Jandle wrote:

Grah1 wrote:

jan  get  well   soon    hope  it  doesnt  hurt  too  much

Thanks Grah, cracked ribs are worse than the broken bones in my arm.  But thankfully, ribs are on the mend.  I can now get in and out of bed without pain!

Wishing you a quick recovery Jan.

Thanks Peatle, over the worst of it re my ribs thankfully.  2 more weeks to go be this cast on my arm comes off, can`t wait!!!!     

OK - sorry I missed October but here is a song I wrote. 
This pretty much is about my wife and I 
I am going to post under songwriting as well - I hope its ok.

Yes, you can enter the FSOTM even after the month has completed ... I did a quick check, and I couldn't see the words aligning with the November FSOTM, but it would be possible to add it there if some words were changed (and you were so inclined!)

Cheers

Richard     

Love’s Odyssey By Jim Kenyon

neophytte wrote:

Jandle wrote:

I loved both of these neophytte.  You nailed them both.  The spider one we have heard b4 and I enjoyed it just as much as the first time, probably more.  In both, the visual ambience added to them.   What were you using on the second song to change the vocals?  What camera are you using to film as it scans around the room?  Very affective and adds to the total performance.

Thanks!! A while ago I traded my Zoom R24 recorder up to a Zoom L-12 recorder (you can see it on the desk in front of me in a few songs), which allows me to record tracks individually - so the guitar is on one track, the vocals on one track, the keyboards on one track - then I run it through Logic and tweak each track and balance everything out. It's a bit of a process, but something I enjoy playing around with ...

For the video, I've just got two iPhones on stands; when I've completed the audio as above, I drop that and the two iPhone videos into iMovie and use some Ken Burns effects and cross blur and things like that ... it's another thing that you get better at the more you use it. 

Cheers

Richard

Oh how I wish I lived closer to you neophytte, to learn about all this stuff from you.  I am such a novice with all this stuff.

YouTube is a great source of info these days, even when I had the R24 there was a bunch of "how to's" for it .. the rest is experimentation ...

You'd be sucking back on your Pina Colada in your multi-million dollar mansion, of course!!

Cheers

Richard

Grah1 wrote:

jan  get  well   soon    hope  it  doesnt  hurt  too  much

Thanks Grah, cracked ribs are worse than the broken bones in my arm.  But thankfully, ribs are on the mend.  I can now get in and out of bed without pain!

Wishing you a quick recovery Jan.     

jan  get  well   soon    hope  it  doesnt  hurt  too  much

Thanks Grah, cracked ribs are worse than the broken bones in my arm.  But thankfully, ribs are on the mend.  I can now get in and out of bed without pain!     

JAN

OH NO !!!

Hope your arm recovers quickly and you are not in much pain.
Glad you will be still checking in, always enjoy your feedback !

Jim

Thanks TIGLJK, thankfully no surgery required (which at one stage the Drs were talking about).  So halfway to recovery and cast taken off.  Then the hand technician (as they call them these days) to help with recovery.  I am missing playing but this too shall pass and I hopefully will be back with a vengence      

Grah1 wrote:

Anything  go's heres  one    from todays  gig in Lancaster  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCzM4ZV9fr8
and  one  from 10yrs  ago  for  Richard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkicwMwuCPo

The newer one was pretty good (had a good sound for what looks like a phone only video), but the pub looks pretty empty ...

For the older one, were you using backing tapes or a looper??

I was chatting with someone the other day and I'd forgotten I'd put this up a while ago from 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVnirXS … ;index=108

Cheers

Richard

neophytte, sound quality was of the era, but I totally got the vibe   Wish I had gotten into music when I was younger rather than in my more mature years lol, wonder where it would have led .......     

Anything  go's heres  one    from todays  gig in Lancaster  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCzM4ZV9fr8
and  one  from 10yrs  ago  for  Richard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkicwMwuCPo

Nice Grah, partculary liked the one with your mates in Lancaster.     

Jandle wrote:

neophytte wrote:

To get things going, here are a couple of my songs some friends and I worked on:

Spider in a tree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf7lwfmfNFM

Today is the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SrtarwVX1c

Enjoy

Richard

I loved both of these neophytte.  You nailed them both.  The spider one we have heard b4 and I enjoyed it just as much as the first time, probably more.  In both, the visual ambience added to them.   What were you using on the second song to change the vocals?  What camera are you using to film as it scans around the room?  Very affective and adds to the total performance.

Thanks!! A while ago I traded my Zoom R24 recorder up to a Zoom L-12 recorder (you can see it on the desk in front of me in a few songs), which allows me to record tracks individually - so the guitar is on one track, the vocals on one track, the keyboards on one track - then I run it through Logic and tweak each track and balance everything out. It's a bit of a process, but something I enjoy playing around with ...

For the video, I've just got two iPhones on stands; when I've completed the audio as above, I drop that and the two iPhone videos into iMovie and use some Ken Burns effects and cross blur and things like that ... it's another thing that you get better at the more you use it. 

Cheers

Richard

Oh how I wish I lived closer to you neophytte, to learn about all this stuff from you.  I am such a novice with all this stuff.     

your  solo  strumming  sounds  great  Richard

Thanks - that was long ago!

Cheers

Richard     

richard  the  old  vid   was using  prerecorded  loops  into  a boss  rc3

I wish I was that imaginative, I just did solo guitar strumming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIy4B2SPLvM

Cool - camera illusion ...

Cheers

Richard