Your biggest Weakness

[continuous]

My biggest weakness
is weakness...








That and very little understanding of the principles of music theory...


Feeling quite mopey...

[kb420]

Maybe I finally just need to grow up..

Fuck you! How dare you say something so heinous on this forum. I know that the moderators are pretty lenient here, but I really think that you crossed the line. I can't believe your nerve.



I'm 38 and I ain't never gonna grow up.

[re.mark]

It's a toss-up between a) not being able to stay focussed throughout the process of creating a tune and b) not being able
to translate the melodies I'm hearing in my head into actual MIDI sequences. Whenever I start playing those keys, it just
cocks up the entire thing.

Did I mention that I have the attention span of a

Sing/hum/la out the tune/melody and record it into live, then once uve recorded your voice emulating it, you can really nail each note, and can come back to it another day without forgetting it

[sporkles]

Sing/hum/la out the tune/melody and record it into live, then once uve recorded your voice emulating it, you can really nail each note, and can come back to it another day without forgetting it

Yeah, I've tried that; but I can't carry a tune worth shit

It works OK-ish with whistling, though,

[ChrisIhao]

Getting pad to blend in nicely. Before I used to think that pads were the easiest parts, but then again I probably just used a bunch of reverb and mashed it all together without further consideration

[deHaan]

Remembering to strip a song to it's basics, as most of the time less is more.

Same here

[Sage]

It's a toss-up between a) not being able to stay focussed throughout the process of creating a tune and b) not being able
to translate the melodies I'm hearing in my head into actual MIDI sequences. Whenever I start playing those keys, it just
cocks up the entire thing.

Did I mention that I have the attention span of a

Sing/hum/la out the tune/melody and record it into live, then once uve recorded your voice emulating it, you can really nail each note, and can come back to it another day without forgetting it

I usually play things on guitar, then tap the tempo in and turn on the metronome and watch roughly where I'm hitting the notes in a clip.
But I guess that requires being able to play guitar.

[ChrisIhao]

Remembering to strip a song to it's basics, as most of the time less is more.

Same here

Good point. Some years ago it was all about putting as much crap on top of each other as you could process. Its painful to listen to now.

[Big V]

Maybe I finally just need to grow up..

Fuck you! How dare you say something so heinous on this forum. I know that the moderators are pretty lenient here, but I really think that you crossed the line. I can't believe your nerve.



I'm 38 and I ain't never gonna grow up.

[Big V]

Maybe I finally just need to grow up.. :

Overrated, be a responsible child.

I hear ya! But in this damn city / country it's especially the people behaving like responsible children that frighten me the most..

Probably it all comes down to my laziness!

[kb420]

Hey Big V, you need to chill. You're way too stressed out man. You need to get some of that Green Sticky stuff, roll it up, and play this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE0b9XzrjeE

Keep it stoke man!!!!!

[stringtapper]

Taking on too many things.

A typical day this semester has involved: teach college freshman sight singing and ear training for two hours, transfer old 1/4 tape to digital (many of which are Ampex 406/7 series with sticky shed) for a few hours, go to a graduate seminar about how Schoenberg would analyze Brahms, go back to the preservation studio and transfer some 78s to digital, write some pages on the master's thesis (topic: voice leading in post-tonal music), go home and work on the score to an independent film, have the director over to work on mixing the independent film, practice bass for an hour or so (mostly improv over changes lately), practice chapman stick for an hour or so (learning tunes), pracitce piano for about 20 minutes (learning not to suck ), do some reading and analyze some Brahms for the seminar. And then after all that I might get to open up Live and write something for fun, maybe (lately it inevitably [d]evolves into a M4L coding session). Add in running sound for some random shows, random singing and trombone church gigs, and a week-long opera tour that occurred at the worst possible time and you have a case study in "what to do if you hate yourself."

Ok I admit, I'm just using your thread to vent and it has nothing to do with production.

But seriously, I'm so busy I can't even binge drink properly…

[H20nly]

^ you need to get laid.

[Big V]

Hey Big V, you need to chill. You're way too stressed out man. You need to get some of that Green Sticky stuff, roll it up, and play this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE0b9XzrjeE

Keep it stoke man!!!!!

Fuck yeah! Actually I'm currently in the process of letting go. This involves that all the shit that has been buried deep inside comes to the surface now. But I'm on my way, bro! I'm on my way!

Thanx for the link! Enjoyed the music!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sUEe4TMlcg

[v0ins315]

Finishing tracks. I start up Live in the mindset to play with a recent track & instead always start making something completely new. The cycle is a bitch.

Sometimes the "something completely new" is better than when ya started though .

I have the same problem as you. I like to try everything lol. By the time I'm half way through I have something better but WAY off track.