HeyJaredTrying To Make Music
a journal of my attempts to make music (with Ableton Live and Push 2 on a Windows PC).
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SoundCloud (opens the original)
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Gosh, SoundCloud is addictive. There’s a lot of AI crap on there, much of which I have been ‘liking’ to get cheap follows to boost my profile and I must stop doing that (it’s not a competition, Ben!). Ok. There’s also a lot of really good music on there, some of it with plenty of fans, some of it with very few plays/followers/reposts, it really doesn’t matter.<div class="image2-inse
Loopcloud (opens the original)
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Quick follow-up to my last post where I was on the verge of recording original vocal and guitar compositions. I got hung up on getting the lyrics to this one song right and progress stalled there.Went round to David Smur’s (of musicsocial.net) place for a session of making music (using computers, not guitars). David tapped a few buttons on his rather impressive Apple tech and showed me Loopcloud. Knocked up a track in ten minutes. Wow!And Loopcloud<
Songwriting (opens the original)
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So... been a little while... it’s been too long. Substack writer and up-and-coming composer Rita wrote this article How to Write A Freaking Song. It was late at night but that doesn’t usually stop me so I went and wrote a song. I’m on it again now, back in creative mode with the music. The really helpful thing about this article for me was the advice to film the work in progress so I can see what chords I am playing on guitar (it’s actually not all that easy to film). It’s much less the visuals
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