Re: [LAU] good players

On 9 November 2007 at 21:31, Svend-Erik K Madsen <sv-e(a)sv-e.dk> wrote: Sounds good to me. How do you want to start? Maybe with some introductions? I'm quite happy in a rock format. My favorite stuff is progressive rock (Kansas, Dream Theater, etc). My least favorite stuff would be twangy country & rap. I've played originals and covers of tunes in rock, blues, Balkan, Caribbean, Latin, polka, Dixieland, Celtic and electrified classical. I've co-written songs and lyrics, and individually written lyrics. I've been a big part of arrangement, recording, and production in my prior bands. None of this ever "went anywhere". But, we did stay at the top of the local band sales charts for a month once in one band, and another band had several gigs playing for hundreds of folks, dozens of whom actually came to see us play. I play an 8 piece Ludwig kit with a variety of cymbals and percussion. I have a Bodhran, bongos and a few hand percussion toys. I record with Audix & AKG mics through a Soundcraft mixer into an M-Audio Delta 1010. I routinely use Audacity, Ardour, Rosegarden, and Amarok. I'm happy to learn other Linux audio programs, and have used others too. I've done some remote collaborative recording, even though my band mates all live within a 20 minute drive. Our guitar player wrote sketches of the parts he wanted on bass & drums. The bass player and I would fill in or adapt what he wrote, we'd practice as a group and play some gigs. To jump start the recording process the guitar player would multitrack record his final guitar part, a click, and audio versions of the MIDI parts for the other instruments onto individual tracks. The bass player and I would each get a CD with all of this on it which we would each load onto our computers. I'd bring that into Ardour. The bass player used something else, and the guitar player yet something else. WAV files on CDs was one common denominator and it allowed our recordings to be sample accurate (not that our playing was) even though our computers all have different clock speeds. The clock speed issue is why I couldn't record along with my MIDI system and expect my drum tracks to align with a guitar recorded on another system. Do you have any music ready for a drummer? Do you want to start from scratch? Should I come up with some grooves and send them your way somehow? Maybe you could introduce yourself too? I think it's a good idea for LAU to see some of this discussion as it might help us all get an idea of how to grow Linux involved music. Cheers.... P.S.: I'm getting ready to be away from the list for about a week and a half. Don't think I disappeared. -- Kevin