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I was playing around with a kind of scratching sound on the guitar and decided to experiment with some other effects. By effects I do not mean anything electronic. I mean doing gimmicky things on the guitar itself, likes this kind of scratch, some popping (where I place a thumb under a guitar string, pull it up and let it snap back to the fretboard) and a few other things.

Effects, gimmicks and tricks do not make a song, but they can be tools to help the creative process. My technical abilities continue to grow, but creativity oftens only thrives when something fresh is done or a new approach is taken. This episode takes one listen at approachingly freshly using what I am Pop, Scratch and Ham.

In the second clip the effects I use include slapping (which I do with my thumb) slap harmonics and then a combination of these things as well.

There are two clips: the first is called "Pop and Scratch", and the second "Ham is OK" (see if you can figure out why.)

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A quick study on a lazy Sunday afternoon. I pick two chords to start and then simply record what happens afterwards directly to the hard disk of my Dell Precision.

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I began this bit with a soft guitar piece and let it flow from there. The lyrics were all on the fly made up as I went along. This was a kind of a tool to help with the lyrical creativity.

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This is a long format episode. I recorded what I was doing over about 15 minutes without pause. In this episode I give commentary during the music as there a bits to talk about.

Amongst other things I talk about the concept of having a musical library, and as always the importance of recording / capturing what you do so that you can later access it and use it.

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Sorry that it has taken so long since the last post. It is not for lack of music, but for lack of time to create the cast from the raw data.

This episode is one where I am intentionally raw, also vocally. I am actually trying to make my material rougher for the cast so that we continually get at the main point, that music starts out rough before it ever gets to its polished presentable format.

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This cast episode happened as an aside. I was playing the guitar and scanning the computer for messages and came upon some twitter notes, and I started to sing and play making up lyrics as I went. It is an exercise I try to do sometimes to see if I can do it, but I almost never actually record it as by the time I notice it is happening it is already gone. This time I had the Palm Tungsten running and was able to capture it.

The focus of this episode is on the creation of lyrics. My main point here is to allow yourself to be truly silly and to simply let flow what flows. You can always edit later, but you can only edit what already exists. So enjoy this very silly TwitTune. And for those who may care to know, my twitter ID is nlnnet

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