Song :: Still Not Satisfried

This is a song of happy accidents again.

Also one, that started with a whole bunch of steam, and kind of petered out. I have started my usual process of sitting on a song, so I am releasing it today, just to be done with it.

So, was trying to find an effective means of practicing a muted thumb technique on the bass guitar, and the bass line came from that. The chords came next. When I began to put this into ableton, the melody elements was the first accident. Saving the file was the second. The percussion bits were the third. All of these in a row.

Drums I feel needed more work. I am not happy with the sounds, but again I need to stop sitting on songs.

The guitar parts were all played straight into Ableton through my PreSonus interface. I have had the 22VSL for some time now and I have been happy with it. Especially its portability. That has come in handy quite a few times.

https://soundcloud.com/31ric/still-not-satisfried

Drooble Link

Mr. Bill

I have just discovered Mr. Bill the artist, and his you tube channel has quite a few Ableton videos on how to get better, so I am looking forward to the next track where I can incorporate some of these.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDxTQYPyq4JTRvdmYDiykyOdoEjjyuQgI

First Song

No, this is not the first song I wrote, but it is the first song I have completed since purchasing Ableton. The first song of 2020. I am calling this one finished, as I just am not 100% sure what to do next with this. Thus it is also the first song on a resolution to start finishing things, and not just endlessly tinkering with something, and not really doing much with it.

I learned a lot while working on this track. A lot of the quick shortcuts or keyboard combinations to move through Ableton quicker. Still lots to learn about FX, arranging, producing mixing, etc. The quest continues.............

I originally started this track a few years ago, when I was just tinkering around with the NI Maschine. It is greatly inspired by my good friend and drummer Jon Leavit who I have worked on many theater shows. The line that he inspired originally was the bass line, but I switched an instrument, moved it up a few octaves, and it becomes the melody. There is a delay on the melody, but many of the notes are not the delay, but me programming them in, and then lowering the volume to give the element of a decay.

In the past the Maschine has always been the quick way for me to create a drum part, while I work out the guitar or bass line to a song. This is the first song that I combined Maschine and Ableton, just to see what would happen. (and completed!)

Anyway, here is the first song I am putting out there in many years.
Hope you enjoy.

Digging the new DAW

Have to say, that I am really enjoying Ableton 10. It has been quite many months since I was able to do anything musically on the PC, so the program has been installed and not really used in the past few months. Anyway....

A couple of you tube videos, and I am off and running.
Thanks Antonio & Reverb

So far so good.
Ableton fits nicely with my previous experience with Sonic Foundry/Sony Acid & Native Instruments Maschine.

Hopefully some out put will be coming soon.

Show Tomorrow Night

Come check some jazz and some great artwork tomorrow at http://www.lillstreet.com/
Playing with my jazz trio starting at 7 PM CST.

some more thinking time

Here is another article from The Trichordist. This one is quite long, and very distressing if you are an artist. I really like how he breaks it down into simple to understand terms. You are willing to pay a little extra to make sure your coffee is fair-trade, but you can't afford to support the artist you love by buying their CD.

Ouch!