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I kinda knew that but was wondering where this leads if you want something more formal?

Just curious whether anyone has ever started a music publishing company to protect their own compositions. Several of us are posting our own stuff here without protection (I don't care now but what if....) and it occured to me that setting up ones own company could be a way of protecting our interests. Has anyone ever gone down this route or know of any resource that tells you how to do it?

'Donna Lee' works better if you understand the harmony that underpins it (it is based on the chords to '(Back Home Again In) Indiana'). Without that knowledge, it is a stream of gibberish. If you play it along with the chords, it is perfectly melodic. And, for the record, it is a Miles Davis tunes, NOT a Charlie Parker tune. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Lee

Sounds to me that you are using too much pressure to fret the notes. You had the strength to do this when you were three, you just need to use your hand more efficiently and relax it. It should not be that hard to fret a note anywhere on the neck.

Open Your Eyes (You Can Fly) - Flora Purim (Alphonso Johnson)

[quote name='The Dark Lord' timestamp='1353934502' post='1879842'] The first line in his wikipedia page reads: [indent=1]"Marcus Miller (born William Henry Marcus Miller Jr., June 14, 1959) is an American jazz composer, producer and instrumentalist.[/indent] [/quote] That'll be irrefutable then Seriously, condolences to the driver's family and friends and I hope the rest of the injured recover well and soon.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1353936644' post='1879894'] Isn't that slightly tasteless bearing in mind he could have been killed?! [/quote] More so because somebody else was....

BBC headline reads: 'Jazz bassist Marcus Miller's tour bus in fatal crash' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20486184 Trouble is, MM never plays Jazz. He plays [i]a[/i] Jazz, but I have not heard any Jazz being played by him for decades I think the new DG at the BBC should resign over this (and take his £300K bonus with him....)

Learn to read music. It not only helps you to get through a reading gig but also helps you to learn songs (I remember riffs/lines etc as visual images of staves, not as sounds)

Doesn't want to play on mine. May be a AOL thing!

Can't listen without buying, my friend. Is there a website or soundcloud page?

I would let it go, mate. I have tried lugging guitars around in not disimilar circumstances (aged 17 + ) and it really started to pish me off after about three [i]days[/i] never mind years.

No worries, charic. It's not that important. My 'sulk' joke was a comment on the quality of the other entries, not any real concerns about the imperfections of my own!

Am off to do a gig right after work and won't be home until after midnight so it literally is too late (I don't think it's going to make enough difference to warrant the effort anyway, Nigel )

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1353670502' post='1877157'] Oh Rob No entry this month mate? [/quote] Mine was way back on page six of this thread, mate. It's just that it sounds a bit sad to me now Serioulsy, I am a bit annoyed that two of the (many) VSTs I used don't seem to want to transfer from midi to audio. I play it back in Cubase and it is there but when I create an audio file, it is not (there is a drone under the opening speech that carries on through the whole first section and a bass part that comes in under the vibes sound in the middle - their absence is not a death blow but it does impede the forward momentum of the piece). Too late now.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1353670230' post='1877148'] Moondance [/quote] Pervert.

I didn't want a stupid custom bass anyway....

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Hoist by my own petard!

Great stuff, Mike. The trumpet player's tone is particularly lovely. Was the sound recorded off a desk?

Me. [size=1]only joking....[/size]

There is nothing scientific about it. When I am playing this (or any of the other tune on my 'banned' list), my self talk is telling me that this is not what I took up the bass for, that its is predictable, repetitive, tedious and cringeworthy and that I hate it and everything it stands for. If my self talk was doing that about a book I was reading, I would stop reading it. If it was telling me that about a film I was watching, some food I was eating or a conversation I was having, I would turn it off, put my knife and fork down and engineer my removal from that situation. Mustang Sally is no different. The only reason I would continue doing it is for money and that is what I have a day job for. It is the musical equivalent of a comedian saying 'when is a door not a door? When it is ajar'. PS I am a frightful snob.

These problems are common in those early efforts to set up a home recording facility. What I found was that my soundcard was not built to deal with the kind of use I had in mind when I bought the computer so, on the advice of a friend (a great ppianist called Carl Hudson, now playing keys with Professor Green), I got a usb audio interface (in my case, Audio Capture UA 20) and that seemed to sort the problem out. My knowledge of this stuff is too rudimentary for me to give a definitive answer but your audio interface/ASIO may need configuring (it is usually under a drop down bar and is called 'devices' or something and needs to be set to the appropriate setting. I am sorry I am being vague but this is all based on my own limited experience of the issue. I don't know Audacity either PS this knobbing about for hours is par for the course in the early days anyway as you are making sense of a load of stuff that has ints own perverse logic. You'll get there in the end but you will get days when the PC looks sure to be going out the window....

I find that I use all sorts of different methods for composing; chords first, drums first, bassline first, melody first.... I often write contrefacts (new heads for exisitng chord sequences - see 'At The End Of The Avenue' on my soundcloud page). The best pieces come out whole and get built aroudn a firm idea but, sometimes, I get into little exercises that bear fruit (see Composing For Dummies). On this month's composition, I had it all thought out before I switched the computer on and, after that, it was a case of colouring in the original sketch. In general terms, I think that, where the creative process is concerned, anything goes and the end justifies the means.