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Exploring Creativity and the inner world
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Seeking understanding and integration

10/25/2019

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Have you ever felt stuck?
Have you ever felt hopeless?
Have you ever felt like Quitting?

How do you use reasoning to understand a problem in order to recognize your blind spots?

How do you take something that seems impossible and turn that into actionable things that can bring you closer to your goals?
I'm creating a downloadable guide that you can follow step-by-step to help you solve for your challenges.

If you think you might find this helpful and want it NOW, click over to the Contact page to ask for it. 
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Comment below, what is the biggest challenge you face as an idependent artist?
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Check engine & the recording process

10/12/2019

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Vocal Recording & guide tracks

I sat down with My good pal Levente to write a new song. He contributed The Lyrics, and we spent an afternoon ironing out some Chord progressions and licks. A bit of structure. The next day I  layed down some guide tracks. 

Guitar Recording

Now that the vocal structure is in place, I moved on to re-recording The Guitar tracks. I used My marshall Cab with 3 mics total, two on the amp, 1 on the strings, paying attention to details such as placement and tone quality. the end result.. well you'll have to wait and see.

Drums & Editing

Had Curtis Come in to lay down some drums. It was a great session. Curtis, being a trained studio musician, laid it down in a few easy takes. That being said, I still took the time to do some editing.

the thing about editing is, sometimes it's necessary, sometimes it's not. It depends on a lot of things such as genre, how well the player has learned their part, and how talented of a musician they are to begin with.  

BASS Licks

Everybody loves the BASS. that is unless you're a musician, then the bass player is the butt end of every joke. That being said the Bass, Kick drum, and any instruments making up either the rhythm section or the Low-frequency range are critical to getting a quality end-product.

Cleaning up a session

By this point in the session, I had An abundance of tracks, 4 guitar, 9 Drums, 3 bass, 1 organ, 4 vocals, edits galore and it was beginning to run slow, despite having a powerful workstation. So i decided to go through and 'clean up' the session files. This video explains that.

Mixing without plugins

with a fresh mix session, I sit down and explain the basics of my approach to mixing, but i decided to challenge myself. Make this mix without using plugins. now, for those of you who don't know, plugins are special effects that are added into your audio program, called a DAW or Digital audio workstation. some people call this form of digital music production 'mixing in the box' the box being an all in one integrated studio that lives inside your computer. 
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Songwriting Series: Check Engine

10/1/2019

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Spending the week tracking a new one. thought i'd share

Hey welcome back! Here's a new one i've been playing with in my spare time. A video Series chronicling the creation of this song. Pretty straightforward right?
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so what else is  new?

8/28/2019

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Hey everyone Cody here with some more blog action. 
this month has been exciting, working with Ol'brother Paul on several projects including the 'Paulcast' and the reunion of the way out.
Paulcast on youtube
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Got a chance to talk to Solid Smith about his chip tune project. Chip tunes are a really interesting little micro-genre. Imagine 8-bit video game music, very technical, with interesting hooks and progressive and metal-esque themes. These songs were built in a web app (beepbox.co) with a discord community with contests and stuff. Sounds interesting? 
Solid Smith on Soundcloud
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Edgefest 2019

Yep, Edgefest happens every year. It's a great little festival and the proceeds help needy folks in our (100 mile house) community. 

This year we had 'I'm Not Steve' who plays Acoustic with Cajon drum harmonica, tambourine. I really enjoyed his originals and he had a great voice for bluesy rock. 

Headlining the show once again, was Space Waste. who are planning to get some open-mics happening (again locally) but sadly they are losing one of their band-mates to re-location due to work. Don't worry though. The core of their band (Aaron Tim and Chuck) are still going strong. 

I'm excited what these folks will bring musically in the next little while...
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b o x f i r e 

Patrick (aka None the Weiser)  is polishing up some tracks for his latest project, a dubby, electronic-style album under the name box-fire. As Pat and I are both Tree-planters I get the reference, imagine burning hundreds of 2' x 4' boxes coated in a waxy fuel-source. It's bright, it's impressive.
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i'll decide for one

4/7/2019

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Lyrics: 
All this talk of the waiting time
let me get it right
cause all along the waiting time I tried
and no I never want to settle 
standing on the waiting line
So I'll Decide for one

If there's movement let it ride 
Listen to their lies
While all along there's waiting
I watch them bide their time
and no I never thought of quitting 
Ah I'll just get it right
and if it's got kinetic motion
maybe I'll just stand aside
and no I never want to settle 
​standing on the waiting line
So I'll Decide for one
- - - 
Wanna stop hanging round with evil
stop worshipping heroes
Special thanks to:
Paul, (drums on first half)
Curtis from Stolen Signs. (drums on second half)
Levente (keys and organs)
for the skills and contribution.


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