Weez and I are collaborating on another audio project, and we need your input, dear reader:
- How long should the track be? Choose any value between 120 and 300
seconds. - How should the guitar be tuned? Choose one of the following:
- E G D G E D
- G G C G C D
- C G D G B B
- How many guitar tracks should there be? Choose any value betwen 1 and 4.
Pick one question and answer it. First come, first served.
After we have answers to these questions, I will record guitar parts in small
enough chunks that they can be looped and arranged in a variety of ways. Weez will record voice tracks in a similar fashion. Then we will share GarageBand files
of what we’ve recorded and, independently, come up with two final mixes,
arranging the guitar and vocal (and possibly percussion) parts as we see
fit. Two sound files. Many collaborators. Game on.
Update: Weez has posted questions, too.
My answer to No. 3: 2. First mix was excellent; looking forward to this one, too.
Question #1: 300 seconds. At least.
Question #1: 300 seconds. At least.
Sorry. Is there some kind of time lag on Firefox? (I’m sorta/maybe switching from Safari). The comment didn’t show up so I posted again. And look: humiliation!
Anyway, I reiterate: 300 seconds.
How many seconds was that, Miriam?
Okay, only one question on my site left: guitar tuning. The traditional tuning of a guitar is (low string to high string): E A D G B E. I’ve not played much, at all, in alternate tunings, but musicians as diverse as Sonic Youth and Joni Mitchell use them.
Opening tunings first gained prominence in American musice with the blues, when solitary musicians used them to play both the rhythm (chords) and a lead at the same time.
Relevant post on pianist Glenn Gould by Amardeep Singh, who quotes a biography as follows: