FMS-Blog : The Wildly Whimsical, Mostly Musical WebLog
Friday, May 19, 2006
Sample Recording Available Now
There's been a bit of an update on my website - this afternoon I posted an mp3 of myself playing some piano pieces as a sample of what I can offer to a couple for their wedding reception or party. The update is on the 'performance' section of this website and can be found by clicking below :
http://www.finishmysong.com/fp.html
I actually knocked the recording up very simply at home lastnight. A friend from The First Few came round to the house with a digital four track (Tascam Pocketstudio 5) and we ran through a random selection of cocktail type pieces, and the odd bit of light classical stuff such as the very famous Bach Prelude in C - my friend set up the mic and sorted out the levels etc whilst I got on with playing the pieces. It's actually really strange trying to play in that environment - I found myself much more self-conscious playing to a small recording device than I do when I play in public. Hasten to add, then, that I needed a couple of takes on one or two of the pieces because of the distraction!
Once the recording part was done, I chose some contrasting pieces and sections of songs from the master copy and spliced them into a new mp3 track, using SoundForge. So, when you go onto the site you should be able to listen to one 10 minute track that fades you in and out of various musical styles and genres etc.
Let me know what you think of it - I don't think it's so bad, given that it's a home recording that my friend and I put together in less than an hour. It is only meant as a guide as to the kind of stuff I play at these occasions but, of course, this is to be discussed for each individual event in any case.
http://www.finishmysong.com/fp.html
I actually knocked the recording up very simply at home lastnight. A friend from The First Few came round to the house with a digital four track (Tascam Pocketstudio 5) and we ran through a random selection of cocktail type pieces, and the odd bit of light classical stuff such as the very famous Bach Prelude in C - my friend set up the mic and sorted out the levels etc whilst I got on with playing the pieces. It's actually really strange trying to play in that environment - I found myself much more self-conscious playing to a small recording device than I do when I play in public. Hasten to add, then, that I needed a couple of takes on one or two of the pieces because of the distraction!
Once the recording part was done, I chose some contrasting pieces and sections of songs from the master copy and spliced them into a new mp3 track, using SoundForge. So, when you go onto the site you should be able to listen to one 10 minute track that fades you in and out of various musical styles and genres etc.
Let me know what you think of it - I don't think it's so bad, given that it's a home recording that my friend and I put together in less than an hour. It is only meant as a guide as to the kind of stuff I play at these occasions but, of course, this is to be discussed for each individual event in any case.
