I been taking a break posting to my blog. No reason. In fact, it's hard to believe that it was June 6 that I posted last. Time to post more regularly.
I've been busy weekends composing music contained in my great-grandmother's poetry book named "Songs of Praise and Victory". My great-grandmother was also a musician and the composer of "The AP&L Polka". As far as I know, she never wrote music for these words.
At the end 2004, I made a pledge to myself to try and compose music for one of her poems. I never would have expected that I could have composed music for 25 poems before November. In fact, I didn't compose the first one until May. So I have actually been completing about one poem each week. Most of the work on this is done on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
In addition to writing the music, I also have completed scoring and performing the required instruments. All of this work is being done on the Apple Mac G5 running Garageband software.
For the vocal performance, I have been renting studio time from Ben Morgan. Ben has done the engineering. I have been spending about $50 per song for a demo vocal. Though I have been very pleased with the instrumental arrangements and performances, the vocal performances are very weak. This is primarily due to the fact that I am not a singer and secondarily to the shortness of time that I have been able to afford at Ben's studio.
I have hopefully solved the studio time issue by purchasing a Studio Project C1 microphone and a Tascam 122 analog to digital converter. I have assembled the parts and will install the Tascam software on my G5 on Friday. Hopefully, if all goes well, I'll be recording vocals on Saturday morning.
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