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Well it's easy to sound as if you play keyboards using GB/midi .. quantise, move notes and the delete button come under heavy use .. in reality I couldnt play anything live, my chord changes would be too slow with far too many wrong notes. |
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Apr 27, 2010 | 5:29 am |
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Up at 3am (Phoenix Time) for an insulin fix. 
Thanks all for your comments!
I hope no one has taken offense to my post. I was, in my own far from delicate manner, trying to point out that so many here post tunes and never mention on the song or in their profiles that they play keys.
ShadowOfNine- guilty as charged. Unlike many of you who can play multiple instruments, I play one instrument and make it sound like many. But I really wish it was the real thing.
Gary Lester- If you have anything you'd like to collab on, or if I have something posted already that you'd like to do some tracks on, let me know. PLEASE! Same goes to everyone.
Vixen- you are a living instrument... need I say more.
I also love your idea of an iComp band. Maybe we can use technology to do a LIVE, realtime, online virtual concert. Saturday nite live jam sessions?
Peace out- keep them card and letters coming!
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Apr 27, 2010 | 6:52 am |
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Hey Greg, I did have a few formal lessons on piano when I was a pip squeak as well as trumpet. I had the great luck being in a musical family so I got the chance to dabble on different instruments but never was accomplished in any form. One thing I did do was practice drumming and playing the guitar this helped a great deal in playing live situations though I did not have any formal training in either of those instruments. I believe any instrument that I pick up no matter what it is I could find a way to create something on it.
As far as collaborating with your style of progressive music I would not hesitate to do so.  |
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Apr 27, 2010 | 9:28 am |
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nop i dont even have a midi kb lol |
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Apr 27, 2010 | 9:42 am |
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I do not play keyboards. Hell, I can barely strum guitar chords. But I know how to read music and can select a quarter note and place it on a staff while holding down the command key and clicking a mouse. |
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Apr 27, 2010 | 10:40 am |
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Beatle128.... what's a quarter note? |
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Apr 27, 2010 | 12:13 pm |
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Heh. |
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Apr 27, 2010 | 1:06 pm |
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Hell I use delays to get quarter notes... LOL |
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Apr 27, 2010 | 1:32 pm |
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I am far too dense to use a computerized instrument to create anything musical. Digital 12 track recorder is as close as I can get to the ones and zeroes. |
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Apr 27, 2010 | 4:32 pm |
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Quarter notes? I am a pro- I use the whole note, not just part of it!
I use computerized instuments. I never said anything I create is musical. ' ' |
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Apr 27, 2010 | 6:30 pm |
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i used to use a keyboard and i am taught how to use keys but at the moment i have no such tools so its either muse and draw the notes or laptop keyboard there thats my answer to this |
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Apr 27, 2010 | 6:45 pm |
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Nope. I only play trombone. |
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Apr 27, 2010 | 7:10 pm |
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LOL Really enjoying this thread. I think it's kind of cool for various reasons - brings out things in people that may not come out otherwise.
Greg - I think I mentioned to you that I wanted to work with you since you do keys, right? If not, it's in my draft queue! LOL I am always wishing I had more pianists to work with, who are willing to work with me on new pieces. For some reason, they are sparse on the ground here. The ones who work with me most often here have turned out to be bass players, guitarists, and synth players (if I literally count only people I collab with who create new piano music for me to work with).
I put keyboards in my bio because I depend on them so much but I only had two full years of piano when in college and didn't keep practicing steadily so I can improvise on a piano but can't play pieces by other people easily. As I get older, I improvise better but surrender to other people's tunes less and less! If I could play piano, I feel I would be the happiest person on earth but it may never happen in this life. I will just have to keep collaborating. Luckily, I love to collaborate with other people. 
One thing I love about my midi keyboard is that I can practice when my husband is sleeping without disturbing him, and I can control so many gorgeous virtual instruments using one. I also have a midi guitar and hope to use more of that in future songs.
BTW, I have a weekly jam session on Fridays where all of you are welcome! At the moment, the only way I know to get us all on the show is through e-jamming. But, I'm open to other suggestions! Please consider hanging out with me and improvising one Friday (or every Friday!).
BTW, iComp has produced a few 'supergroups' of its own already - OneVox, The Virtuals... can other people name the others? I have only been active on the site for about a year so those are the only ones I know of personally. I think it would be great if there were more. |
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Apr 27, 2010 | 8:11 pm |
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| carlajpatterson wrote: | | BTW, iComp has produced a few 'supergroups' of its own already - OneVox, The Virtuals... can other people name the others? |
One of my favorite iComps groups is TheLonglines.
I am a hunt&peck keys player. Thank goodness for MiDi. I also play guitar(s). |
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Apr 27, 2010 | 8:33 pm |
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| carlajpatterson wrote: | | BTW, iComp has produced a few 'supergroups' of its own already - OneVox, The Virtuals... can other people name the others? |
Along with Becwil's recommendation, I would rank Fractal Garden at the top of my iComp collab group list.
As to the rest, I don't really play any instruments now. The extent of my musical training was middle and high school band (trombone). I've pretty much forgotten how to read music now, and I've tried to learn many instruments and failed at them from a combination of procrastination, frustration, and just not being wired well for it, I think. (I can't get my hands to do two different things at once well at all -- I'm the guy who can't pat his head and rub his stomach at the same time -- so drums are right out, piano is a no go, and that along with short fingers makes guitar difficult.) So, except for the occasional trial of some instrument or other (harmonica in my latest), I'm loop bound. Of course, "bound" is a relative term considering you can edit loops into all sorts of things, and I don't see much different between using a loop or playing the same four chords over and over.
I'll usually mention in the description of my song what I created with keyboard or edited and twisted loops into or if I played something more completely myself. I don't pretend to be anything but a song doodler. |
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Apr 27, 2010 | 9:50 pm |
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