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1. Sit on the sofa watching telly with acoustic guitar in hand, picking and strumming until I find some progressions I like. Normally takes a few minutes.
2. Turn the telly off. I haven't been listening anyway.
3. Start building melody around my chord sequence. At least to the point of identifying anchor notes and any special (non-standard) melody/chord combinations
4. Move to computer and write the melody/chord score using guitar pro software to create midi rendition (I always assign piano sound to the melody). Decide if what I have lends itself to verse or chorus (or neither)
5. Having decided what I have, that becomes the context for creation of the missing parts. At least to the point of knowing if I am going to take it up or down from where I am. I normally compose the other parts with combination of acoustic guitar, vocal gobbledygook and direct score writing.
6. Once I feel I have the necessary parts, I move on to deciding song structure and arrangement. All within guitar pro. In order words composing guitar parts, bass guitar part, placement of bass drum and snare etc.
7. Probably I have recently been thinking about some subject matter. I decide if the type of song that is emerging is an appropriate backdrop to explore that subject within the lyric. I generally don't write lyrics until I have decided what I want to say because it is too easy to become attached to 'clever' rhymes and double meanings that do not necessarily serve the song. Once I know what I want to say, writing an initial draft lyric becomes focused and easy. The song melody/meter might evolve during the lyric writing phase.
8. I allow the lyric to mature over a few days, revisiting for short sessions of editing.
9. I begin the record process by generating temporary bass/organ/guitar tracks from guitar pro (these are midi sound tracks) .. initially this gives me an effective framework for building the drum part (programmed or loops). Then I move on to record the vocal and the various instruments (replacing the midi tracks). Then comes mixing/mastering.
10. Done ... ready for the next song!
You can now change your artist landing page and background.
On your page, click the sprite (sprocket) to the far right of the band name to go into your Profile. Click on the Customize Tab and then you can choose which tab will load first, timeline, audio, YouTube etc. You can also upload an image to appear as your background.
Hope you like!
The ability to sort songs has been added. You will see the circular arrows on the song page. Just click it and drag and drop songs in the order you like.
Congrats to G I and Joe for having the Mixposure.com Song of the Week! Check out the song here !
Bio
All kinds of influences breed all kinds of creativity. G.I. (Stephan Hoff) and Jo (Joellen Cabot) have grown up embracing all kinds of different music. Joellen loves the vocals of the R & B divas, past and present, and it shows in her soulful, emotional vocal expressions. Her songwriting draws the listener in to relate-able experiences about life and all that a woman senses and feels. Stephan grew up singing and playing in the church. A musical family environment lent itself to his abilities to find a place to fit in, vocally and instrumentally. A stint in the 82nd Airborne Division provided his nickname. His influences range from rock, pop, jazz, and blues, embracing almost all genres of music and using a little part of all them as the driving force behind his songwriting and producing.
I was fooling around in the studio the other day and before I knew it I had made a video for my newest song "Don't Look Back". It's kinda silly (the video, not the song...well...you be the judge of the song) but I had a ridiculous amount of fun making it.
If you'd like to take a look it's here:
http://www.mixposure.com/rs-cain/youtube/1953/dont-look-back
I hope you enjoy it!
Thanks!
I've just uploaded my Worlds project videos, 5 songs 5 videos, one concept, featuring TLT50 on World of Green. Cbheck them out in my YouTube section on my profile, hope you enjoy this 20 minutes music video concept.
Hi!
Just a quick update to let you know about the revamp of my website, http://elmojk.com
The goal was to make the site more user friendly. This has been done by putting all the videos to my original songs in one place, guitar songs
You can find the backing track videos under guitar jamz
For free mp3s, go to guitar mp3
And finally, if you want to listen to my music in radio format, go to guitar radio
Hope y'all enjoy!
okey dokey i think ive got me head around the new layout ..as i didnt give any initial ideas as to how it should be or look ,,im not going to pass judgement ..bit pointless really ,gets you nowhere and can give off bad vibes which ,as im only living one lifetime , i have no time for :D ... anyways ive been absent from here since and before the big move for one reason ...no energy to create or indulge in music making fullstop ...it happens to me at times and this is one of them ,,also me studio went tits up and needs a total rebuild ,,,thought i could get all me keyboards singing from the same songsheet ,,but it wasnt to be ,,so streamlining is in order ,,,im slowly getting some tuneage done but its painfully slow and arduous and that combo isnt me at all but if it means me getting something down then it has to be ...anyways just thought id let you all know and that ive not jumped ship which seems to happen when a music site has a facelift ...been there got the t-shirt ...oh i didnt jump ship ,,cant swim anyways ,,i mean ive seen it happen on many site ....anyways hope your all well and exercising properly and eating the right fruit and veg and taking the right vitamins and reading the proper books ,,not the naughty ones that concern 1001 things to do with a radish ,,1002 if you eat the f***er ....ok now im waffling and its dangerous when you dont wear water wings and goggles and mine are at the menders till week thursday ...so bye for now and remember never bungee jump with an erection ...you might lose it and the rope falls off ....:D
So we are now about a week in and I just wanted to touch base with everyone. I have started to add in some of the old site feeatures. You will notice a Radio Link in the menu with Podcast and Stream Links. I also added in Page Views and Lyrics to the artist pages. I will try and get to Song Review Counts added soon.
I have been asked, Why did you Change The Site? The simple reason is that the code on the old site was several years old. When we wanted to add new features, it required the developrs to make changes in multiple areas and was time consuming. The new site pretty much sets us up for the next several years. The old site was not built in a day and for those f you that were around in the beginning, you saw changes all of the time. This will be no different.
One of the new features you will see is Foxy Cart. One of the issues we were faced with on the old site is not everyone likes paypal. So people wanted to buy artists music but did not, or should I say would not, use paypal. Foxy Cart was an easy way to integrate with the site and allow users, from pretty much any country, the ability to purchase your songs, cd's, t-shirts and any other merchandise you would like to sell on your page. if you click on the link on your page, you obviously get a lot of feature rich reporting.
What I would like to ask is what features from the old site would you like to see on the new version? One of my top priorities is getting a Facebook App up and running. I would also like to see some new audio players that are a little cooler. So what do you guys want to see?
Todd