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ambient

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  1. My BMus course and every course I’ve taught on have made a point of instilling in the students the requirement to have a portfolio of skills, and teaching those skills. On my BMus I learned to compose and arrange string, brass and small orchestra parts. We deconstructed and rearranged songs, changing their genre. We learned the ins and outs of producing using a DAW. Performance-wise the emphasis was on our own instrument. We also did vocals, percussion and piano. In the final year we could choose whether to do events management or study for a Rock School instructor qualification. So, a whole gamut of skills. The course I’m currently teaching on is very similar, though it also has a big element of live sound production, something my BMus didn’t have. Where I work has its own professional standard live music venue.
  2. I did my music degree in 2012/15. My main instrument was bass but I kind of got sidetracked and fell in love with the production/composition side of my course. So much so I did a masters followed by a PhD in composition. I now teach music production, composition and music business at Level 3 and at degree level. From September I’m going to be teaching some performance courses too. I absolutely love my job. I can only do it because I went to university. If I hadn’t gone then I probably wouldn’t have discovered my love for producing. Courses also equip you with a lot of so called ‘soft skills’ that employers really love. You make invaluable contacts, both through your tutors and fellow students.
  3. Maybe. But having a portfolio of music related skills will help even more.
  4. It’s got to be ‘who wants to live forever?’, even though I don’t like Queen.
  5. My laptop is set to private browsing and doesn't pick up cookies. I use Duckduckgo too which is supposed to block tracking. How would he circumvent that?
  6. This post cannot be displayed because it is in a forum which requires at least 1 post to view.
  7. Well, as long as people are foolish enough to pay for these scams, then artists or whoever is responsible for them will continue to run them.
  8. I've been trying to get a set of the Andrew Gouche strings. Maybe speak to Bass direct, and see if they get a set for you.
  9. Like new, used just once. Collection from Birmingham welcome.
  10. I'm saving up for an AG1000.
  11. I just came across this on Facebook. https://forum.mod.audio/t/introducing-portal/9329?fbclid=IwAR1PRnN76wn-VhPOs_QTs57y0-jCUs-RHzLOTbZ7vht_lA75gBRPCEdNkFs
  12. Apart from the Andrew Gouche video I posted a link to earlier, I can’t say I’ve ever really watched any of the SBL videos .The trailers I saw featuring Phil Mann gurning away put me right off.
  13. I’m a longtime admirer of Andrew’s playing. Here, he’s taking Chaka Khan’s two hits to another level completely. I guess he’s able to do this because: a) he has total mastery of his instrument and tremendous chops. and b) he’s so familiar and at ease with the harmony in the two songs. I have to learn these two songs for a new band I’m playing for. I play a 6 string bass, I’m definitely watching these for inspiration. He detunes his bass by a tone by the way. I have a transcription of these two tunes from a Chaka Khan concert.
  14. Ah! You've found it. Wonderful. I was wondering where I’d lost it.
  15. Solo 6 string bass tuned C F Eb Bb GC. My bass is a Wood n Tronics Chronos 6. Reverb from a Mod Devices Dwarf. Recorded in one take this afternoon. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvX8pnCtxf-/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
  16. I lecture in music production in my day job. I often bring up Prince’s recordings to my students. There's never anything there that shouldn't be there. Slightly off-topic. Check out Susan Roger’s book ‘This Is What It Sounds Like’. She was Prince’s staff engineer for some of his greatest recordings.
  17. Intel. This gives more information. https://support.apple.com/kb/SP649?locale=en_GB
  18. Bought new a couple of years ago during my foray into double bass playing. I doubt it was used for more than 30 minutes. I found its inordinately loud click annoying and reverted back to using the metronome app on my iPhone.
  19. I lecture in music production in a music college. A colleague of mine has exactly the same model from the same year that he uses every day, for work and music production. I think 2012 was a particularly good year for MacBooks. The only reason I switched is that I travel to work by bus and train, and wanted something lighter. I did consider keeping this one as a spare or for live work. It seems a bit daft to just keep it sitting in a cupboard unused though.
  20. I’ve taken screenshots for you. I believe on this model you can increase the RAM. To be honest, I’ve never felt the need to. Some of my PhD work was running some pretty large Logic Pro projects with 60 or 70 tracks, it never missed a beat.
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