great chat, thanks 👍 going live in front of an actual real life audience is, as you say, so much more different to going live on the internet... I am now internet only performer because the other option became such a strain on the old mental health much kudos to artists that go out on the road cheers, andy 🙂
I know how your feel. It can be stressful but for me at the moment I'm trying to push myself a bit. If nothing else to catch up for all the years I slept on my music. Either way just getting it out there no matter how you do it is very rewarding and makes space to create more. Thanks for having a listen.
Amazingly helpful for us, the improvisatory dawless performing folks.... Thanks so very much for sharing your process, and thank you for continuing on into the journey, figuring things out and giving us all hope for the creative futures 🙏🙏🙏🌌
Dude, I've been going through this over the last 3 years! I've finally scaled my system down to 3 devices. Still a little too heavy to carry through and airport for hours. Also really resignating to getting melodically stagnant with the new setup. Loving see you go through similar things. Cheers to both of us seeing through the mud
This is so much more work than I thought it would be but in the end I wouldn't trade it for anything. Going on this live performance journey has made me such a better person. More focused more confident....happier!
@@SoulSearchingGaijin I feel that. It's pushed me well outside my comfort zone technology and now I'm learning to communicate with people after live shows and trying to connect with like minded folks online. Glad to have found you.
Im really happy that this video found me! Since I (like a lot of us) doing this alone without any “master” like you, this felt really like answer for all my questions in my head and questions I didn’t knew I had. Thank you for your video, and work.
You made my day. All I ever wanted was to help and inspire. I put myself out there and faced a lot of personal fears this year. At first it stings but if you can forgive yourself of your mistakes you only grow stronger and happier. All the best.
Yeah I love that setup. I will for sure revisit that soon. That video was one of my favorites to make. That just flowed real easy. Thanks for the request.
Thank you for your good advices 🙏 Your video helped me and I just have a question about my situation... I'm a musician for almost 20 years played a lot of gigs with bands, been a sound tech for 10 years. Recently decided to shift to electronic music. Got some gear the last few months (Sampler, synth, drummachine,...) A friend of mine asked me to play 1 hours in a very nice venue. I accepted but have never done it before. I have less than a month to prepare. Would you have some advice to help me focus on the important things and to keep it simple and use my time good ? (I know this is really a uncomfortable situation and I am far of being an expert of any kind. I just want to have fun at the end...) Cheers ✌
I would say 1st keep it simple. Create the music you like and think less is more. If you are comfortable playing the synth maybe create some long ambient "beds" to play over top of and put in your sampler. Sort of like a backing track. Then you can focus on just two devices, the drums and synth. I'm not sue of what type of music you are doing but an hour show is pretty long. I would make a bunch of beats that all can flow easily from one to another and try to use some recurring themes to keep it consistent. Use a small sound pallet, this can also help with continuity between ideas. I would stick to 1 or two keys so you don't get confused when playing over top. Also think about how you are going to transition if you are at different tempos. This is where an ambient bed can help and give you something to fall back on. It can just be some environmental sound maybe with some field recordings or samples of people talking or a bit of dialog from a movie, maybe even a police scanner or something abstract along those lines. It doesn't need to be real precise just give yourself some "vibe" to play over. Just make it free of any beat so it can play under whatever you are doing. Lastly don't procrastinate. Create the music first then practice practice practice. It's ok not to have it all memorized but be comfortable with where everything is and how to manuver through you ideas. Just remember no one's show is ever perfect and most won't even know when you made a mistake. You are your harshest critic. I saw an amazing show last night and almost all the musicians I spoke to after said they F--d it up but I thought it was great. Don't be afraid to make mistakes thats all part of the process. I hope this helps Good Luck and Congrats on your 1st show!!!
Good stuff as usual! I have a question for you: Do you find it hard to strike a balance between things to do with your hands and preprogrammed stuff? It's one of the hardest things for me. Doing live is something I'm only thinking about at the moment but I'm pretty sure it will happen. People have asked, so sooner than later I must deliver. I just do so many styles I'm undecided on what I want to do live. Probably the more experimental drony stuff tbh, that's where my heart lies. I know some people that have pretty much everything preprogrammed which would almost make them as people the star of the show. I don't think that's what I'm about. I'll need things to do with my hands and keep me busy so I don't feel silly.
