I think I'm allowed to link to it.

Not that I watched the Oscars, but I saw something on the news. I was very happy to see that George Clooney continues to take his fashion cues from me. He looked pretty dapper with his newly shaggy hair. Brad Pitt looks good as a very rich hippy too.

And it's all-you-can-eat? Get out!

All-you-can-eat sushi made from fresh, high-quality fish by excellent sushi chefs? Pinch me. This can't be real.

But it is. If you're in Flushing, Whitestone, or Bayside, Queens, you gotta check this out!

(This is a rough draft. The post will evolve. I'll add some illustrations and maybe even a video, but for right now it's just the basics.)

JARGON ALERT: If you don't understand the jargon used in this blog entry, refer to this glossary of sound engineering terms.
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I'm recording in my bedroom now. Less resonant but clearer.

I forgot to play a whole big part of the song -- the part where the guitar goes ba ba ba bahm bahm BAHM... oh well.

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Happy Friday before Valentine's Day. Party on and on, dudez.

How to use Seq24 to build a 32-bar song.

Seq24's song editor makes midi sequencing a snap. Sequence your loops into a song. This video shows you how to make a 32-bar song using an example song tentatively called "Credit."

Break 32 bars into parts. Each part is some multiple of 4 bars long. The song "Credit" being created in the tutorial breaks down like this:

8-bar Intro
12-bar verse
8-bar chorus
4-bar bridge

This is about songwriting as much as about slathering on effects. With midi instruments, I like to add the effects before structuring the song for reasons that I explain in the video. Seq24 makes it easy to isolate the sounds for adjustment in Hydrogen and ZynAddSubFX

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When you're too busy to think about your hair...

I don't even drink now, and I still love this place. It's my favorite bar in New York.