80? 90? More? I can’t be the only one…. Am I? Try to recored a simple rough vid of a song. Only to end up messing up the playing. Or words. How do you mess up the words to your own song? Apparently I’m good at that. Stopping and saying #@$% might be funny to watch. But after seven or eight times it get’s kind of boring. End up with about as much recording time of me saying #$%# as I do the entire song. Maybe I should just sing #@$%, Then when I mess that up I'll have to think of something else to yell out. I will get this song videoed and uploaded today. I have about seven hours of good sunlight left. And a 32gig card in my camera. Might be enough.
So all you video creators. How do you do your vids? One take and go? Take many and choose the best? Recored audio and video separately then edit them together? I can’t be the only one who can spend four hours trying to record a 3 minute song.
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Thanks for the encouragement and ideas. The song is practically brand new. Like hours old when I thought it would be fun to try to get a rough draft up. So it wasn't something that i had down to begin with. I planned on uploading that one. Then, once finished, upload the completed song. I've already added a bridge. And now changing that for the third time. LOL Think I'll stick to completed songs. That way I wont be in the middle of it. Then start thinking, 'this might work better". Just to flub up what i was trying to do from the start.
I do plan on getting at least one video up each week from now on. I have finished songs. I think I'll stick with those first.
Your right JL. No way would you start and stop on stage. Well, not quite. It's happened. On stage horror stories. Gotta love em. I once started a song in the wrong key. It was one of those songs where the singer starts first. I didn't realize I was in the wrong key until the bass player kicked in. Everybody was staring at me. All my bend members. The packed crowd in the front of us. Funny, I usually don't mind being the center of attention.
Been there, Done that.
Came in with my bass line in the wrong key. The guitar player looked at me like I had two heads. LOL. He kept playing and I just dropped out and at the top of the next line came back in in the correct key.
Another time, I had a bass solo in the middle of the intro, and my tuner pedal was still engaged, no sound, Whoops! that time we did stop and restart.
Would you stop and start over 7 or 8 times on stage?
If you make a mistake, keep going, finish out the song. You will perform the way you practice, you should practice the way you will perform.
90% of the audience won't catch the mistake
9% will catch what they believe to be an artistic choice/inflection/jazz-note/ad-lib/embellishment
the remaining 1% is you and your significant other who's heard it practiced 127 times and isn't paying enough attention to catch it.
Cheers Taff
If I don't get it down after about the 5th take I stop trying for a bit and come back at it fresh. There have been a few that took me around 12 takes maybe more like Space Oddity for my David Bowie tribute. I've talked about this before that I often hit the record button when I'm practicing a song and that way can self critique what I'm doing. It also becomes no big deal when you want to do one for real since you get very comfortable with having that red light come on. Also, perfection is an elusive goal and I'm usually real happy if I can simply stand to listen to the end result.
Funny thing happened when I sat down with a three string guitar this morning. Two new song ideas came out of nowhere. : ) I take a vid of the original raw idea. A separate vid for every change I make to that idea. Then a vid or two of lyric or melody ideas for that one song. I can end up with ten or more vids for one unfinished song. I have well over 200 three to five minute vids of ideas. That's on this computer. My old mac, it's down but i'm getting it fixed, has hundreds more.
I do my vids by practicing the song for at least a week, couple hours a day, and several on Saturday, before recording. Then, I go sit in front of the camera, turned off, and do it a coupla more times. After that, I record, usually once, but never more than thrice.
Warts and all is my motto.
Finally found Shane's video that inspired me.
https://youtu.be/Glm21RD6Frw?list=PLpET_ZZI7rmROAInFkbD9szyuIXn2zM-T
going to post this link on all three of the youtube vids.
Thanks folks!
Alight! I'm cheating. I'm getting a vid uploaded to Youtube now. Was to big for the site. It's one of three diddleys I came up with using Shane Speal's 1, double fifths tuning. Or 1,5,9. It's not me singing. But I still screwed up enough to have to edit it. Left one screwup in it.
https://youtu.be/6KlTXsQEdFA
mighty fine ;-)
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