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Friday, June 13, 2008

Instead of showing pictures tonight I wanted to share something else with you instead. I don’t really get to play my guitar very often and when I do I try to enjoy every minute of it the best that I can. So, tonight I just decided to pick up my acoustic guitar and see what happens. The very first notes that I played ended up being what I am posting here this evening. It just sounded cool and I decided to try to record the basic idea. For ease of use I like to record in Mac’s GarageBand program which is pretty simple and works well. For any musicians here I used my Carvin C980 acoustic guitar and a PODxT directly into the computer with headphones. For an hour and a half start to finish it just doesn’t get much easier than that.

Now I have to say that I don’t get to practice much so my timing is not that great but instead of recording parts over and over to get them right I just usually make sure that I have the idea down and then do it all in one take on each track. I didn’t know what to call this so since it is Friday the 13th I thought that was a good enough idea.

I figured it would be worth a blog entry until I head out of town next Wednesday... So, I hope you like it. I had to add the image for the blog template so it really has nothing to do with the music. I just like the colors... It’s the London Eye at night. Until next time...

Okay... so a quick update. I played this for Michelle this morning and on the very first run through she starts singing a melody line which sounded like it would work great. So, I break out the guitar, computer and stuff and here is what came out of another half hour on a Saturday morning. I sure wish I had the technology to do this twenty years ago! Musicians and photographers these days really have some great tools at their finger tips.

Oh, and this is a picture from on top of a London tour bus of some sort of creepy museum. Still, I’m trying to just figure out how to post the song and not have to use a picture with it but at least the song actually plays! Still learning how to use iWeb...