I have been singing all week and thinking about getting back into recording stuff soon but this puts my guitar skills (or lack there of lol) to shame! Its amazing!
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Thank you very much! It was the first time i did a rather “advanced” picking.
Anyway, do get back into recording, i’d like to listen to your output!
Also, composing and recording is a good way to stay sober, at least for me 
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Hey @Zappo - You have a beautiful fluidity in your finger picking. Your hammer-ons and chord movements sound absolutely flawless and your work on the lower strings shows how grounded a musician you are 
its a stunning piece of music, I hope you are proud - I wish I could write music this good!
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Wow that’s a huge compliment, thank you very much! Many people don’t habe the patience to sit through 6:30 minutes and a kinda sloggish first half, so your words are much appreciated
I’ve got the same interface (first gen though) and I’m very happy with it,have fun recording!
Is it easy enough to use? I’ve not had a chance to play with it yet. I need a dedicated laptop. But hopefully that’ll be soon.
It’s very easy. Just plug it in, install the driver and play with the buffer size of the interface until it runs stable. Other than that, there is not much to do. Maybe use the “Direct Monitoring” function if the lag is too big when you are recording.
There aren’t many buttons anyway so you should be fine
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Can you please just delete my account?
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Would love to hear your music!
I’ve been playing guitar since I was about 7 so I love anythig guitar related Keep recording, id love to keep listening!
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I love this! Reminds me a a band called Radical Face.
Do you record at your home or studio?
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Ah cool I know them, but not very well.thanks!
I record at home, my equipment is pretty rudimentary and unfortunately I have to mix on headphones.
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You could have fooled me!!! That is fantastic work!!
I am working with a Scarlett 18i20, Studio One 4 Pro and some low end mics, like the Rode NT1, Sterling ST170 ribbon, few SM57, a couple Rode M5’s and some others. I can’t seem to get the crispness you are producing, I’m super awe struck! I switched from mixing on headphones to a pair of home stereo speakers, not the best by any means but trying to save my hearing (suffering hearing loss).
Thanks!
Wow that’s a lot of mics! I just got one, don’t even know what model 
But it’s a condenser microphone,i use it for everything,plus the vsti’s.
I have low end monitoring stereo speakers too but they sound very questionable, hence the headphones.
Sorry for your hearing loss,that sucks,especially for a musician… where can I listen to your stuff?
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There are some sound cloud files of Dan’s above on this thread Zappo.
Okay thanks!
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Today during practice we decided to do an impromptu cover. This was the first time playing this song, it just sorta materialized. 
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Last year I actually released a song about my alcoholism called “Under The Water”. It’s like the only thing I’ve been able to write about for the past years. Now, it’s in danish so you won’t get a word but I have tried to translate the first verse and chorus. Obviously there is some cultural and linguistic meaning getting lost in translation but hope you can get the sense of it anyway
You’re biting me hard like a rattlesnake //
Ripping me apart like a prisoner //
Go hard on me like it would be the last time // you would be eating my flesh to the sound of my swan song // You laugh at me when you see I get afraid // the blood only soothes the immortal hunger // drowns myself to catch my breathe // until my screams dissapears in the noice of silence // just a bit more, it’s so warm // time goes tick tick out of my hands // my brain chit-chit-chatters // so soon I’ll be locked up behind bars // You’ll be kicking me before i can kick-kickstart // Even when I want to leave you know exactly where I am // fucking me up, giving me dope and ladies // more then a few scratches when you’re biting //
Life under the water, over anything // looking through a glass which is mixed up
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I was talking with my mom about my creative passions and how it’s been difficult for me to stay on track and produce any “deliverables”, and I’m frustrated with just having a mess of stubs and creative thoughts that don’t get shared with anyone. It’s been what, 8 months of never having anything I was willing to put out here on this thread to share?
Because we have a great relationship like that, we just talked freely, and she mentioned ego while she shared her thoughts. I realized right then that ego is a HUGE part of my difficulty here! It’s more than I’m afraid to look bad. There’s a deeper temptation, and that is to use my musical assets as a conduit to just grab attention, to puff up myself up against feeling undesirable and inadequate in general. For me that’s a red flag, because my inner reason for wanting to share music is, at the core, to just celebrate creativity and creation and enrich the world with new ideas or expressions of them.
So practically, where this ego thing stifles me is that in order to attract this attention I was going for, I have to raise the standards for what I share, ABOVE my actual skill level, which is of course impossible.
I don’t know how to let go, though. I want to be able to just put out a musical idea I find interesting that I made. I don’t want to put out something to be judged good or bad (by me or by someone else), just enjoyed or not. The mental gymnastics for me are dizzying, why is acceptance so hard?
If I can make this growth, it could really open things up for me to actually get somewhere with music again, whether I share it with anyone or not, but for now I’m paralyzed. sigh…
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She has an amazing voice Dan. Oh and your picking ain’t that bad either.
Seriously, that sounds awesome for an impromptu performance.
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