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Gabriel's Practice Log
Hey, we bought our first iPhone last Christmas and I immediately went on to explore the vast world of music apps that i previously could not access on Android. After a couple of months in the rabbit hole, I settled on a setup that I actually enjoy using. And now it is time to make noise, not fiddle with settings and apps. And enjoy creating together with my family.
This is why I am creating this practice log of what I am learning while making music.
My setup:
Loopy Pro on iPhone 14 Pro
Musical Typing on a bluetooth keyboard that I bought last year in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rode Wireless Go II
Additionally, I sometimes use:
- Rode Lavalier
- Rode AI-Micro
Unfortunately, I had to drop Koala Sampler as a Plugin. When triggering samples with musical typing it plays them multiple times instead of just once - if there is any way to fix that, let me know, I would love to use it.
Instruments I just enjoy:
* Pianoteq - how can it be so quick and sounds so great? It feels like it plays before I even hit the keys, and it reminds me of the sounds of freaking expensive grand pianos I played in different places - currently using the demo version
* TB Lowtone - I tried several other synths for bass sounds, this one just gives me presets that make me move right out of the box.
Instruments that are useful and fun:
- Pure Strings - amazing, amazing presets to play around with
- Pure Upright and Pure Piano
- EG Pulse - the few presets that they have actually get my body moving.
I got a bunch of plugins that I was playing around with, what I actually found useful to use all the time was TB Compressor for voice. It somehow makes the voice sound a lot better.
Now for the music we create:
We are a Brazilian-German mixed family of three. I grew up around European music and played a ton of instruments in church, recorded my first songs on a tape recorder back in the days and later on MiniDisc. I would like to go back to performing on stage and also make money with that.
I fell in love with the musical diversity of Brazil and what I perceive to be a mix of European harmonics and African rhythms. We love, love, love dancing and the idea is to create music WHILE we are dancing. I started with Koala, which was so much fun and so quick to create with, but lacks the strong looping capabilities that Loopy offers. It is super fast to create a fun beat and bass and sound effects with Koala, but then, how do I align an 8-bar voice element with that while performing.
What I learned so far:
1. It is very easy to get caught in the rabbit hole of getting one more app and not create music.
2. The body knows better than the mind. Complex and danceable rhythms for example are best made with the body. I tried to program beats with several tools, it became just another mental exercise, when I played just stomped on the ground and hit a mattress, it became felt music.
3. What makes me move also makes others move. When I am in sync with who I am and express that through music, it catches on and others join.
Where I would like to go:
1. Make music every day. Not think about music, not analyze music, not get one more tool, but to actually create, to play, to connect, to express.
2. Make music with my family. Music is such a wonderful way to connect, we as humans are all deeply musical and it is a joy to share these moments of creation and expression.
3. Dance and create at the same time. The tools are there, the skills are there. Just clip on a wireless mic and start dancing, create a beat layering sounds of where we are, or hit EG Pulse for something out of the box. Or start with a bass on the bluetooth typing keyboard. I am still surprised how much I enjoy playing Pianoteq on that simple thing. I played Steinways and Bechstein, and still enjoy that simplicity of just pulling out that BT keyboard. It is just freaking crazy to have that sound with that simple equipment.
4. I would love to perform in public again. The closest thing I had done in the past years was to sing together with a class of refugees and immigrants I had the priviledge of accompanying in their learning journey. And when we sang together, we felt united. I still remember that we were singing a song about how our strongest achievement as humans is to be together and to walk together. And in a room with 16 people from 12 different cultures, we felt unity - everyone of us. This is one of the most emotional moments I had with music so far and it still brings tears to my eyes. I would like to experience that in groups and on stage again. It's magical.
Comments
What a cool intro post. Welcome aboard to the LPF family. ❤️
Thank you so much!!!
Welcome @DoidaMusic!
I cannot agree more on the sentiment, that music is the one universal language that everyone understands, and the one language that can bring us all together!
Hi, Gabriel! Welcome to the forum! I think you'll agree with me soon enough that following what folks post here will inspire you to create more music. It's the healthiest digital space I've been in in the past few years.
You said so many important things in this post - "It is very easy to get caught in the rabbit hole of getting one more app and not create music" is an universal truth, I guess. Nothing beats the communal power of music. I myself have been missing this, coming from a background of bands with friends and now creating alone in my office - liberating when it comes to scheduling issues, of course, but still. So I really hope you get to play live again someday, and hopefully I'll get there too.
Also, I'm a Brazilian man married to a Brazilian woman with strong German heritage and we have a kid, so I guess we (kinda) beat you to it as the first Brazilian-German mixed family of three in this forum...just kidding!
Definitely going to follow this thread!
Thank you so much. I'd love to hear more about your experiences with that, if you're open to sharing.
Thank you so much!!
Thanks for the suggestion!! and it is so great to hear that
I'd love to hear what kind of music you are creating. I really would love to play in Brazil one day. Or travel through the different regions and play together with others to explore the huge variety of music. Where in Brazil are you based?
Curious as to whether you have found ways to create music as a family. We are still in the beginning.
Thank you
I took a break from creating music for a couple of days. Last night I was playing again. Almost fell in the rabbit hole of looking for music apps again this morning instead of creating music.