Saturday, April 17, 2010

Name that tune

Nothing much of note. House of the Rising Sun isn't being nice and recording easily. In the meantime, I did get this little snippit recorded for a future endeavor. I'm bringing in a ringer to sing which ought to be a fun experiment.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

New Developments

So I bought my son myself a Fender Stratocaster. I've been casually interested in guitar, but not as much as piano. However, when my son showed some interest as well, I couldn't pass up the opportunity. I'm likely going to get him a Fender Mini for his birthday. Ah, who am I kidding? I know I will :) I should definitely be looking for a cheap amp on Craigslist though.

When I told my piano teacher, he said, "That's funny. I just picked guitar up again 2 weeks ago." He's been helping his daughter make a CD. She's playing piano and doing vocals. He's doing the recording, percussion, and guitar. He had me listen to it and it's pretty good, though, I'm a sucker for Nightwish/Evanescence/Within Temptation style stuff, so I don't know that I'm a good reviewer.

I was planning on taking a piano break this summer and taking guitar lessons instead. Larry said I could just bring my guitar by any time and he'd start my instruction that way. He's not an expert, but he knows enough, and has been teaching long enough that I'll get something out of it. Since I'm very comfortable with him as a teacher, and he's been very generous with his time, it seems a good plan.

In other news, when he was showing me what he could do with his new Les Paul Epiphone, he had a drum machine doing a backing track. That was impressive so I've been did a little experimenting and research and am going to try the same. I ran through some guitar chord changes with a backbeat and it definitely makes playing more interesting. I'm going to have to see how complicated it is to go with a full track for an entire song. It would probably work well with House of the Rising Sun, but I'd like to get a recording in the next couple weeks which doesn't leave me with a whole lot of time for learning the software.