HI gang,
I thought id do a little update.
Of late ive been spending a lot of my free time focusing on music making. Ive also taken up surfing again, which I havent done since my teens. The sun has been a bit brutal to my pale skin. I suck at it but Im having soo much fun.
Musically there has been some wonderful new ideas and discoveries, and at work I count the miniutes till i can be back in front of my machines to bring my visions to life.
On the flipside I have many half finished ideas, that just need a little extra love to finish the song structure and then on to mixing......
Not really much else to share, other than I have been rather upbeat and content of late which has been a positive and enlightening change after some difficult times in the past.
Three cheers for that.
I hope your all well, safe and enjoying the beautiful sunny days.
Ill drop by soon and reply to your journal entries... for now I have to run to work.
and here is something i was just reading... thought id share
Brian Eno on writing lyrics (heavily paraphrased)
Brian has a series of systems for tricking himself into writing lyrics. To start writing lyrics is hard enough, but to start writing lyrics is downright difficult. Ones mind is mediated between the overbearing critic and the playful child, in more or less his own words. Brians procedure for lyric writing is designed to short circuit the critic by not writing actual lyrics at all to start with.
Brian starts shouting along to a backing track and getting what he calls a syllable rhythm, which means he nuts out a rhythm that suits him and works for the song.
After that, he refines things down to sounds with perhaps the odd word, keeping the proceedings fairly meaningless. Then he actually figures out which words fit best to those fragments. Then he sorts out sentences, and finally he refines a meaning into the song at the end of it all. He's a keen one, that Brian.
He produced U2 and named/pioneered ambient music, you know. Then again, he's also very smart and may be able to make this method work simply because his huge brain can fill in those gaps really well. Try it anyway one day if you're stuck for an idea.
I thought id do a little update.
Of late ive been spending a lot of my free time focusing on music making. Ive also taken up surfing again, which I havent done since my teens. The sun has been a bit brutal to my pale skin. I suck at it but Im having soo much fun.
Musically there has been some wonderful new ideas and discoveries, and at work I count the miniutes till i can be back in front of my machines to bring my visions to life.
On the flipside I have many half finished ideas, that just need a little extra love to finish the song structure and then on to mixing......
Not really much else to share, other than I have been rather upbeat and content of late which has been a positive and enlightening change after some difficult times in the past.
Three cheers for that.
I hope your all well, safe and enjoying the beautiful sunny days.
Ill drop by soon and reply to your journal entries... for now I have to run to work.
and here is something i was just reading... thought id share
Brian Eno on writing lyrics (heavily paraphrased)
Brian has a series of systems for tricking himself into writing lyrics. To start writing lyrics is hard enough, but to start writing lyrics is downright difficult. Ones mind is mediated between the overbearing critic and the playful child, in more or less his own words. Brians procedure for lyric writing is designed to short circuit the critic by not writing actual lyrics at all to start with.
Brian starts shouting along to a backing track and getting what he calls a syllable rhythm, which means he nuts out a rhythm that suits him and works for the song.
After that, he refines things down to sounds with perhaps the odd word, keeping the proceedings fairly meaningless. Then he actually figures out which words fit best to those fragments. Then he sorts out sentences, and finally he refines a meaning into the song at the end of it all. He's a keen one, that Brian.
He produced U2 and named/pioneered ambient music, you know. Then again, he's also very smart and may be able to make this method work simply because his huge brain can fill in those gaps really well. Try it anyway one day if you're stuck for an idea.
i only really know about post-production but SAE is not looked on particularly highly, and certainly doesn't help get a job, but then again not many courses do. it's the old story of lots of work experience and having enough background technical knowledge and experience to able to take and opportunity when it's presented...
AFTRS do some really good short courses every now and then...
if you're going to learn any system, learn protools........