Growing up, I remember admiring this guy that wrote songs, played guitar and sang. He did the whole band thing and invested in synthesizers and drum machines. He fell in love, got married and became a banker or something. I remember asking him how his music was going after he got his job and he said that he had one night a week devoted to it. I wonder how long that lasted once he got married.
It seems to be a common journey for musicians. I have become the same and …

Well I finally finshed the demo of the song I started way back in 2003. I’m not gonna say too much about it, I want to hear from you the listener. What do you think? How does it make you feel? What kind of thoughts does it make you have?
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*I don’t claim to be a singer so just imagine a real singer on the track – I have David Brooks in mind.
Closer
V1:
Roll it over, try again,
Do we hope for something more?
Nothing’s new and nothing has been,
Any different than before.
Bridge:
And a …

Well, not too much is going on. I spent Saturday evening trying to finish a song I wrote a few years ago. I’ve got a few more parts to finish out and add that one last element that adds the “okay now it’s done” factor. I’m not quite sure what it is yet but that’s the fun of it I guess – I’ll know it when I hear it.
It’s just me singing (with LOTS of pitch correction) but I want to write more songs and see if they are viable …

I saw this valentine yesterday and wanted to pass it on to my lovely bride:
Roses are #FF0000,
Violets are #0000FF,
All my base,
Are belong to you.
Anyway, I’ve been pursuing the music pretty hard these days. Making really rough demos of songs is progress but I had a pleasant surprise this past weekend. I took some scratch guitar and vocal tracks from ProTools and imported them into Garageband. With all the tones, loops, tools and such it has available, making a pretty polished demo out of a rough scratch track …

Perception plays funny tricks on me. I don’t know why but home repair has always seemed unreachable to me. Maybe it’s fear that don’t want to screw anything up. Or maybe it’s that I’ve never taken the pretty faceplate of the light switch to see that it’s just a big hole cut in the drywall. My friend James help me install an over-the-range microwave. He’s like, “Just cut a hole in the cabinet for the power cord.” My reaction was something like, “What?! Cut a hole in the cabinet?! Are …

Well I’ve got my ProTools rig set up again – I even have the cables wrapped. Just need to replace a few balanced cables that seem to be shorted out. In the meantime, I’m unbalanced. And now for something completely different…
Have you ever been invested in? I can think of several people that invested in my songwriting back when I was in school. They donated their time, equipment and gifts to see my gift taken farther. We recently studied the parable of the Good Samaritan and wrapped it …

Could it be that my day has come? Could it be that I could actually sing on a recording and have it be in tune? Maybe so folks! Apple just announced their 2005 products yesterday and while the $499 Mac is the show stopper, I am most excited about GarageBand 2. Before now, any pitch correction software has been outrageously expensive. I don’t know to what quality it is or if there are any limitations (like having to always apply it to an entire sound block or track) but now …

Well I took the ADAT to church on Sunday and recorded the music. Except for an acoustic guitar pickup producing less than acceptable tone, a noisy bass and a lack of keys (I direct outted the wrong channel on the board), it turned out pretty good. This week we added a new band member playing bass so the old bassist moved to his first love – electric guitar. We just mic’d a small marshall with a 57 and it sounded great. Now we just need a kit – I’m currently …

Well I’ve got a new little site going live this weekend – just need to do last minute content tweeks. It is for a commercial real estate appraiser and consultant, Miller Real Estate Advisors. So if you need any of this type of work done then be sure to check out www.millerrea.com. I’m also ramping up to work on a staffing company site.
It’s funny how whenever I say I’m going to focus on music, web design projects start falling in my lap. I wonder what would happen if I say …

Yep it’s that time of year again. The time where I go down in the basement for Christmas decorations or whatever reason and think to myself, “What a waste of resources.” I have this perfectly good music studio that isn’t being used for two reasons. The lack of time (or motivation) and a couple of missing gear links. I have one computer with an outdated OS but has Protools on it (industry standard recording software). The problem is I have a lack of external synthesizer tones for it. Then I …