Another week, another song in the music section. I’m pleased with my overall progress, but I’m getting tired of my crappy keyboard. The other day I played on a real piano and the experience was completely different. Keys that have weight and are velocity sensitive transform the experience from button pushing to being truly expressive. Additionally, real pianos sound remarkably like… real pianos… instead of shitty sounding samples.
Last night I added a few drums to my 5 Notes song previously posted. As always, you can find it on the music page. I’m happy with the direction it’s going, though I’m surprised that it’s turning out to be a rockish song since you all know how much I love electronic music.
Some of you know, i’ve been trying to learn about various aspects of music for some time. An accomplished musician friend of mine has graciously volunteered to help me work through the creation of a song. This file is the result of his first instruction: to pick any five notes and write a simple looping melody using only those notes. Originally he only asked for the score, but I decided to use the tools at hand to learn a little bit about track automation. The result is a guitar-ish sounding riff that is run through a low-pass filter to change the dynamics. It needs work to smooth it out, but it’s something to post. Check it out over at my music page.
Another week and more practice of the piano brings me to the song Cafe Vienna. Find it on my [music page](http://baudburn.com/music).
In other news, this weekend is going to be totally insane. The 404 crew is having a reunion and everyone will be there. I look forward to hanging out with McCall, Kerry, Compton, Billy, Kaiser, and all the other people that I partied with back in the Nashville days. Cheers to you guys!
To top things off, Monday night I’ll be going to see my favorite Swedish melodic death metal band, In Flames. Their new album “Come Clarity” is great! I’ve been listening to it at work a lot. Hopefully my co-workers don’t notice/mind me sitting at my desk headbanging. They probably think I’m weird anyway.
Barbara and I thank you all for your thoughts. The ceremony was beautiful, I’m sure she would have been proud.
In other news, the next song recorded in my series is a well known pirate tune called “Blow the Man Down”. Find it on my music page [here](http://www.baudburn.com/music).
Those of you who I’ve spoken to recently probably know that I have decided to give up Capoeira for the foreseeable future. I have a lot of love and respect for the jogo de Capoeira, but I feel that it is time to pursue a passion I’ve had for years, but never acted upon… music. I’ve started a new page [here](http://baudburn.com/music) which should now be linked in the sidebar.
The goal is to post a new recording once a week of one thing I’ve accomplished that week. This will serve as an audible tracker of my progress as the list grows. More details of my plan are posted on the page itself.
This week’s recording is of a song called Lavender’s blue.
Dear sir,
Making dumb faces reminiscent of screech from [Saved by the Bell](http://hometown.aol.com/rt92283/screech.jpg) while on stage pretending to play the guitar isn’t very becoming of you. If you didn’t take the time to learn the music, please refrain from getting on the stage. We the discerning audience will notice that you have turned your volume down to zero and are trying (and failing) to follow the bass player’s lead. Your silly faces are not covering the fact that you are missing chord changes and only serve to distract us from the real talent.
Thank you,
The audience.
Went out to see [DJ Rap](http://www.propertalent.co.uk/default.asp) last night at the [lizard lounge](http://www.lizardlounge.com) in Dallas. The night was great, but the music was unfortunately, just so so.
The night started with dinner followed by coffee at [The Nodding Dog](http://www.noddingdogcoffee.com/), a very cool little coffee shop in Oak Cliff. I ordered the “red eye”, a huge cup of coffee and espresso (unfortunately referred to by the staff and labeled on the board as “expresso” (cringe)) mixed together. I started to feel high from the serious caffeine rush as B and I talked, laughed, shared stories of the week, and just enjoyed our time together.
Around 11, we headed out to the club. Parking was easy and the club was very cool. A converted theater, it had just the gothic feeling they were going for (the part was sponsored by sony for the new Underworld Evolution movie). The crowed was a healthy mix of everything from candy kids (complete with orange hair, and gas masks), to goths (with collars, black over coats, and nose-rings a plenty), to dancer girls with the panties with “all you can eat” printed on them, to the one thug in a white-T and white-sox cap trying to push up on a dancing girl who was having nothing to do with him.
The music was fun to dance to, for about an hour or so, but the problem with D&B is that there’s rarely anything memorable about it (It all sounds just like the title of this post), and I find it difficult to dance to. The problem: By the time DJ Rap came out, my attention span for D&B had already been exhausted. The only memorable song of the night was the D&B remix of a slayer song (from the Reign in Blood album) that she spun. For an instant, the dance club turned into a metal show.. which was pretty damn cool if you ask me..
So we took off a little early (around 2 am) and returned home feeling content and happy with life. We would have closed the place if she had spun a breaks set (check out her breaks album “learning curve”) instead of the D&B stuff. Glad I could come out for your show, DJ Rap, but let’s make a deal. I’ll definitely come see you next time you’re in town, but promise me you’ll spin breaks next time, OK? Sounds great! See you then. 
I want to start a one man industrial group known as Molecular Doom. I will be Kobi the Bringer of Molecular Doom or KBMD for short.
This thought brought to you in part through musings with Danielle. She requests that you go vote for her band [Atomic Blond](http://atomicblond.net). Do it now [here](http://www.battleofthebands.com/bb9/vote_form.php?band_id=11365). According to Danielle, they won’t spam you, so just go do it.