record a demo

I bought the mBox 2 w/ProTools at Guitar center last month? Also, I bought a mic, a pop filter and guitar/mic cables. once i get my mac notebook i’m all set to record. ALL SET.my songs are coming along nicely as well. woot!

my last entry got me thinking about blogging on my different music styles.

so. I’ve been writing quite a bit. I even wrote a song…not quite finished yet all on piano..no words. just keys. a song that is most likely reminiscent to Clint Mansell scores. I do enjoy his pieces. I’m even thinking about adding some sort of electronic music to it….kind of reminds me of that old DJ Shadow song, Organ Donor.

The other songs that I’ve written are more slow acoustic and somewhat jazzy songs. I’m glad I’m over this ethereal music stage..at least I hope so for now. It’s really quite annoying when I write music that doesn’t even suit my voice, so I don’t even want to perform them because I know my voice enough to KNOW when it WON’T sound good.

Anyways, I guess you could say I’ve been expanding musically. It’s fun to get creative and I’ve been doing it for the past year and a half by listening to all sorts of new music. Not stuck on this blues and pure jazz phase that I was on for quite sometime. my voice has changed. I like light blues like Corinne Bailey Rae, coffee-house like Rachael Yamagata or A Fine Frenzy, pure like Priscilla Ahn or Mandy Moore, well, I see Mandy (yes, I AM on a first name basis) finding a new niche in music, embarrassed by the candy shit music she put out in her previous records..and quite frankly, she should be. So her voice, as pure sounding as it is, I hear a raw-ness coming about as well. Anyways, her songs along with many pop artists have the common hook that drags so many listeners in, but where is the quality? Where is the depth? Alright..i’m not going to get all …’lets find true, REAL music’ on this topic because thats not what its about. I’m glad Mandy is finding a new niche and better quality music because her voice deserves it. Point is, music is an art form. Vocal quality, instruments, intonation, resonance, vibrato, beat, rhythm, accidentals, and dynamics are the tools and colors you need to paint the big picture: the song. I don’t know why it is so important to me, but it is. Music is an art that has been so heavily tampered with.

Lets leave it at this. I don’t like anything that is contrived for the masses. Do not make music to make a quick buck.

As catchy a song it is in the clubs…Heidi’s dream ( from The Hills) was never to be first and foremost a SINGER. That is Chicken poo for your ears. And Spencer’s rapping is terrible. but, I think everyone knows that. But this is a prime example of quick money making. LAME.

Oh, this is not a quick money maker, BUT, it is poor quality music for the masses. The song called “TATOO” by Jordin Sparks. I personally love Jordin Sparks voice. I saw her on American Idol, and I’m sure the writers wrote that for her because she’s about 18 years old. But still.. the lyrics to that song are horrendous. I didn’t even know it was her singing that song until my friend pointed it out. Because when I first heard that terrible chorus I turned it off.

“You’re still a part of everything I do, you’re on my heart just like a tattoo,
Just like a tattoo, I’ll always have you.”

What the F is that? I’m not THAT poetic..but I can sure as hell figure out something better to say than…you’re on my heart just like a tattoo. I thought she sounded like any other r&b young singer on the radio (paula deanda, jojo, etc) when in fact she is an AMERICAN IDOL. Meaning, she should stand out.

I’m not going to get into this anymore..my head hurts. I don’t even know why I started blogging about it in the first place.

OKAY, my new avenues: piano scores, jazz, light blues, rock, electronic?

atleast give a people a taste of what i love to do.