I have been thinking about buying a bass guitar for a long time. The reason? Simply for home recording. Another reason is, I don’t really like the sound of MIDI bass when working with full band tracks. I would like to have real bass guitar. So when I get the extra cash this summer, I’ll probably end up buying a cheap bass guitar sometime. I don’t think I’ll ever play bass guitar live, just for home Pro Tools recording. I would record guitar and bass guitar, then I’ll put MIDI drums behind it to make it sound like an actual band. I never played the bass guitar before in my life, but I learned that if you already know how to play the guitar real good, you already know how to play bass. Both instruments are pretty much the same except the bass only have four strings obviously. Plus, I don’t keep my original songs too complicated and they’re not that challenging to play anyways. I like to keep my originals simple.

I really want to make full band rock tracks which is something I’ve always wanted to do. I’m learning and figuring it all out. I don’t have an actual band yet but I’ll just do all this myself for now.

Getting your original songs you hear in your head and onto to recording shouldn’t be that hard ’cause in “Music Creator 5” software you can manually enter notes in certain keys, tempos and all that. So you can match the melody you hear in your head and get them off your chest that way.

I got tons of rock song ideas I need to get out of me. They are upbeat and tight rock n’ roll. Not slow ballad stuff. I would say they would fit in the punk and glam rock genres. The stuff that you hear in the 70’s. The type of music that I mostly listen to.

Kev

Yesterday at Best Buy, I picked up “Music Creator 5” by Cakewalk. A music program for MIDI and audio recording. I already have ProTools for Audio recording, but I picked up “Music Creator 5” for doing MIDI with it only. I installed the program last night, messed with it for a little bit. Couldn’t get MIDI playback to work and figured it out today. I got the MIDI playback to work on the new program. Using this software, you don’t even need a MIDI keyboard, MIDI mixer/interface and all that fancy stuff. You just use your regular wavelength built in MIDI synth. The MIDI on this program works and sounds fine. The instruments sounds  real enough. You can make your own drum patterns behind your songs if you want to. Soon I’ll be making full band tracks in no time once I learn how to use the software good. Don’t expect full band tracks from me right away as I still have to learn to work with MIDI first. I will use ProTools for recording real  guitar and vocals and will use “MC5” for recording MIDI band backup. Yep, I want to be a one man band. That is my goal.

MC5 seems like an interesting program. So far, I’m liking it. I plan to make some of my older songs full band versions too. It’s time I make some rock n’ roll songs here. Working with MIDI will be helpful for my guitar playing, especially jamming with lead solos which is what I plan to do also. I will make instrumentals first through MC5 just so I can get the hang with it and learn the program.

It’s time I make some full band rock songs and hopefully I start doing that once I learn how to use this program good. It will be a long while though ’til I get good at the software.

Kev