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Just bought a couple of books for my Ipad that would help with my DAW music recording…

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So today, I just bought a couple of books that could help me a lot with DAW recording. I’ll admit that I’m not the best at DAW recording but I could learn to do it better. A lot of musicians would just record bits and bits of riffs and things like that and edit it them together. I tried to do it like that but it’s hard to do. That’s why I’ve always liked to record the song live… play it all the way through while it’s recording. I love recording songs “live” in DAW but I should record songs the other way… record bits and bits of piece and put them together. I gotta learn how to use DAW like a pro. I’ve always saw DAW as a tool to get songs out of me. I didn’t care about sound quality or editing or anything like that but I should. So I just got a couple of books that would help me

I just got these to read on my Ipad:

Making Music With GarageBand and Mixcraft:

Music Theory For Computer Musicians:

I already know quite a bit of music theory and have most of it memorized but there’s still a lot of stuff I gotta learn. The “Music Theory For Computer Musicians” would help me with MIDI instruments when multi-tracking other instruments, ya know?

I really need to learn how to use DAW like a pro ’cause once again, I admittedly suck at these things. I’m also gonna learn mixing and mastering all by myself too. Well, there is a guy that I know who actually went to college for music “producing” so maybe I’ll have him help me out some.

I just want to record the best sounding music possible. So I’m gonna do some researching and studying. Figure out how to do all this myself. I will always be a “self-taught” kind of guy ’cause I like that better.

As for learning the piano/keyboards, that’s going really well too. I want to get good at piano/keyboards before I get myself a MIDI controller. Piano is not all that hard after all. Just gotta practice and stick with it just like you stick with everything else.

Kev

 

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The MSM thinks”Liberalism” is for blacks and gays but they fail at that goal…

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A lot of people out there are having a hard time seeing that there are black conservatives and gay conservatives out there in this country. It may not seem like it but yes, there are black conservatives and gay conservatives in this country. A lot of people think Liberalism is for blacks and gays but it’s not always going to be like that. Deal with it. Nobody knows about some blacks and some gays being “conservative” but they do exist.

That’s why liberals become so shocked and get all scared when they find out that there are black conservatives out there such as Dr. Ben Carson, Herman Cain, Sheriff Clarke, Pastor Mark Burns, Stacy Dash and others.

And there are gay conservatives out there … so far the most well-known gay conservative I can think of are Milo Yiannopoulos and Peter Thiel. Maybe throw in Caitlyn Jenner in that list too, I would think.

It’s funny ya know, whenever the left finds out there are black and gay conservatives… they can’t find a way to call them “racist” or “homophobes”. That’s why the media and liberals are calling Milo an “extremist”and “white nationalist” ’cause they can’t find a way to call him a “homophobe”. So they think of other ways to call him names and make him look bad.

The MSM tries to make “liberalism” just for a certain group of people but they fail at that goal ’cause there are all kinds of other people with all kinds of political views. The media needs to realize that not everyone sees the world the same way they do and it’s one of the reasons why we’re all getting fed up with their shit.

Media tries so hard to fight for peace and love for “blacks” but when a black guy happens to be a conservative, the media is like, “Oh no, he’s a bad person”. Then they waste all their time trying to smear him ’cause of his conservative views. Isn’t that kind of racist to bash a black person ’cause of his/her conservative views?

The same thing with the media and liberals that try to destroy Milo and Peter Thiel, isn’t that kind of homophobic?

This country makes it seem like that being “conservative” is like a bad thing. I try not to view myself as a “conservative” guy but I guess I am pretty conservative and quite proud of it, really. I’ve gotten treated badly by a lot of people ’cause of my conservative views, yes. Shame on the media, I totally blame it on them.

We don’t make fun of liberals for their intolerance for no reason. I used to have left-leaning views in the past during the Bush years but my views started to change when Obama became president. That’s when I became a conservative ’cause Barack Obama helped make me become one, lol. The way liberalism is now, I don’t want to see myself as a liberal at all. I feel sorry for liberals today. They’re all being brainwashed by the MSM which is sad to see. I try my best to tell liberals not to believe the MSM but sure enough, they don’t listen to me. It’s real sad that they only listen to the MSM and not real people like us.

Anyways, back to black and gay conservatives… not a lot of people know they exist ’cause the MSM refuses to let people know. Why? Because it’ll make liberalism look bad. They want to protect liberalism and make it look good most of the time. It’s messed up, I know. It’ll mess up their views of “race relations” and “equality” goals if they did let people know they exist.

A lot of people in facebook, man… they don’t know that Milo is gay. They know that Milo was supposed to host a speaking event at Berkeley but if the MSM said he is a gay conservative, that would have freaked out liberals in social networking. That’s why they’re silent on his orientation.

