What a cool way to be reintroduced to an old friend. Have a listen, he's got some cool ideas there.
Glad you dig it. I was extremely impressed. It's really neat when you can hear a friends music and you actually like it.
Steve, thanks and good to hear from you. Have your CDs and am always checking in to see if you have new stuff on the website or YouTube. Are you in Michigan?
No, we moved out to North Carolina. My wife is working at Duke. We come back and visit often though. We should get together. I have posted some demos for the next album here, if you don't mind listening to songs in a very early stage. Gotta say, I'm very impressed with your sense of melody and the overall feel of your work. Nice work Jonas. How is your family? How is Jordan? Hope all is well. I'll pm you my email address. We ought to stay in touch.
Thanks for the link, ill listen in the morning! My Family is great, we have a little girl (Norah 3) who is the sweetest thing on the planet, my parents live 5 miles away and Cathy and I teach here in Howell at 2 different elem schools. Jordan makes music as well, but with samples and works for a floral place here in Howell. I know I say thanks alot, but thanks (again) for listening and the nice comments! Keep in touch and as you here things on SoundCloud let me know what you like. Talk to you soon.
That's all great to hear Jonas, please give them all my best. Next time we are in town we will have to get our daughters together. My little girl just turned 2. Being a father is the best experience I've ever had, by far. I will absolutely keep checking out your tunes on soundcloud and I'd be happy to give them a closer listen and make some notes. 700+ songs ideas? That's impressive man.
Would love to get together at some point and congratulations on being a dad, it is a great feeling and a ton of fun. As for the 700 parts, that's just what they are, parts and that's 10 years of recording too. Talk to you soon Steve!
bgood79, have a listen to this. It's an old friend of mine. He's interested in starting to play with people. He's playing all the instruments here. Has a ton of ideas. Next time I'm in town we should all hang.
Hey, I am not going to have more time to work on the song so I'm going to post it now. I just went with the one I was originally working on. It was fun, the song is pretty bad, but I enjoyed making it. I'll post it here and "shout out" to you in the post. I look forward to hearing what you came up with.
I'm listening in a minute, are u around for a few more min?
yep. Good time right now, wife and daughter are at the museum.
Converting songs to mP3, will upload and then listen to yours, fully. I started yours, then Norah woke up, can't believe yours so far. The fuzzy guitar is really sticking with me still (especially how the last note of it rings out). Could totally see playing this live and having it fill the room with such a good/ deep feeling. I will write more after a few listens.
My good friend Brian. One of the best guitarist I've played with. He was also the guitar player in the new green. I think he'd dig your songs. Btw, I had a closer listen today while out for a run. Some of the melodies have stuck with me all day. The snippets are too short though, I'd like to hear them play out longer. bgood79 and I had a challenge going to record a song every week and share it with the other. Would you be interested in doing that? It's a great way to force yourself to create something and try to finish it. Let me know.
Cool, do you and Brian ever work on songs together through email? Thats so great that some of the melodies stuck with you! The snippets are to short, but I wanted to cram as many as I could Ina short time span. Each of those snippets are actually 1 to 1-1/2 minutes long and some have second parts, while most are just the same part over and over . I can always send you parts if you really wanted to hear more. As for the week to week challenge, that might be fun and exciting to hear and share new music like that, are you guys doing this right now?
What do you record with?I can always send you parts if you really wanted to hear more.
-Yes, please do. I would sincerely like to hear more.do you and Brian ever work on songs together through email?
We've been talking about doing this ever since I've moved to NC. I record with protools and brian wants to buy a set up too but each time he's about to he buys a new guitar, a thousand dollar turn-table. -big vinyl collector. Funny you mention it because we were just talking about it today.
I bought Logic and used if for a few months, but it just felt liKe it had to many options, buttons, menus etc... (Still have it though and do use it for a few things like electric piano and some other features). I use Garageband and love it, it's simple, quick and has everything i need. Sounds like Brian has a tone of gear, does he record or have a soundcloud? Steve I meant to ask you do you have any photos of where you record at home, I love to see where people play and their set ups?
I have garage band too. So does Brian. I've not really used it much but I'm guessing that it is pretty intuitive. What do you think about writing and recording a song by Sunday (week from today) and sharing it? Doesn't have to be anything amazing, just an exercise to get us writing and recording. I did this once with my friend Gareth and he suggested that we each write a "Joyful" song. Here is my "Joyful song" -So you see that it isn't anything brilliant. It was fun to make though. So, what do you say? We don't need to make a category, just write a song. Something you've not previously written. You game?
