The What We're Not Good At Group

skoptic

Hi Group - thanks for sharing. I'm conflicted about forums - so I'm a lurker.

I'm also a noodler these days. I used to be prolific and be very good at developing ideas to finished songs. Now I have analysis paralysis and don't progress anything. The recent thread about writers block was full of sage words and useful advice ... many thanks to all!

JohnnyGoodyear

OUR FIRST LURKING NOODLER!

db909

"The Non-Commital Lurking Noodlers: An Audiobus Forum Band."

mister_rz

My left hand is a dud and doesn't listen to my commands, which can make using synths a chore, it can do basic stuff tho. Also for years I thought if I wanted more bass, just turn it up or use fx, only to recently discover with bass less is usually more. Trying to get my head around all the reverse concepts in audio production has come at great cost to my sanity, but also a feeling of exhilaration once I grasp usually very simple concepts.

Igneous1

On reflection, something I'm not good at is self promotion.
I do what's needed to be done with a release, but I can't be bothered sending out email promo lists and the like. I'd rather just crack on with the next project.

AudioGus

@Igneous1 said:
On reflection, something I'm not good at is self promotion.
I do what's needed to be done with a release, but I can't be bothered sending out email promo lists and the like. I'd rather just crack on with the next project.

I would be great at self promotion if the world wanted what I had to give. Then it would be easy.

supanorton

Hello, my name is Artie and I'm a ...

good rock and roll rhythm guitar player and I think, of the hundred or so songs I've written, that I've written a handful of good ones. I can sing pretty well as long as I stay in my narrow lane. I can't program drums and I can't do anything with midi. Those two things suck the fun out of everything for me. I'd love to be able to figure out the midi thing.

Thanks to @JohnnyGoodyear for allowing us to lie on the couch and confess. It beats that booth in the church.

Feeling better already.

wim

My weakness is tying ideas together into finished pieces. I've become pretty good at building up 1 to 16 bar phrases that sound pretty good, then layering many things on top. My brain tells me that all I need to do is peel back some of the layers, combine them in different ways, and then string them together with something out of the huge pile of other good 1 to 16 bar phrases, to make a finished piece.

Never happens.

But I do have this huge and growing pile of bits of stuff that I go back through sometimes and am surprised realize I created and sounds pretty damn good. If the magic ever happens and I start to pull things together, I could actually put out some shit that doesn't totally suck.

Unless I'm to old to care at that point.

wim

My other weakness is naming things. I can't for the life of me come up with names for all this pile of stuff. For lack of a better system, I name them by date. Its pretty shocking to pull out a pattern in iElectribe named "2012-11-18" and think "Shit, really? I made that? That don't suck even a little."

lovadamusic

I'm not good at composing long lists.

JeffChasteen

@wim said:
My other weakness is naming things. I can't for the life of me come up with names for all this pile of stuff. For lack of a better system, I name them by date. Its pretty shocking to pull out a pattern in iElectribe named "2012-11-18" and think "Shit, really? I made that? That don't suck even a little."

I have many weaknesses, but naming things isn't one of them. I could have been freaking Adam in Paradise, I tell ya.

RUST( i )K

@JohnnyGoodyear said:
OUR FIRST LURKING NOODLER!

That's ok if he just wants to watch.

But we need to talk about the rules if things get further along.

Does he know the safe word?