I don't have Idioteque for you yet...

[AustinG]

"these are bottles, not lollipops"? What's that about?

Thank ye, mate. That's an allusion to someone sucking down bottles one after the other -- as in, ease up, sober up. You've got your mouth on the bottle constantly, like it's a lollipop or something.

Ahh gotcha.. Thanks... How did your plays go?

Very well, thank ye much! High marks, optimistic about making the cut. Now I need to find a job for the summer before I bounce a rent check.

Ah good to hear..

Rent....an evil thing... at one time... if you told people they had to give you something to set up shop and live, they wouldn't believed you, or listend to you...

I've ben such a procratinator lately... playing and writing a bit, but not recording a thing.... been putting together a new studio computer... hopefully it will kick things up a notch... Have you worked on anything?

[lyrics101]

"these are bottles, not lollipops"? What's that about?

Thank ye, mate. That's an allusion to someone sucking down bottles one after the other -- as in, ease up, sober up. You've got your mouth on the bottle constantly, like it's a lollipop or something.

Ahh gotcha.. Thanks... How did your plays go?

Very well, thank ye much! High marks, optimistic about making the cut. Now I need to find a job for the summer before I bounce a rent check.

Ah good to hear..

Rent....an evil thing... at one time... if you told people they had to give you something to set up shop and live, they wouldn't believed you, or listend to you...

I've ben such a procratinator lately... playing and writing a bit, but not recording a thing.... been putting together a new studio computer... hopefully it will kick things up a notch... Have you worked on anything?

I'm working in a little riff I like. In counts of six. I'll try to tab it out for you.

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B7 x8           Asus2
.......................................................................
--2-----0---   --4---2---0
----0-----0--  ----0---0---0
---0-0---0-0   ---0-0---0---0
-1-----1----   -2-----2---2
2-----2-----   0------
-------------   -------

Fiddling around with something like that.

[AustinG]

cool, I'm starting to get a little more focused now this computer is done... Finally have everything working.. no more swapping cables... Now that I have no excuse to track things out I'm still finding it hard where to start... What instrument do you usually start with?

very cool... I've always been partial to anything in B...

Since you went through the trouble of tabbing that out, I recorded a short cut of what I'm working on as of late.... dig it?

http://www.sendspace.com/file/jc0cn4

[lyrics101]

I always start with the guitar or piano -- the most basic thing. I add whatever I'm using for a bass riff to it; sometimes a bass, sometimes I octave down the guitar, piano, whatever it is that fills it out.

Here I usually start adding the main vocal part; just one.

I bass the drum riff off of what the instruments are doing here. The kick drum always follows the bassline, the snare fills out the guitar part. It always needs to match up to me (except in cases like The Anniversary Party or A Wedding Party; the Grooms Meet, where the electronic sound is intentional). I hate it when the drum stands out; it needs to fill out the music.

It's good to buy a metronome.

I'll listen to that track when I'm on my own computer -- this is a friends.

[AustinG]

Sweet, thanks for your take on the process.... I do need to start recording more with a metronome... I find it hard to play with passion if I'm not singing and playing... I am getting better at... just don't have the full equation yet...

I finished up a few good versus last night.... going to try and keep it up tonight.... Record that new riff, I'd like to hear the timing on it..