I thought I'd start this thread as a bit of therapy for us all about our recording woes (or attempts to record, or even dreams of recording a video).
sandysue wrote:
wrsomers wrote:Hi Bill
I've learned Fire and Rain now, and I play it everyday. I really love that song. I've been trying really hard to video myself playing and singing it, so that I can post it on TG but I keep making a mistake or two just when I think I'm on the home stretch. After about the 100th take my poor left hand starts wearing out and I have to go put my guitar down for a while. But one of these days soon I'm gonna get a decent take and then I will post it.
Sandy
Sandy - I feel your pain about recording jitters. I've more than once gotten almost through a recording only to mess up in the last measures. I can give you a tip about that: Don't worry about making mistakes, it happens to EVERYONE. Rev. Blind Gary Davis said if you worry about making mistakes you are doomed to fail. In other words, stay in the moment; almost always we make mistakes because the worry of failure or the excitement of completing something successfully takes us out of the moment and we start thinking ahead (or looking back to a tiny mistake we just made). That's when we mess it up. I'm a golfer and have had that happen to me many times...I reach the 16th, 17th or 18th hole at or near par and I start thinking about shooting a career round, then boom, it all falls apart. Same thing for music. Hope this helps.
Bill
A couple of days go I had a similar but different and very deflating experience.
"Recording sucks when" you finally do a really good take, the sounds quality is great in garage band; and then you go to review the video only to find that you didn't press 'record' this time.
Ahhhh!!!! :S :blink: :woohoo:
So complete the phrase "Recording sucks when..."
I'm sure there are a million of them.
Michele