TCE Talks Episode 17 - On recording yourself practicing
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Here's a video in which I discuss recording yourself practicing and some things that I learnt when working on an excerpt of a Count Basie tune.
I'm finally back. I've got another video in the making and two more planned. Fingers crossed I can get back into a rhythm of releasing new talks every week. Thank you for sticking around.
My new CJ Mod mouthpiece is available from neotericbrass....
You'll also find the Set, Breathe, Play! eBook that I mentioned. Buy it - it's cheap!
More info about the Barkley Infinity Microphone as barkleymic.com/
Thanks for watching!
That mouthpiece you designed looks very similar to the one that Louis Armstrong had made for him many years ago.😊
Congrats on squaring things away and thanks for another enlightening video! Love your old practicing videos BTW. Back when I played regularly… and could actually play (which btw was before smart phones), I always had a handheld cassette recorder to review my practice sessions, full band rehearsals, and performances. It was really helpful.
Regarding digital multitracking… it can be really tricky. It’s a different animal as compared to the days of analog recording. There’s latency in the initial analog to digital conversion making you feel behind the beat, then latency in the digital to analog conversion when recorded tracks are coming back to you through the headphones (which will compound as you add more tracks and/or effects processing), and while you can attempt to compensate for latency by adjusting the buffer size, no computer-based recording system is actually 100% latency free. Some are close! I know musicians who feel disconnected from their instruments if the system has anything more than a millisecond of delay. Many folks don’t notice it, but will admit something feels “off” as they struggle to lock in. That’s why some “older” producers (those that worked in analog) get frustrated by the time they have to spend nudging individually recorded digital tracks in order to get things perfectly in time.
Then of course there’s monitoring, which can be significantly impacted by wearing open and/or closed “cans.” What typically happens is your brain is trying to reconcile (in real time) the difference between the sound coming out of the bell and filling the room and the slightly latent sound of the performance coming back through the headphones. “BOOM”… my head exploded just thinking about it. I’ll stop now. 😃
I’m just trying to say, “Don’t beat yourself up!” Nice job!
Thanks!! It’s certainly a steep learning curve for a classically trained player. I did a bunch of music technology courses when I was growing up but none of them actually got to the point where you were trying to make quality recordings of acoustic instruments.
I’ve got some more recordings in the up-coming video about my cornet and the timing on that was much more challenging!
The one that didn’t look plated.
Really enjoy your videos!
I'm glad you have your job sorted out, moving forward. Also, I'm glad you are back to posting.thanks for bringing up the essential idea of set, breathe, play. Most students fail to account for this in my experience. I was introduced to that through teachers in the Stamp lineage (although the 1st 2 items were taught in reverse the concept of readiness holds true). It's just my opinion, but I've observed more players miss their 1st note trying to adhere to the immediate in-out concept of the Chicago school. Thanks also for confirming that tce helps notes sound when intended. I was accused for being late for years and mistakenly thought this was a weakness in my hearing rather than my execution. I've noticed this issue has fallen away for me thanks to my change in this area.
When I was putting the ebook together I was thinking “this is good practice but not for TCE” just because … and even within this video I demonstrated … what I do is breathe, set, play.