James Bisset: 50th Anniversary Edition

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.
Neither is quite true. I’m a shite drummer and the kit in question is the ubiquitous DD502, which [...]

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 make my computer sound like a real drummer, it suddenly became obvious that what I needed was [...]

‘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 an hour? HA!
All right, I’ll be honest, sometimes it’s more than half an hour. But Jazzarian is now [...]

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 the studio, which had a fine layer of smoke and tar over everything: fresh start, new [...]