Our media is so corrupt and dishonest. Can’t you see it? If you take everything they say seriously then you’re not very smart at all.

Kev

 

 

 

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Most of the MSM refuses to say Milo Yiannopoulos is gay when reporting about the Berkeley College violence at his speaking event…

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Once again, the left spent years fighting so hard defending gays but they attack Milo Yiannopoulos who happens to be a gay guy. I thought they wanted “equality for all” but unless a gay person is conservative and a Trump supporter, they’re not allowed “equality”. While the liberal MSM is reporting about violence at Berkeley College, they of course refuse to call it what it really is, “a riot” (it’s not a protest).

Most of the media refuses to say what Milo’s sexual orientation is but when they do bring up his homosexuality, they attack him like this article here:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/02/politics/milo-yiannopoulos-white-men-scholarship-trnd/

I’ve repeatedly stated before that I’ve always thought the left’s “equality for all” was such a joke. “Equality for all” should go both ways even for gays with different political beliefs.

There’s no reason to invade Milo events. The only reason he’s being attacked is ’cause he’s a Trump supporter and that’s it, really. They’re also scared of him ’cause he’s a gay conservative which they’ve never seen before.

While the riots at Trump and Milo events are horrible and they need to stop, Trump needs to do something about George Soros. George Soros is the one funding these riots and he’s in charge of them. Soros needs to be locked up. Why won’t President Trump mention Soros or why won’t Trump say Soros is behind the riots? Trump probably doesn’t know who’s behind the riots yet. Well he should know. Everybody knows Soros is behind them all.

The left better be careful when they attack Milo events. This will solve nothing for them. The only thing that will happen is that this will help make Milo become a best selling author. He has a book coming out called, “Dangerous” which is about to hit bookstores in March. I am absolutely buying this book when it comes out in March:

I see nothing wrong with Milo. Trying to wake people up and saying all the same things we’ve all been thinking.

Kev

 

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Drum programming in Acoustica Mixcraft looks pretty easy, I’ll be able to add drums to my songs with no problem!

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Ever since I upgraded to the full version of Acoustica Mixcraft 8 DAW software, I’ve been trying to mess with drum programming on it. Trying to figure out how I would add drums to my songs. It seems they make it easy for ya.

As long as you have a sense of rhythm and understanding timing — also, having an understanding of reading drum notation, you should be good.

http://www.freedrumlessons.com/drum-lessons/reading-drum-notation.php

I have a drummer’s instructional book so I can learn how to create basic rock beats with that. I could probably get drum beats of what I’m hearing in my head to recording easily. I’m still planning on getting Superior Drummer or ToonTrack EZ Drummer sometime down the road but I’ll start off with what I have now.

Even though I want to start writing and recording full band rock tracks, I will still make acoustic music, though. With my acoustic songs I can add all kinds of various instruments on those type of songs like bongos, congas, cellos, saxophones and all kinds of stuff. There are all kinds of percussion instruments on here that I can mess with.

I like Mixcraft a lot. Think I’m definitely gonna stick with this DAW. I’m new to this software so it’s gonna take a while for me to get good with it.

I’m also gonna teach myself mixing and mastering as well ’cause I want the best sounding music as possible. I remember in the past when I was recording on other DAW’s, I had trouble trying to get the MP3 to sound loud after rendering. That’s probably ’cause I’ve been rendering unmastered tracks. If I want the songs to sound loud after rendering to MP3, I need to learn how to master. That’s the whole point of mastering I believe. I’m gonna teach myself mixing and mastering by reading books about it. I’ve been googling about that stuff too.

I’m tired of recording on DAW with just my voice and acoustic guitar. Time to do some creative stuff with my music this time around.

Kev

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Top 10 Love Songs of all time… in celebration of Valentine’s Day coming…

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Since Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to name my top 10 favorite love songs of all time in no particular order. I don’t obsess with love songs too much but I do like some of them. Here are my favorite love songs of all time. These 10 songs will always be amazing. No need to explain why I love each of these songs ’cause they’re all great songs. I can listen to these all the time and would never get tired of ’em.

Enjoy.

Kev

Berlin – “Take My Breath Away”

The Righteous Brothers – “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling”

The Righteous Brothers – “Unchained Melody”

The Scorpions – “Still Loving You”

Firehouse – “When I Look Into Your Eyes”

Whitney Houston – “I Will Always Love You”

Eric Clapton – “Wonderful Tonight”

Elvis Presley – “Love Me Tender”

Ritchie Valens – “We Belong Together”

The Penguins – “Earth Angel”

 

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President Trump is doing all the things Bernie Sanders wants but Bernie and his supporters still hating on Trump… WTF???

