you're absolutely right and i'm genuinely sorry for losing my cool and being a jerk to you in my earlier response.kayagum wrote:Wow, I must have caught you during a serious case of the crabbies, or maybe your kid just vomited all over you.
what i recorded really wasn't terribly complicated for me, it was essentially fairly straight-forward chords (most exotic things in there were an add9 and a major 7th) with a few arpeggiated bits done in 4/4 at a moderate tempo.kayagum wrote:Let me try to phrase it another way. BECAUSE you have no time or energy, use that as a creative limitation. In no way did I imply that you have no ability. I'm saying that because you have a fairly small window of opportunity to record, you want your stuff to work. And the best way to do that is to write fairly simple things. I'm a classically trained pianist, but that doesn't mean I'm going to write and record something that would make Chopin spin in his grave. Just because someone can play a whacked 13/8 meter doesn't mean he/she needs to write that. And I'm telling you, simplicity almost always serves the song better. It's true in writing, it's true in theater, it's true in music. And if you only have enough time or energy for a take or two, you want the take to be something where (a) you're not worried whether you'll play it right or not, and (b) you're more thinking about the expression of the take, not the mechanics.
i mean i've played more complex parts under far worse conditions of mental acuity without this happening.
i guess that's what got me so wound up that i started a thread over it.
the sleep thing is mostly insomnia related, which i don't blame my kids for.kayagum wrote:On a completely different topic. If you've been sleeping like crap for 15 years (which means you can't just blame your rugrat), you need to get your ass to a doctor and get that figured out. Or get some daycare and housekeeping. Or set up a true office for your day job. If you keep this up, your life is going to fall apart and it won't pretty. You'd be surprised how many divorce case arise from losing control over the logistics (time, money, housekeeping/roommate issues, etc.). On a far simpler and optimistic note, once you experience full sleep, you'll wonder how you ever functioned without it. I'm a reformed sleeper myself.
things in that area have improved ALOT since i was diagnosed with sleep apnoea in 2001 and started using a CPAP machine.
as for time management, when you have young children (infant and toddler) most of your time belongs to them until they gain more autonomy/ability to take care of themselves.
i still get time for music, it's just extremely hard to come by and i can seldom get more than 2 or 3 hours uninterrupted each week if i am lucky.
this has the net effect of making self-recording very difficult and time-consuming, but i keep at it anyway.