Tuesday, March 20, 2007

performance opportunity

Post 82 of 90.

I've been handed the task of organizing a hootenanny/jam/open mic-type thingy for the various musical talents at work. We have a lot of talented singer-songwriters.

I think I will be expected to contribute musically, so I'm pondering whether I can get up there and make a credible stab at playing some Guitar Craft repertoire in a "solo" format.

Without pitch correction software and unlimited takes on a multi-track, it's a bit too sketchy. I certainly have no idea how I could pull off any of the vocal-based I've written on multi-track and translate/transpose them onto an acoustic guitar. I would be back in the land of amateur strummery, something I've been avoiding like the plague for a long time, and to pick Crafty-style and sing I would need five hands and two brains to pull it off.

I may take in my electric guitar and amp to lay down some soundscape-y sorts of stuff for filler, then maybe play NST acoustic, perhaps with a little looping here and there to help me out. I don't have a Boomerang or Echoplex, though, so it would be the long delay on my Johnson amp with the infinite repeat feature, which is a bit primitive in comparison.

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