I feel the same way. I don't just want to hit play and sit back and watch the boxes do everything for me. I have found by giving myself 4 patterns for each song/idea I can create a intro/build/max/outro. I then focus on playing overtop with the keys and manage transitions and control all on the boxes. I can jump back to a previous pattern to drop or raise the energy and tend to change the tuning of my kit/Control all when I go back to an old or previously played pattern to keep it fresh. I can also mute/unmute smaller elements in a pattern like kiks and snares to provide further changes. I'm so new to this that I am still finding my way live. I am not a master on these boxes so I do try to have a solid foundation programed so if I totally freak out from stage fright i can still get by. Like you I love the drony stuff. Substan's channel is one of my favorites. I want to do more stuff like that myself. I think in doing music like that you can spend time messing with settings/fx if you aren't gonna play overtop. I do think it is a good idea to have some solid patterns and some sort of progression preprogramed. It gives you a solid foundation from which you can decide when and where you want to go with the arrangement. Trying to arrange live was horrible for me. I got so lost and let things play way too long. I hope this helps and good luck on the playing live front. That has been the scariest yet most rewarding thing I have done musically. All the best!
Sounds like we have a very similar mindset here. Thanks for your insight, it's very helpful! I agree that Substan is great, very inspiring and well made stuff. Always check out his stuff immediately ^^ Cheers!
great chat, thanks 👍
going live in front of an actual real life audience is, as you say, so much more different to going live on the internet... I am now internet only performer because the other option became such a strain on the old mental health
much kudos to artists that go out on the road
cheers,
andy 🙂
I know how your feel. It can be stressful but for me at the moment I'm trying to push myself a bit. If nothing else to catch up for all the years I slept on my music. Either way just getting it out there no matter how you do it is very rewarding and makes space to create more. Thanks for having a listen.
Amazingly helpful for us, the improvisatory dawless performing folks.... Thanks so very much for sharing your process, and thank you for continuing on into the journey, figuring things out and giving us all hope for the creative futures 🙏🙏🙏🌌
Thank you! I'm just having fun and learning a lot. It only feels right to share what I know so others can enjoy the process also.
Dude, I've been going through this over the last 3 years! I've finally scaled my system down to 3 devices. Still a little too heavy to carry through and airport for hours. Also really resignating to getting melodically stagnant with the new setup. Loving see you go through similar things. Cheers to both of us seeing through the mud
This is so much more work than I thought it would be but in the end I wouldn't trade it for anything. Going on this live performance journey has made me such a better person. More focused more confident....happier!
@@SoulSearchingGaijin I feel that. It's pushed me well outside my comfort zone technology and now I'm learning to communicate with people after live shows and trying to connect with like minded folks online. Glad to have found you.
@@ShamazMusic Me too.
Yes and yes 🙏🤙🌌
Now your name suddenly makes sense. This episode was such a trip inside my soul and my own search. Thank you! Cheers from Romania!
Thanks for the kind words. I'm so glad you could relate.
Im really happy that this video found me!
Since I (like a lot of us) doing this alone without any “master” like you, this felt really like answer for all my questions in my head and questions I didn’t knew I had.
Thank you for your video, and work.
You made my day. All I ever wanted was to help and inspire. I put myself out there and faced a lot of personal fears this year. At first it stings but if you can forgive yourself of your mistakes you only grow stronger and happier. All the best.
Great advice, I've been going trough the same process but got stuck halfway. feeling energized to pick it up again. Thanks for the inspiration
That makes my day. If I can do it anyone can.
Video request - just chill out with the piano/cosmos set up for a bit! Good luck with the gig.🙂
Yeah I love that setup. I will for sure revisit that soon. That video was one of my favorites to make. That just flowed real easy. Thanks for the request.
excellent channel !!! i will be back for sure !!! thks for all !!!
