Progress

Learning to drum is teaching me the importance of both left hand and right hand in playing musical insruments. And maybe it can change your personality too.

From Caedmon songs to Twitter via pedal boards and guitar pickups, a general review and update.

Yes, it’s beginning to dawn on me that the view from over here in the oldies corner seems to reach a lot further. I can see things now I never saw before. Now, where did I put my specs…

The newspapers all do it, the TV channels all do it, the magazines (’books’ if you live in Manchester, UK) all do it, so why the hell not?

At last, almost four years after my first attempt at making a click track follow a live performance, I’ve finally sussed out how to do it in Logic. And here’s how you can do it too!

I was possibly a little unfair in my previous post Drumming for Beginners, which might have given the false impression to the more trusting amongst you that I was actually an excellent drummer with a superb electronic kit.

So, what have I been up to in my long struggle to avoid actually finishing a song?
Well, I’ve decided to learn how to play the drums.
This is an ingenious and cunning plan. Instead of spending hours trying to…

‘More music – less tech’, cry readers.

I know, it’s been ages.
But hey, I’ve been busy!
Work, as always, gets in the way, and at one or two o’clock in the morning, it’s very tempting just to wind down with half an hour of WoW.
Half…

One of the interesting side effects of stopping smoking is that the extended mid-life crisis that is the 50th Anniversary Edition is now having a little mid-life crisis of its own.
Having stopped smoking, it was time to clean out…