit and do something completely different for a week if you can or at least a couple days. Come back to it with a fresh perspective.