Thanks for finding me. I hope you get a chance to check out some of my tracks on youtube. There is some nice stuff on here.
@ definetly 👍
Keep it up. I like your honesty when things go wrong. Subbed.
Thank you. I never get everything right but I think thats true for all of us.
Thank you for your good advices 🙏 Your video helped me and I just have a question about my situation... I'm a musician for almost 20 years played a lot of gigs with bands, been a sound tech for 10 years. Recently decided to shift to electronic music. Got some gear the last few months (Sampler, synth, drummachine,...) A friend of mine asked me to play 1 hours in a very nice venue. I accepted but have never done it before. I have less than a month to prepare. Would you have some advice to help me focus on the important things and to keep it simple and use my time good ? (I know this is really a uncomfortable situation and I am far of being an expert of any kind. I just want to have fun at the end...) Cheers ✌
I would say 1st keep it simple. Create the music you like and think less is more. If you are comfortable playing the synth maybe create some long ambient "beds" to play over top of and put in your sampler. Sort of like a backing track. Then you can focus on just two devices, the drums and synth. I'm not sue of what type of music you are doing but an hour show is pretty long. I would make a bunch of beats that all can flow easily from one to another and try to use some recurring themes to keep it consistent. Use a small sound pallet, this can also help with continuity between ideas. I would stick to 1 or two keys so you don't get confused when playing over top. Also think about how you are going to transition if you are at different tempos. This is where an ambient bed can help and give you something to fall back on. It can just be some environmental sound maybe with some field recordings or samples of people talking or a bit of dialog from a movie, maybe even a police scanner or something abstract along those lines. It doesn't need to be real precise just give yourself some "vibe" to play over. Just make it free of any beat so it can play under whatever you are doing.
Lastly don't procrastinate. Create the music first then practice practice practice. It's ok not to have it all memorized but be comfortable with where everything is and how to manuver through you ideas. Just remember no one's show is ever perfect and most won't even know when you made a mistake. You are your harshest critic. I saw an amazing show last night and almost all the musicians I spoke to after said they F--d it up but I thought it was great. Don't be afraid to make mistakes thats all part of the process. I hope this helps Good Luck and Congrats on your 1st show!!!
Good stuff as usual! I have a question for you:
Do you find it hard to strike a balance between things to do with your hands and preprogrammed stuff? It's one of the hardest things for me. Doing live is something I'm only thinking about at the moment but I'm pretty sure it will happen. People have asked, so sooner than later I must deliver. I just do so many styles I'm undecided on what I want to do live. Probably the more experimental drony stuff tbh, that's where my heart lies.
I know some people that have pretty much everything preprogrammed which would almost make them as people the star of the show. I don't think that's what I'm about. I'll need things to do with my hands and keep me busy so I don't feel silly.
I feel the same way. I don't just want to hit play and sit back and watch the boxes do everything for me. I have found by giving myself 4 patterns for each song/idea I can create a intro/build/max/outro. I then focus on playing overtop with the keys and manage transitions and control all on the boxes. I can jump back to a previous pattern to drop or raise the energy and tend to change the tuning of my kit/Control all when I go back to an old or previously played pattern to keep it fresh. I can also mute/unmute smaller elements in a pattern like kiks and snares to provide further changes. I'm so new to this that I am still finding my way live. I am not a master on these boxes so I do try to have a solid foundation programed so if I totally freak out from stage fright i can still get by.
Like you I love the drony stuff. Substan's channel is one of my favorites. I want to do more stuff like that myself. I think in doing music like that you can spend time messing with settings/fx if you aren't gonna play overtop. I do think it is a good idea to have some solid patterns and some sort of progression preprogramed. It gives you a solid foundation from which you can decide when and where you want to go with the arrangement. Trying to arrange live was horrible for me. I got so lost and let things play way too long.
I hope this helps and good luck on the playing live front. That has been the scariest yet most rewarding thing I have done musically. All the best!
Sounds like we have a very similar mindset here. Thanks for your insight, it's very helpful! I agree that Substan is great, very inspiring and well made stuff. Always check out his stuff immediately ^^
Cheers!