Gswitz

I'm a learner, but I do post YouTube vids of me learning.

Seems like the teachers are happy at Artist Works. They set up real schools that take years to work through the lessons they want to teach and they have lots of interaction with the students. Caution, the caliber is kinda high. Edit: One more thing... if you're good and you can make videos for youtube, you can get a following. You can begin making money once you have about 1000 subscribers. There are definitely talented people making a living at this.

John's pretty steady. He's probably reacting to someone. Just my opinion. John, you're ok. Merry Merry.

You want to be the teacher? Or teachee? I use artistworks.com for lessons. They are organized and build on each other. You pass videos back and forth between you and the teacher. You can see all the lessons your teacher has taught any student as well as the submissions from other students. If you are the teacher and want real time, Skype or zoom would work.

Oem licenses for Windows don't switch hardware nicely. Make sure you have a full license. If you don't mind assembling it. New egg sells parts. Going with minimally sufficient power supply decreases heat. Some video cards have a low noise variant. In general, for computers in the room while recording, fan noise is one of the negatives you can try to manage for. Purrfect audio is owned by a cakewalk user who can be consulted on builds for a small fee. https://studiocat.com/opencart2/

So much fun! Thank you!

@craigb I'm sorry man, that sux.

Might have been in the Subway at the airport.

I have long suspected the Russians use Cakewalk to steal my VST settings and sell them on the open market!

Nobody cares that while tipping a musician in an airport I dropped in all my change and the key to my strat case. Still stings 20 years later.

I wish over the years i did a better job of continuing to jam on old projects. I've largely been forward only. I vaguely remember tunes from ten years ago, but i can't really play them. With all the practicing I've done, i sometimes feel i haven't gotten good at any music... Just quick at learning the next song. I am particularly poor at remembering the last song. For 3 years I've been taking artistworks lessons. This has worked for me. I'm about to finish the beginner lessons. ? One reason it has worked is the lessons echo back to things you learned in earlier lessons. This makes it possible to learn trickier things in short time windows, which is helpful. @bayoubill i love taking mismatched rhythms and working something up. It really stretches me. You don't have to look for something that works with your playing... Grab something in the approximate tempo range and try to fit your having tracks in. I find one of the most important things i do is change the tempo. I'll practice a lot, shifting the tempo up or down with every session, so i don't get locked in to single tempo. At a friend's tonight, we played to a metronome for a half hour or so.

https://gswitz.blob.core.windows.net/tunes/20190630_ChrisVasi_23.mp3 If I only had a brain...

This is Jerry Garcia playing to Phil Lesh's son, Grahame on stage. Note he isn't wearing standard earplugs. I'm pretty sure those headphones do not have a music feed from the board. I think they are just like the things you wear at the gun range. I think this because of Phil's book. He talks about this photo in the book. This is Phil and Grahame more recently... I can't tell for sure, but it looks like Phil is wearing in-ear monitors. In his book, Phil does talk about how he felt in-ear monitors actually damaged their hearing faster because of the sound they were used to. He wasn't a big fan of them at the time he wrote his book. But if he's wearing them on stage now, he must have worked out some of the kinks.

I think this is a joke. High fidelity ear plugs just aren't really a thing. You can mess around to find the thing that bugs you least but they all massively distort the sound in the room. I'm not saying not to use ear plugs. I totally do when I'm listening to a loud band up-close. I'm just saying I think the search is fruitless. Honestly, I find cheap earplugs to be my go-to b/c they are easy to get at the drug store on your way to the gig.

I once went to telluride bg festival one weekend and the dead in Vegas the next. Telluride was heaven. Vegas was like the other place.

@craigb you aren't suggesting we give up cocaine are you? Just sugar, right?

Hang in there, Wibbles!

You don't have DPC issues, do you?

My grandfather wouldn't give any clues. They'd ask... do you drink? He'd say, 'If you can't tell, the answer's no.' ?

My kid's school had a 2 hour late start due to the google thing. She said it was like a modern snow-day. (Since Covid, Snow-Days have been meaningless.)

I know I'm not the norm, but I'm just quick at rebuilding my system drive. I don't make backups prior to updates. My computer is just for my hobby. I don't impact clients when i reinstall. But starting fresh just isn't that hard for me. I almost never need to, but sometimes i swap in a new drive.

You don't have the track you're exporting muted, do you? In that case the time will show correctly on the mp3 and the now time will progress, but there will be no sound.

You do charge family and friends double, no?

Dweezil is such an amazing rock star! I never miss a chance to get out to see him. One of my favs.

Vocal sync is the cakewalk feature for tightening up vocal parts where people are singing together. It's neat in concept. If you have a group of people singing the same part with 100% isolation (no mic bleed) it can be used to tighten up the set without doing tons of manual adjustments. Mic bleed can complicate it. It can still work out with bleed. Your ears will tell you. I have used it sometimes. It's a tool I don't use unless it's required. For the type of music I tend to work with, I rarely need vocal sync.