My voice, my guitar, and a truckload of hopes and dreams
I think I played till my fingers bled today. But it felt so good. I’m not happy with the results yet, but I’m ecstatic at Ex #1plorations I’ve made with myself, my voice especially. My poor guitar is getting a nice exercise 
I recorded an original temp file just to let some of my friends listen to it and give their honest brutal opinions, and they seem pretty confident. But I need to work on my changes, so that’s my goal tomorrow. My guitar was pretty redundant. But I’m not the worlds best guitar player by far, not that I can’t learn. I want to sing and play, that’s all I’ve wanted to do. I feel like I’ve got some real potential here, and hell I like it. I even incorporated my djembe into the song which was pretty wild.
This new program I got today that Melissa recommended to me and it lets me mix fairly easily. But you have to consider that all I’m using is a stock mic, a cracked program, and a crappy computer to do this. I have no money to offer, all I have is my voice and my guitar and a truckload of hopes and dreams.
Talking to Myk today though, I’m just not sure I can do it. I’m going to try, but I don’t think I have something worth listening to yet. I’m hoping that will change with time, I’m just anxious to send something off -now-, hopefully these people will be patient with me. I really only want to play for myself, I just want to play music, but it’s like these days you have to be able to play something that sells. Talk about pressure.
Maybe tomorrow I’ll have something I’m willing to put up. For now, if you’re really interested in hearing my first attempt, I’ll send you the URL, just leave a message in the comments here.
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4 Responses to “My voice, my guitar, and a truckload of hopes and dreams”
July 22nd, 2003 at 5:19 am
Thought of the day, always better to play for yourself than to play with yourself..
Good luck in your indevors! Man, am I a fortune cookie or what?
July 22nd, 2003 at 9:34 am
You scare me Mitch, you really do
July 22nd, 2003 at 12:09 pm
Glad the program’s helping. The more Morgan works with it, the more he finds ways to improve. He did some pretty impressive things with a vocal track of our housemate, Li.
Don’t let yourself get bogged down with thoughts of “I don’t know if I can do this” or “I don’t have enought material yet.” You have a great voice and a lot of talent, and great potential to be really good with more practice and some learning.
Even if this offer doesn’t pan out, it looks like it was a great motivator for you– it has jump-started your practice and recording, right?
With my writing, I sometimes go through periods of major self-doubt, and the idea of submitting things and getting yet another rejection letter is incredibly daunting. But when something “pokes” me into action, and I start really writing and working at it, I try to look at it as, I am writing, I am producing good work, I will have more material to draw from. Anyway, what I’m trying to say is, at least you are working at it and recording things and going somewhere, rather than just sitting on your talent, you know? So anyway, don’t sit on that beautiful voice. I’m so glad that you are actively working on your music.
Sheesh. I just wrote a book in your comments. heh.
Good, excellent, incredible luck to you.
July 28th, 2003 at 5:41 pm
good luck