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"Music hath charms to soother the savage beast."
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Welcome to My music Page!
Hi and welcome to my music website 'Music and Rhythm'. Music has been one of my passions for most of my life. I enjoy many different types of music and for the most part I've been a passive listener. Lately I've developed this need to experiment and create music. I don't have any musical training nor do I really know how to play an instrument. I play mostly by ear and tinker on a keyboard. Using some now well established technology I hope to create some music that is both meaningful and melodious. So won't you join me as I take a trip into a musical world?
Music Projects
So how am I planning on pulling off my little music goal. Well, the obvious starting point is to get some instruments. Now since my home den will do double duty as my home studio there are a few factors to take into account.
1. I won't be able to have any loud instruments as I will be doing most of my playing after my daughter goes to sleep.
2. I have a limited space and so all the instruments and equipment must fit into a small space.
So naturally these two conditions necessitate that I use electronic instruments for my recordings since I will be able to monitor every stage of playing and recording through headphones with the occasional audition through studio monitors for mix-downs and recording level checks.
Equipment
My equipment so far consists of
- Yamaha S-30 Synthesizer
- Alesis D4 drum module - (see side note).
- Yamaha QX5 MIDI sequencer
- Celeron 1. Ghz Linux workstation running Audacity, Lame and a host of other Linux-based recording software. It isn't much, but for a begining amateur musician as myself I believe this will do me well for starters.
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e-drums
Naturally just about every piece of music from classical, Rock, bluegrass, passing through Jazz and country has drums or some kind of back beat. So how am I going to solve the drumming problem? I had thought of getting myself a drum machine, but as I have played around with some in the past, mostly computer-based sequencing drum machines I've always felt they were too mechanical and dry. I looked around for quite some time for an alternative, but not being a drummer I stayed pretty clear of traditional drums seeing them as bulky, expensive and requiring maintenance. Then I discovered electronic drum kits. These have been around for 15 years and more in various ________ and prices, most of which I found prohibitively high. Then enter the home-brew electronic drum. Just as I was about to give up I read about some people on the Internet building their own drum triggers and using them to fire off sounds from a now famous electronic drum module, the Alesis D4. A quick search on e-bay yielded the going price for such a unit, about $160 US, which was in my price range. Several months of trying to land one of these babies I finally succeeded and started building my e-drums from dollar store pie plates and musical greeting cards. Have I wetted your appetite? Great, follow me as I explain how I'm currently building and testing my own home-brew set of electronic drums.
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