This week I decided to get my music/study room organized. It still needs work, but I have it more cleared out and ready for any recordings, study sessions, drum lessons with my son, and practice sessions for myself. I began setting up my acoustic padding as well to help with dampening the sound and trapping some of the bass. I also made a breakthrough in some of the recording process with my uncle by doubling up his guitar tracks and adding little accents and flare to the rhythm section of the songs.
The beginning of the week I decided right in the middle of doing homework I was going to rearrange my music/study room. I had some speakers lying in the middle of the floor, and many different boxes that needed consolidating. I was starting to feel a little overwhelmed and out of focus and figured it had to do with my environment being out of whack. It isn't completely done, but I have it cleared out and set up in a more organized way for me to get things done, and it immediately helped with my studying and progress in my schoolwork.
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Finally got my music/study room in a somewhat workable space!
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Speaking of progress with schoolwork, my son started improving with his study habits and focusing on his schoolwork after engaging in more scheduled music lessons on his little drum set, I got for his Christmas gift a year ago. He has played a few times on his little 4-piece set, but this time he really wanted to keep going and was really focused on the patterns of counting and playing the beat.  |
| Drum cut out for snare drum practice strokes |
I have found a set of 6 simple drum lessons from My Music Workshop.com on YouTube and Johnny loves them.
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My Music Workshop drum lessons for kids
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After a few times, he has got the 4/4-time kick/snare combo and kick/kick/snare combo down! He has also learned how to practice hitting on the snare drum with his single and double hit patterns. He loves those because they color code his left and right hit as blue for left and red for right.
He has really caught on because he loves Number Blocks, a show that is on Netflix that teaches numbers and math, and he loves colors.  |
| Red & Blue stroke patterns for snare hits. |
In other news, I have started to setup my acoustic padding for my room to help with my sound quality and dampening the noise that comes out of the room as well as goes in. I have run into a little bit of a snag as the Velcro strips I got don't stick as well as I had hoped, so I will have to move on to some T-pins my drummer, Kevin told me about.
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| T-Pins for hanging my acoustic padding |
It has at least given me the idea of how I want to set it up, gaining some knowledge online and from my drummer who's going to Full Sail University in Florida in Audio Engineering. Learned that you can set up these pieces in the corner called bass traps that trap a lot of the low frequency sound that muddies up in the room and bounces around everywhere. I also placed a few paddings on the wall opposite of where my monitors point. This is called the reflection point and it is good to keep the sound from bouncing back and hitting your ears while you're listening to what is in front of you.
Finally, this week I met up with my uncle, Lynn who is trying to get his stuff together to move out to my little brother, James' place where our mother also lives. Lynn is her brother, and it will be nice to have our immediate family close together, whereas right now he is staying on my stepdad's property. I tightened the lugs up on his little 60's era Shasta trailer he renovated, and we hooked it up to his El Camino and repositioned it to where he can fix the trailer lights and get it road worthy to move it over to James' place. After that we had our usual Sunday practice/recording session. This time, however, it came out more magical than I had imagined it would. I already knew he was going to re-record his guitar parts for the rhythm section, I just didn't know he going to make it sound as nice as it came out! He basically added a doubled guitar part that was slightly out of phase and some of it had the same chording just higher up on the neck and it came out wonderfully! Now I am working on mixing it down, and adding some better takes on the bass while he works up his lead part for next weekend.
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