{"id":1310,"date":"2009-09-20T15:41:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2009-09-20T15:41:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:41:26","slug":"fun-with-drums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/20\/fun-with-drums\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun . . . with drums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh drums, you never steer me wrong. After years of neglect, I have started spending time during the week working on my drum technique. I&#8217;ve also met several people here in Dallas who seem interested in jamming. This has only made me more interested in having fun with drumming.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve missed drumming. It&#8217;s in my bio as something I do (indeed, I never actually gave it up). I have neglected it for a while, and now with the new place in Dallas we finally have the space to have a music room. I&#8217;ve setup a small personal recording area, using an old laptop and a lot of cables. It&#8217;s not too bad for a cheap amateur rig and no sound engineer. The centerpiece of this is my electric drumkit, which I got for Christmas last year. It&#8217;s fantastic. It has limitations, yes, but it lets me play and practice without fear of bothering the neighbors. And it does sound pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using GarageBand to lay down some instrument loops and then design a real drum part to go with them. Here is one recent thing I threw together over the weekend. Even a total moron like me can make sounds that resemble music with GarageBand. While I am NOT an Apple fanboy, I see a place for some of their technology. This is one such place. Sorry, Linux.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy! Heres &#8220;Vacuum (Part I)&#8221; from my little GarageBand personal project, &#8220;Tadpoles&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Vacuum-Part-I.mp3\">Vacuum (Part I)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh drums, you never steer me wrong. After years of neglect, I have started spending time during the week working on my drum technique. I&#8217;ve also met several people here in Dallas who seem interested in jamming. This has only made me more interested in having fun with drumming. I&#8217;ve missed drumming. It&#8217;s in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}