I'm Bored. Are you Bored? Want to not be Bored with me?
Ahhh the holidays.
I'm without my bass in the arctic wonderland known as Upstate NY. Which pretty much looks like this in every direction.
I do however have my fancy computing device which affords me the ability to mangle and mix sound. That's where YOU come in my fearless bass pioneers!
YOUR MISSION:
I want you to send me a bar or 2 of your bass playing OR other any other instrument you play.
I'll collect all the riffs I get and produce them with my laptop toys over the next week.
I'll post the results (for better or worse) on this blog and throughout the interwebs with full credits to everyone who participates.
Or - if you prefer - I'll leave your good reputable name off this auditory abortion leaving your participation totally anonymous. Your call.
For the sake of simplicity / interoperability there's only 2 rules.
Play to a click/metronome with a tempo of 110. (don't record the click track if you can help it)
Play in the key of E maj.
You can play in ANY mode of E Maj - but please confine your riffs to the key of E Maj.
Play in any time sig you want - just label what it is
Play with any effect(s) you want.
As simple or complex as you want. Doesn't matter. Don't overthink. Just hit record, play, save the file - and
SEND YOUR RIFFAGE TO ME
beautifulbass@gmail.com
mp3 is fine.
Let'r loose kids!
Comments
what kind of music are you looking for? jazz, rock, solo bass?
Posted by: Phillip | December 23, 2008 02:05 PM
Bro - you're already thinking too much.
play whatever you want.
As long as it's 110bpm in the key of E I'll make the magic.
You probably won't even recognize it when I'm through with it. ;)
now HIT THAT SHIT!!
Posted by: Jeff Schmidt | December 23, 2008 02:18 PM
Now we're talking! I can probably whip up something on the electric piano by the end of the day. It'll give me the incentive I need to get Rosegarden working like it should.
Posted by: LMX | December 30, 2008 12:20 AM
Well, I wasted one full day trying to get Rosegarden to function properly. The irony isn't lost on me, I switched to Linux to escape the corporate machine. Now that I have, I can't just go ahead and do my thing.
I think I'm going to continue doing what I planned on doing, to have a god damned vacation from everything. Heh so, sorry. I only saw just now that you actually made the request a week ago, so I'm guessing it's of little use now.
Are you happy with Ableton Live? Man, I could kill me a Mac right about now.
Posted by: LMX | December 30, 2008 03:33 PM
Ha!
No worries. The response wasn't that great.
I think I'll probably try this again when it's NOT a major holiday.
Posted by: Jeff Schmidt | December 30, 2008 09:12 PM