Patrick Burns

I posted a Steel Drum Rhumba WIP you-know-where

knuckles -> wood repeat

I has excitement! I forgot what an awesome job Tepid did with Snakey Chantey. Kudos to Taucer and Bahamut for keeping everything well organized and progressing steadily. I'm glad the endgame isn't going to be too drawn out.

It's unfortunate that we're all so used to hearing such immaculate voice tracks in day to day life that the average person is extremely reluctant to sing to people - and that we also have a knee jerk reaction to anything not up the "standard." Unfortunate as that may be, it is still true that most of us have that reaction. It is why I decided not to put vocals on my Jib Jig arrangement. (I had the lyrics planned and was even practicing it.) Rather, I tried out my vocal chops on an original piece - a song I anticipated having a smaller circulation Vocals are great, though. We need more of them.

http://burns212.googlepages.com/CongregationoftheFallen.mp3

This song was an xmas gift to my girlfriend. It's an acoustic ballad (I sing for the first time [without pitch correction]) conceived over a period of two months, but produced in 3 days. It's done, but I just thought I'd get some reactions.

studio - freshman edition When I'm in the mood, I push stuff around, pull out my 49-key keyboard, set it on my lap, and fire up logic.

I don't know your knowledge level and don't want to come across as condescending, but have you selected an instrument in the channel strip? Logic has a little level meter on the arrange window channels that reacts to audio in audio tracks, but on instrument channels it only reacts to midi data. So, on an instrument channel, you could have the level meter jumping up and down without having any sound being produced if you didn't have an instrument selected on it's input.

excellent choice!

Still enjoying this stuff. Great job! btw, is Closed-Eyed Astronomy inspired at all by Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears?

Only to the extent that I figure out the tune on the piano

Nice! 10char

Oh man, me too. It's killing me. Except, my dad's an orthopedic - so I get drugs in the mail.

Since getting to college I've been working out a lot. The other day I was able to run 6 miles in 55 min. I've also been swimming and weight lifting regularly. My sleep schedule is still fucked, though.

what the hell

I'm visualizing Mike using his yo-yo in time with the song as he drifts through some ruined island landscape Thanks for the StarTropics representation

Here's a cover of Tommy Emmanuel's arrangement of Blue Moon. I have actually been doing music, even if the remixing side has dropped off a tad. here's a higher quality, stereo recording version: http://www.filedropper.com/bluemoon-youtubemoon

Thanks, that gives me some routes to head in. btw, as far as I can tell from a layman's perspective, my non-falsetto range is middle c and down two octaves.

I have had no vocal coaching, but for the past year or so I've started paying attention to how different parts of my throat/head feel and how they affect the tone. For the past few days I've actually started practicing a certain song regularly, and my voice overall has begun changing. The song I've been practicing is at the upper limit of my range (so I have been straining a little bit), and I've been using a very breathy tone. Now it seems my talking voice seems to subtly remain in the breathy tone. I don't know quite how to describe it exactly. At first, it was only after I practiced, but now it sticks around for hours and keeps getting more permanent. Here's what I've started practicing I have been coming off of a sinus infection, but my throat has been feeling pretty clear, and the effect has been increasing. Any thoughts? Am I doing some kind of harm?

In Sydney, wasn't one of the US relay teams saying they were going to "play the Australians like guitars," and then Thorpe and his team left them in a trail of bubbles?

I never watch gymnastics, but watching them in the olympics has been twisting my stomach into knots. It has made me remember for the first time in a while why I quit so long ago: I was scared out of my mind. I had been doing it since I was 5, but it was only a month or two after our coach started teaching us front giants when I split. What a wuss...

I think that race permanently disabled my adrenal glands.

Artemev just got past the place in his routine where he fell in the trials, then he exploded. Pretty cool I think that Chinese gymnast is going to have his rear branded for sitting on the p-bars, though. I was getting used to them being stone cold, and then he just kinda sat down.

I can get that One hot summer’s day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. “Just the things to quench my thirst,” quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: “I am sure they are sour.” -Aesop edit: lol, they called a travel on Kobe Bryant the first time he touched the ball. classic. Just a little "hey we do things differently here"