Learning to play an instrument
Greetings from the United flight deck between LA and Melbourne (via Sydney.)
A quick meal... a bloody mary or 2 and the creative juices are flowing.
Over the weekend just passed (July 4th long weekend) a couple of packages arrived for me in my quest to learn to read, write and play music.
I now have a portable, roll up keyboard called appropriately enough... "The Roll Up Piano" (by Yamano) and some software by eMedia called "Piano and Keyboard Method" for my Macbook Pro.
In addition to the above... I also have Logic Express 8... again for my Macbook Pro.
For those not familiar with the music industry... Logic (now owned by Apple) is pretty much the Windows of the music writing and production space.
I remember reading some time ago (late 90's if memory serves) that around 90% of all Grammy award winners had their music written and/or produced using Logic.
I'm familiar with the Logic series of software... having used it as far back as when it was on the Atari 520 ST... and as recently as a couple of years back while writing/producing a few tunes Richard and I wrote together (as per my previous post Anatomy of a Hit... Richard the one that can actually play... me the one that 'played' the computer.)
I didn't have much time over the weekend to familiarize myself with the new set up (after-all Hancock and Wall-E wouldn't watch themselves) but I was able to play a tune on the Hand Roll that had been running through my head (while jogging no less... excuse the pun)... and then manually enter it into Logic (at this stage my Midi cable had not arrived.)
Will be back in Australia this weekend coming... and am looking forward to starting with the lessons... and making a start at the tune eluded to in 'Anatomy of a hit'.
