Showing posts with label Rehearsing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rehearsing. Show all posts

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Life gets in the way

The biggest challenge at the moment seems to be finding the time to do music, and I am sure I'm not alone in this - life just keeps getting in the way.  For once I have a surfeit of new material all ready to record and perform, but no time to work on it.
Curiously there's plenty of spare time in the office - but you can't record there... ( I have managed to become a bit more active in the forum world - so thats step 1 of the plan underway)
Given that time is limited the temptation is to make a list of all the thing I want to do, this is fine as long as you don't actually expect to get them done!  What to do instead?  Well I guess what's required is to ensure that any "spare" time can be used to the full - and I have as plan for this!
1. Practice - make sure there is space available to play.  And get my teach yourself this, that and the other books out so that instead of random riffing or knob twiddling I do a few pages of one of them
2. Rehearsal - I want to play songs at open mics in the area so set up amp, mic and guitar and sing the songs I want to perform "as live".  And decide which songs they are going to be.  And learn them properly so that I don't need the music :-)
3. Recording - Get the basic right. I have a tendency to record lots and lots of tracks of "almost" parts, the majority or which get muted/deleted from the final version.  So I am going to concentrate on 4,5or 6 tracks for each song and get them right (well played/recorded).  If the song desperately needs a final additional kbd part that can happen later.

So with my new highly focused methodology I should be able to build my new album and gig circuit.. step.. by painful...step.