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And what I liked about it is that I could evaluate where I stand as of now because I listened to all of the videos. I havent practice alot guitar playing lately because I spent so much time on getting used to my new recording gear and actually recording that I need to take more time to practice playing with my guitar even if I hate it lolll Real good tutorial .

That seems quite interesting I.ll certainly get into it

Hi HP, Is it Freud that said you need a balance between work and pleasure. You were working alot indeed. You had to make choices to get back to a reasonable balanced state. And yes it's a matter of long term vision. Postponing your DVD projects isnt a bad thing . Sales of DVD are constantly decreasing anyways and with what is happening on the web, music is increasingly sold thru different channels than traditional music stores . Websites like Live365 are selling packages of music in the same way you buy a package of TV channels thru cable or satellite TV. Although if one of your song is played you get royalties it mostly help promote the artists that will perform live I think. I think you're going in the right direction in wanting to play live. I dont come here so often now. Been working alot on my music mainly wrting songs. Am working on 3 at this moment. The last one being a medieval type of song. I needed to use a different kind of picking style using alot of double stop which I use on a jazzy chord progression that I started working on also. I'm havin fun exploring different style of music. take care denis

When I saw this video, actually a longer version of it I think, the first time there wasnt any narration to it. The narration adds alot to the overall feel of the video and the sound track strengthens the whole presentation in a remarkable way. I didnt know about Taxi.com. I'm with Broadjam.com which does similar things but so far had little success with it. I might drop it. Great work HP

I really like the violet set of songs. I may try eventually to test doing an instrumental piece in the electronica genre.

I bet it takes time.All the multimedia software of this kind can do great things but it takes alot of experimenting with It's unbelievable the number of tools we indie artist have to learn to be self sufficent

Forgot to mention . I think these guys have quite similar style . I think they're using open tuning like open E. I tested a while ago using open E tuning and it had that very open sound like these guys have denis

HP, Very very nice entry page. Are you using Macromedia Director ? for the multimedia part ? and then you use Nuendo to add the music theme ? I have Sonar producer edition as DAW and it has softsynths but I havent found anything that sounds similar to the type of synth sound you seem to be using.

HP Here's a link to youtube A guy playing touch technique Might be of some interest to you denis

It's funny that most restaurants have french names Did you get to stay overnight in one of their rooms ? denis

The full screen mode is very nice on my 21in screen

This lesson is certainly a good example of the use of variant chords to add color to your chord progressions

I'll take a look at taxi.com Maybe you had some sort of tendonitis I know this can hurt alot. I had it to the right shoulder and had to have cortisone shots to kill the pain. Your story is totally admirable. It shows that whatever talent you have , hard work is the key to success. Have a nice day

It's a great experience for you then. Even if it was a first for you you had the gutts to give it a try. You should never doubt your abilities especially with the toolbox that you have. Out of curiosity what accident did you have that you had to stop playing piano for many years. Did you learn guitar after you had this accident and if so how could you play guitar if you couldnt play piano . Both instruments need to use your hands to play If the question is too personal you dont need to answer

It's OK but pretty boring. I guess being a corporate presentation he didn't want it to be too upbeat. As a creator it's sure you dont have the same perspective as the producer who's more of just a conservative business man. This contract may bring you another one where you'll be able to makle something more exciting. The overall quality is outstanding so you achieved your mandate well. Have a nice day, denis

That's quite a different concept for a corporate presentation which usually uses narration. Was that your idea ? You worked 171 hours on the project. Being a different concept did you have an unlimited amount of hours allocated to the project and you ended up with working those 171 hours ? You had to maintain some unity for the project as a whole. Did you composed most music clips within about the same tempo. I guess you provided them with your music clips and then their were added to the video. Did you do the mastering of the music with your own DAW or you provided them with the mix which was then mastered ? Anyways , very well done. You must have had headaches at times.

HP I certainly can recognize your style of playing touch technique in your piano playing style Music does'nt have to be sexy. If it makes you feel good and if it touches someone's soul, that's great. It's a good thing that there are different genres of music. Imagine going to a caffe to meet with a nice woman that you'd want to date and there would be heavy metal music playing loud in ther caffe !!!! You'd have a hard time talking about anything I just finished remaking one of my songs with my new DAW. I did this to practice working with softsynths and so I ended up making somewhat of a disco version of my song I love you which is in the original version a love song that feels more like a broadway type of song. It's at the same tempo (100bpm) but it's surprizing to hear such a difference in style although obviously the melody has'nt changed. There's something I learned from this exercice. It is that I should try different beats when writing a song. The end result can be surprizing. When composing do you actually try different different beats to see how your song would sound and feel ? dernis

Ok my song is going to be in all major download store in a few weeks. You're probably right about the difficulty for a noname artist like myself to get people to click on the song. If something good happens with my song it will most probably be in not less than 6 months. thanks for your opinion denis

HP, This is all great !!!! And it's no luck. You've work very hard to get there. What can be better in life than earning a living with your passion. Nothing !!! If you can buy 2 Ferraris I won't be jealous lol Anyways a Ferrari is useless in snow storms like we get in Canada lol You know, I've copyrighted 2 songs , one being Music is my life and I found a website Songcast that distributes your songs to all the major WEB music stores I guess like I tunes. Napster etc.... My song will be posted on these sites in a few weeks. I read that sales of songs by unit instead of CD is increasing by more than 40% on the WEB. Do you think it's a good idea. The other option is to find a publisher to sell my song. So I took a chance with Songcast. Cant hurt Again great news, great achievement for you !!! denis

HP Yes the picture as well as the music denis

Hp Those music-pictures are amazing. The one I preffered is Violet but they're all great denis

HP, For the type of work you're doing you probably need that sort of high end product Nuendo costs about 1700$ US which is alot of money but for you as a professionnal artist it's a good investment. If you dont use a MIDI controller does that mean that you use Virtual instruments plug ins of the software. As I dont know much about this I'm just not sure what to do to build a complete home recording sudio but i'll figure it out with a scientific approach called Trial and error lol

Great job HP !!!! Very happy for you. I dont know if you know about the website Broadjam.com You can actually post your songs there for such opportunities . It costs money to register your song for an opportunity Depending on your membership it cost 5 to 10 $. I actually have registered one of my song for a soap opera that is looking for a love song, ballad. My song called I love you, I have bought a new recording software Sonar 8 studio. I will get it next week and I plan to re record all my songs. I bought also reference headphones so now I can hear really how goog my song recordings sound. Wow what a shock lol.They really need to be re recorded. Tell me HP what is your setup for recording I Plan on buying a midi controller Never used such tools Is there any advice you can give me Greta job again HP denis

Hans, The picture I'm getting in my mind listening to your song Powergeneration is the fight for survival of animals living in the Artic where glacers are rapidely melting due to climate changes. Animals like the polar bears which are in great danger of extinction. So I'd call this song FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL Someone else may picture something else but this is my input if it can be of any help to you in naming your song denis

This Fractal audio axe seems great , it surely sounds great in your lesson of the month of november lesson Congratulations for your assignement to compose music for a movie. That's a real challenging assignement ! denis