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    lyrics: a question of taste

    is the following metaphor too pompous/affected/intellecual whatever? (its the chorus) travelling in the realm of the senses sometimes I'd like to lose my way still I stop to collect my souvenirs (need my othe line here :)) anyway the metaphor is, the realm of the senses as a land we can...
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    Selling CDs - legal questions

    If somone helps you make a demo CD - lets say you pay them a small amount, or they volunteer as a freind - how do you handle it if you decide to sell the CD and you sell a fair amount, especially if you are selling the CD direct for cash? (I think the issue would be clearer if you were...
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    Chords chords chords

    I'm getting better at this setting chords to melodies thing. Now the challenge is to be able to play what I've writ. btw - I've found I have a real love for 7th chords. I think that must be a piano thing. I'm really looking forward to being able to play my stuff on the guitar.
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    Street/Busking

    Anyone here done this? what kind of results did you have? (Seems a lot of one-man (uh person) acts, usually folky stuff, can get some sucess this way. I know a two man act, flamenco guitar and a percussionist who have good sucess with this)
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    rrrrrrggggggg (or writers block part 3)

    I sat in my studio (ok, it has a tv) from about 11 in the morning -or even earlier, till about 9 at night with one song. This song consits of 8 lines, (2 quatrains) its all verse, no chorus. After the whole day, all I suceeded in doing was manipulatings those quatrains a bit to nail my "AA...
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    Barring

    When I was learning guitar the music store put a heavier guage (with the top 3 strings metal) set of strings. Triying to learn bar chords killed me. Several months later I'm thinking the guage was too heavy and thats why it was so hard to bar. Would heavier guage strings be really hard for...
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    changing your song

    The other day in my music lesson my teach hacked my melody. I had taken my song originally for a lesson about how to find the right chords. She changed one note in one part, but significantly changed it in another part, and really moved away from the chords I was trying to use. I felt like...
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    Wow - just did my first vocal recording!

    and my voice SUCKS!! I had no idea I sounded that bad!
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    no right channel on Line-in

    Can anybody help? I want to plug my Alesis synth directly into my sound card, but when it plays across the PC's speaker, only the left channel is comes out. I did some 'sanity checks' I reset the Alesis. I played it on my head phones- left & right channel were equally balanced. I played it...
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    I would never listen to half the stuff I write

    I would never listen to half the stuff I write but, it may not be such bad stuff. Just not my taste. I like cheap international dance music (Bhangra, Arabic pop etc) or alterna stuff like RadioHead (kid A) Neutral Milk Hotel) or nasty RnB/Hip hop I write stuff that would be great for a...
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    Timing problems in midi>audio mixdown in Sonar

    Hello, I want to mix down my midi tracks, DXI tracks and add vocals to make one wave file. Here's my problem Somehow, recording the outputs of my external midi module back into an audio track in Sonar results in an audio track that is somewhat faster and shorter than the original midi...
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    first recording - how can I do it?

    Hi, I want to get two songs onto a CD. These are my first songs, and this is my first time to try recording. I have Sonar 2 with the (internal) DXI synth, an Alesis synth, a Shure mic, an Aiwa stereo and finally GoldWave. With all this, and a bunch of cables, i cant figure out how to...
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    Buzz Buzz Buzz

    I've hooked my Aiwa cassette and Cd player line-out into my Yamaha AC-XG sound card line in. Ok, I used Radio Shack cables - but cables man! shouldn't make that much of a difference right? Anyway, I got buzz. buzz n hum. Its always there. I wanted to use the aiwa as a pre-amp & record...
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