A complete song? Can it be one I started tonight, just a part that needs all other parts?
Also: I don't have any good pictures of my recording space, but it's nothing to write home about. You can see some of my gear HERE as well as a bunch of other "hubskiers". You should post some pics of your set up there.
Sure. I think the key thing is to not over think it and just have fun. Also, I've been recording podcasts, you can check them out here: #tngpodcast and I was wondering if I could use some instrumental music from you? Check them out and let me know if you're okay with that.
Will Brian be completing a song by Sun as well?
I don't think so but I'll call him today and see if he's down. He doesn't write a lot of originals but likes to record his version of cover songs. I'll see though
Ok, this will make me possibly finish a song for the first time ever. My instrumentals are only 1-1.5 min long only and I never use a metrenone. Do you have one or some you would like (time Of snippet on Soundcloud)? I'll check out the podcast tomorrow for sure and get back with you. Wanted to tell you too, I really like "new kind of me", did you right all of that? I wrote this on your soundcloud so you will see this there too, but it sounds really fun to play. Have u played this live with the new green? Does Dan still do drums for you and is that. Dan on the track? Lots of questions.
We definitely played this song live, it was one of my favorites. During the breakdown section we would have a trombone solo -run through some effects, that sounded really cool. I always liked Brians complimentary vocals on this song too, he's got a great voice. Dan is a professional musician though so he expects to get paid for shows, which is understandable as it's how he earns his living. Ben the key/trombonist is also a professional musician so when we played shows I essentially just split the door between the two of them. The shows were really fun, I miss it a lot.I never use a metronome.
-I also prefer not to use one but when I started playing with drummers in the studio it definitely caused some problems not using a metronome.Do you have one or some you would like (time Of snippet on Soundcloud)?
This is hard to answer because they're not labeled at all. I like the first snippet a lot and then the first one with vocals "turn around and..." plus a number of others.
Wanted to tell you too, I really like "new kind of me", did you right all of that?
-Thanks, I definitely did not do all of it. I wrote it and even wrote and came up with a lot of the arrangements but I didn't play the instruments and there are definitely things that Brian and Ben (keys trombone) came up with. Also, Dan was a big part of helping to shape the song. It was definitely a collaborative process.Does Dan still do drums for you and is that. Dan on the track?
-Yes that is Dan. As I live in NC, I don't really have a "band" anymore but I'm pretty sure that Dan and the rest of the gang would be down with playing if I were in MI. We had fun together.
Thanks for all the info back! As for the snippets, mabe just the time the snippet startswould work?
Okay, may be a bit before I can get to that. I have a big work week and so far I've not been able to take notes -hard to write down the time stamp while running. I will though, and I look forward to it. I look forward to hearing the song you come up with. Can't wait to get working on mine. I haven't recorded anything new in months, this is just what I needed. Thanks man.
Whenever is fine and if you don't get to picking through the song parts I'm just happy you liked some of them and maybe I can send you full versions in the future. I look forward to your song as well, kind of a cool way to approach a song. Steve, do you play those drums on some of your demos?
I play on some of the really crappy early demos like This one but anything that has been done in studio is Dan. You can clearly hear the difference. Dan's amazing, I'm a newbie. Dan actually gave me a few lessons to get me started but I've not played much lately. Just too busy during the day and then at night they're too loud. I do enjoy it quite a bit though.
I really like that song actually, has a cool feel and the drums sound great, especially for a demo. I wanted to ask you, what kind of work do u do, is it Hubski related? Sorry for all of the reply's back and forth, I know it is time consuming, I have to be honest though its just nice to conversate with someone who plays, it's been like 12 yrs of staying to myself with music, except for talking and sharing with Cathy, who is by far my biggest supporter.
I definitely work on Hubski a lot. Doesn't feel like work though.
Hey Steve, just checking in to see how the recording is going?
I started something last night but it really sucks. I think I may scrap it and start over. It was fun though. I had an idea a while back that I think I might try and tackle tomorrow night. How is it going for you?
OK, just trying to find the time and just trying to get in the mind frame of putting one part with another, have always came up with a part and then moved on. Did u get ahold of your friend Brian?
Yeah, he's out. I'll have something to show on Sunday night. It may be crap, but still it's the process that matters. Making music is fun.
So fun and either way Ill have something too, most likely with no vocal. Excited to hear your song, talk to you Sun.
edisonbaines, is this the music he was playing for you when you stopped by? This is Jonas, right? I'm really impressed. Need to move back to MI and see if I can get him to jam with me.