I have been looking forward to this for decades. (It's weird to be old enough to say that!) There's never been enough time. There's never been enough money. I never had enough knowledge. But now I am embarking on a most exciting adventure. I am going to be making music.
Late last year in a moment of self pity, I recognized that I rarely take time to have fun. Then I panicked that I could not even think of anything that would remotely be called fun. Finally, I remembered: I love playing music. Though I never make resolutions, I resolved that I will make time to establish myself as a music hobbyist - a recreational musician.
I began my musical hobby journey looking for decent information about recording digital music, especially information about using my chosen digital audio workstation (DAW) software. Most information I found assumed that digital music needs to sound electronic, and seemed to give only a taste of superficial information for the purpose of enticing you to purchase more complete information.
I stumbled across a very useful FREE online course that not only gave me the basic info I was looking for, it confirmed to me the wisdom that you learn best when you have to apply the knowledge, and then explain it to others. That course led me to create this blog site, and also led me to find various resources for demonstrating concepts using video, audio, text and diagrams.
So now, I intend to use this site to demonstrate the things I learn about music production. I intend also to share some of my musings and the ways I think about various aspects of music performance. Hopefully, if you've stumbled here you will find something useful, interesting, even inspirational.
Finally, I would like to leave you with my rule #1 regarding the internet:
Pay for Nothing!
You don't have to spend a fortune to do most of the things you want to do. There are many very useful and powerful tools available online that cost little or nothing. When you are doing it just for fun, you're not necessarily looking for a record deal. But maybe you want a few hints to squeeze the maximum value out of the the tools you already have, and then learn enough to make sensible decisions about when to part with your precious cash in exchange for tools that will actually add the most value to your efforts - that value being measured by your satisfaction with the results and your enjoyment of the entire process.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope to post something at least weekly. Next week we'll start with how violating rule #1 got me off of square 1.