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I’ve always known that Trump and Bernie Sanders had similar political views. Bernie wanted to get rid of TPP. Trump did that. Bernie wanted to lower drug prices in the pharma industry. Trump did that. Bernie wanted protections for the LGBTQ community in the workforce. Well, Trump did that too! While Trump and Bernie Sanders mostly got similar views the only things they disagree with each other on is Climate Change and environmentalist stuff.

It’s really weird to me how Trump is doing all these things for Bernie and his supporters but they’re still hating on Trump. I think I would blame the media and social networking groups for that ’cause they are good at manipulating people. The media and social networking groups like “Being Liberal”, “Occupy Democrats”, “The Other 98%” will do anything to make Trump look bad even if he does good things for them.

The media, liberals and Trump haters tried to paint Trump as a homophobe and I’m sure their heads were spinning when the news got out today that Trump vows to continue protecting the LGBTQ community in the workforce. I’ve always known that Trump is a friend to the gay community, he always has been. Yet everyone still sees him as a homophobe. That’s why there are plenty of gay people who love Trump. Many in the gay community voted for him… there is a “Gays For Trump” movement, look it up if you don’t believe me.

I love how Trump is doing all the things Bernie wants and Bernie’s supporters can’t stand it that it’s all hilarious to see.

When will the left and some independent voters realize that Trump is for them too? Hopefully they’ll see it soon. Trump is for everyone, not just for conservatives!

Kev

 

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President Trump needs to realize that Barack Obama still hates him… Come on, Trump! Wake Up!

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I remember seeing on Trump’s first TV interview as president with Sean Hannity, Trump says he’s gotten friendly with Obama on TV. Trump clearly said, “I like him, he likes me”.

Trump says that at about 35:02 in this interview:

What President Trump doesn’t realize that Obama hates him. Always did. Obama lies well and pretends well. I think it’s obvious that Obama was just being friendly with Trump ’cause it was “inauguration” time and Obama just had to show respect to the new president. That was all. Now that inauguration is over, Obama is back to trying to bring down Trump. Obama just put out a statement condemning Trump’s immigration vetting and policies as you all probably should know by now.

Trump also keeps saying he has a lot of respect for the Clintons, well same thing. Hillary still hates him too.

While I think President Trump is doing a great job so far, I think him being friendly with the Clintons and the Obamas is wrong. It’s the only thing I disagree with Trump. Obama still wants to destroy America even if he’s no longer president.

Trump needs to wake up and start getting tough on the Clintons and the Obamas again just like he did during the campaign trail. Ever since getting elected and sworn in, Trump has gone soft on the Clintons and the Obamas which is sad.

The Clintons and Obama needs to be locked up. So hopefully when Jeff Sessions get confirmed as AG finally which will be today, Sessions will start to investigate the crimes of the Clintons and Obama.

Yep, Obama definitely hates Trump still. Obama wrote that letter to Trump after getting elected just to be nice and to show respect to the new President and that’s all. While Trump is doing a great job keeping most of his promises, he needs to drain the swamp. Get Hillary and Barack locked up ’cause as long as they’re out scot-free still, they will still do whatever they can to destroy America.

Kev

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So I finally upgraded to the full version of Acoustica Mixcraft today…

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So I finally  upgraded to the Acoustica Mixcraft DAW today. I bought the half version from Best Buy like a few years back but never upgraded to the full version until now. I’m quite happy with the software. I think I’ll stick with Acoustica Mixcraft instead of all the other DAW’s that are out there like ProTools, FL Studio, Cubase, Ableton Live, etc.

What’s cool with the Acoustica Mixcraft it’s all a mixing, mastering and MIDI controller all at the same time. It has built in MIDI software in it. The software has every instrument on it you can think of and the instruments sound realistic enough. I could put drums and bass behind my electric guitar songs on this software easily.

Plus, I can make music with all kinds of instruments: strings, brass, etc. Whatever.

I’m still gonna get a MIDI controller to use with it, though… that way I can use the MIDI keyboard to put notes in instead of using the mouse and typing them in. Mixcraft is pretty nice. It not only has a piano roll, it has a “music score” on it where you put your own notes on in the treble clef and bass clef so that’s why I’m trying to learn how to read music.

Will I be making music with orchestration playing in the background? Yes! Absolutely. That’s the kind of music I’ve always wanted to make was to make music with violins, cellos, violas and brass instruments playing in the background. That’s the kind of music I’ve always wanted to sing over and who knows, maybe I’ll make a whole album like that?

