Well, I've been looking for a guitar player to collaborate with, but nothing's come up on Craiglist; so I'm wanting to put another ad up. But before I do, I want a little more than the one tune I had up, so people can listen to what I'm doing and get an idea of whether it's worth it to them to respond to my listing.
So today I turned on the amp, turned on the Zoom H4, and just played for a while. I made a ton of mistakes, crashed and burned on several songs, and just made stuff up from time to time. I didn't go back and try to get any of the songs right. I was hoping to just get enough usable samples of my playing to give interested guitar players an idea of my playing. When I turned the amp off, I didn't really think any of it was salvageable.
But when I played it back, yes it was sloppy and yes there were mistakes, and yes some crash and burns; but a lot of it did seem useful for a Craigslist demo. So I cut out the crash and burn tunes, and did a few fade outs; and what's left is in the order I played it.
There are some fairly complete versions of some of my tunes, and a few pieces of tunes, and some improvised stuff. I originally recorded in MP3 format, which I'm now wishing I had recorded in wave format. Before uploading, I had to convert to wave, and Bandcamp then converts it back to MP3; so there is some loss of fidelity that is quite noticeable. But still, I think these recordings give a fairly good idea of what my bass and rig sound like at the moment.
I still can't play these tunes consistently enough to make finished recordings or to take them out in public to a coffee shop. But that's ok, I like practicing.
So, for those of you that might like to hear them, my Sunday afternoon playing session is
here.
