Welcome to my Lair!
A few things:
1. All my archives are now only code, no pages with pictures and nice text show up. As usual, I blame Blogger. I should probably blame me, but I have enough other problems to worry about.
2. As you may know, I am doing a little project this year where I make a recording of 1 cover song a month. In all actuality, I have recorded several songs and will decide as the year goes on what gets to be each Song of the Month. At first I thought I would plan it all out meticulously, but now I think I'll just record whatever suits my fancy and then sort it all out later.
3. I made a little movie with a sort of inside view of Lair, the project and the place. It's about 67MB, so maybe a good old "ctrl-click, save as" would be the best way to watch it, if you are so inclined in the first place.
4. Remember, I never claimed to be any good at any of this music stuff, but I do enjoy it.
5. We have rules for this sort of thing: even though Garageband has hours of loops, everything I record has to be a real instrument, played my me. Guitar effects, amp simulations, doubling and sound effects are fine, though. I try (as much as possible) to sing with my own voice. Even though all the songs are covers, there's no need to impersonate. Along that line of thinking, it's not necessary to recreate the originals note-for-note. So, it's kind of a game. And a saving grace. (Don't worry, cycling fans, I'm still riding, only it's January, so it's all on the trainer. I did send away for a cycling DVD that's just roads out in front of you--sorta like the log on TV at Xmas. This one's cool cuz it's Alpe d'Huez and it's got recommended cadences in the corner so you think you're actually climbing the beast.)
A few things:
1. All my archives are now only code, no pages with pictures and nice text show up. As usual, I blame Blogger. I should probably blame me, but I have enough other problems to worry about.
2. As you may know, I am doing a little project this year where I make a recording of 1 cover song a month. In all actuality, I have recorded several songs and will decide as the year goes on what gets to be each Song of the Month. At first I thought I would plan it all out meticulously, but now I think I'll just record whatever suits my fancy and then sort it all out later.
3. I made a little movie with a sort of inside view of Lair, the project and the place. It's about 67MB, so maybe a good old "ctrl-click, save as" would be the best way to watch it, if you are so inclined in the first place.
4. Remember, I never claimed to be any good at any of this music stuff, but I do enjoy it.
5. We have rules for this sort of thing: even though Garageband has hours of loops, everything I record has to be a real instrument, played my me. Guitar effects, amp simulations, doubling and sound effects are fine, though. I try (as much as possible) to sing with my own voice. Even though all the songs are covers, there's no need to impersonate. Along that line of thinking, it's not necessary to recreate the originals note-for-note. So, it's kind of a game. And a saving grace. (Don't worry, cycling fans, I'm still riding, only it's January, so it's all on the trainer. I did send away for a cycling DVD that's just roads out in front of you--sorta like the log on TV at Xmas. This one's cool cuz it's Alpe d'Huez and it's got recommended cadences in the corner so you think you're actually climbing the beast.)
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