First I’m gonna start with making a full band rock album before anything else though. I want to try experimenting with that. I think I can make some great rock n’ roll with heavy distorted guitar. I have plenty of riff ideas spinning in my head.

I’m also gonna have to learn how to mix and master my own music so I can make professional sound quality music. That’s what mixcraft is for, hence the name of the DAW “Mixcraft”.

My home studio setup is almost complete. Just got to get a MIDI controller and then I’m set.

Starting this year I’m probably gonna start writing electric guitar songs and get them out of me. Then I’ll try to figure out how to put drums & bass in the background.

Don’t think I can make some bad ass guitar rock? Watch me. As a matter of fact, a lot of my songs were originally supposed to be full band guitar rock but I played them on acoustic first ’cause I don’t have a band yet. Some of my songs were meant for full band especially a song like “Mr. Tough Guy” which I definitely plan on making a full band version of soon.

Kev

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Will the original Smashing Pumpkins lineup reunite for tour and possible new studio album? Hopefully!!!

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I have been obsessively following Billy Corgan’s documentary project on FB & Youtube called “30 Days”. It’s a video project where Billy travels across America. What’s the project is about? It’s just something he wants to do since he’s not touring at the moment. He’s just travelling around doing some sight seeing, checking out some different small towns & cities… he also goes around meeting people and performing songs with his acoustic guitar at random places. He does this thing called “50 for 50″where he plays like 50 Smashing Pumpkins songs over the years. He has already performed songs from “Siamese Dream” and “Mellie Collie” which both are amazing albums, btw.

There’s a lot of talk and so much buzz about the original Smashing Pumpkins lineup reuniting for a possible tour. Ya know, the original Pumpkins lineup featuring Corgan, D’arcy Wretsky, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin. According to Corgan the man himself, he says he doesn’t know if a tour would happen with them but he is talking with all the members again and he’s getting along with all of them so who knows? I think an original Smashing Pumpkins lineup tour will probably happen this year or next. If it does happen, hopefully they do a new studio album together too.

I love the Smashing Pumpkins. Always did and still do; however, like most people the original lineup will always be important to me. It’ll be fucking awesome if the original lineup would play all the Pumpkins songs from the first three albums on tour: “Gish”, “Siamese Dream” and “Mellie Collie”. All three are pretty amazing albums.

Anyways, I’m really enjoying Billy’s “30 Days” project. I’ve watched every video he did so far. Billy’s an interesting guy in real life. He seems cool and he seems like a nice guy too. I love how Billy loves his fans ’cause as he’s travelling out there, he does get spotted by die-hard Pumpkins fans a lot.

I’m looking forward to hearing Billy’s first solo album too as I will buy it when it comes out. I’ve been a huge Pumpkins fan throughout my life pretty much. They were important to me when I was a teenager in high school. I remember I used to bring my portable CD player to school a lot and I would listen to the Smashing Pumpkins during lunch or study hall or whatever. They were important to me as a kid so it would be cool if the original lineup gets back together so I’m crossing my fingers for now.

Kev

 

 

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Trump doing all the things he’s been promising and driving liberals insane even more… LOVING IT!

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So Trump actually going to build a wall. Banning Muslims/Refugees in the USA. Trying to repeal and replace Obamacare. Soon he’s going to announce a new justice for the Supreme Court in replacement for Scalia. People didn’t think Trump would do all these things. Well, he’s actually doing them and it’s driving liberals insane. Liberals heads has been exploding over Trump’s anti-abortion policies as well. All week long in my facebook page, I’ve seen liberals getting scared to death over the Wall, the Muslim ban and the anti-abortion policies. It’s all entertaining to watch.

While I don’t agree with President Trump being friendly with Hillary and Barack; other than that, Trump is doing a terrific job so far. I’m so impressed with the man. He’s making me feel like an American now. He’s making me love this country even more.

I’ve never seen presidents in the past work this hard. Trump worked all week, even on weekends. There’s no break with this guy at all. Trump gets up early in the morning and works ’til like late at night in the Oval Office.

Ever since Trump got in office, things are already looking good for America. Jobs are slowly starting to come back, the dow jones are way up and Trump just killed the TPP. Trump confirmed the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines are actually happening which is good news. Trump is doing a great job.

The days of “All Talk and No Action” are over. Time to stop talking about things and actually do them. I always knew that Trump  is the real deal. Didn’t take me long to figure it out.

It’s a shame that the media won’t stop attacking him, though. All that proves is how one-sided the media is. They’re in bed with liberal political figures. Liberals will always be on one side which saddens me really. Who cares, though. We got Trump and that’s all it matters. He’s doing an amazing job so far and hope he keeps up the good work.

Kev