Google Day and Electronic Drumset

Today during our 1 and 1/2 hours I acted as a mediator for two different groups while writing songs. I would piece what they had and tell them to glue it all together, without writing anything new. I will be recording these projects as well for them.

I also got a electronic kit, and as you can see, the time I'm posting this is 1 oclock in the morning. Time flies when you can just play drums forever. I got this kit mainly because it is much easier to record basic level sounding electronic kits than it is to mic up a acoustic kit. Since I can use the MIDI output on my rolad td-11 module (the brain for the electronic kit) I am going to hook up that midi information to EZ or superior drummer which takes drums samples and uses them, producing a much more realistic sound. This is what was done for Peripherys first album as well, so the quality of production will be much higher than it was last year.

Google Day

For this google project I worked on Art of Bop drumming. Most of it was triplet over jazz ride independence between my right foot and left hand. Other groups also have started to talk about their projects, I am now doing the drum tracks for two different projects! My traditional grip chops have been getting much better because I am using it more, but rolls and doubles with the left hand are still not as solid as I would like them.

Acoustic Panel Update

I finished building a total of 1 panel today. It takes a surprising amount of time to build one, but the next few will go by quicker. I have to buy more burlap though, because there is a lot of it I can't use because I have to cut and trim and what not. I hope to have three done by the end of this week, but we will see. I have some pictures, but I want to make an album of the process so I will upload them later.

Creating Acoustic Panels RIGHT NOW

I am currently making three acoustic panels. This isn't that many and will barley effect the room, but I will post pictures and results in a a couple hours!

Weekend Status update

I just got all the materials together to make some acoustic panels. I will be assembling them tomorrow! I have enough fiberglass for 12 panels but I will only be making 3 tomorrow. I will record basic sound (just using a camera mic) which will show the before and after of the room.

I am almost done with ghost on the dancefloor, there is a incredibly difficult area to transpose for about 30 seconds. Out of that 30 seconds I spent about thirty minutes trying to figure out the first twelve.

2nd sucks is covered. it was not a hard song to figure out, If time is generous I'll record it tomorrow.