Difficult backgrounds aside, I love to make music. I have learned to find my way around the diatonic mouth harp, guitar, drums, and a bit of piano and bass guitar. I have my own studio, which is just a sound treated bedroom reserved for music recordings.
I had problems with my hearing, but it seems to work fine again. The last track I recorded is an improvised Jazz drum solo. The panning and such isn’t exactly as I want it to be. I miscorrected the recording setup.
People broke into and entered my apartment. They tuned down the snare drum, bass drum, and kicked a dent in the bass bottom drumhead. They also changed the place of the dampening stickers. I now just removed them. My neighbors did it, so no more volume dampening for them.
It turns out to be so that they switched the cables of two microphones in the mixer. I have an X-Y-Z setup and it destroyed the mix. The result is that you don’t have a proper representation of the setup of my drumset anymore.
The hi-hat is barely audible when closed by foot. The bass drum also still has a dull thump. I hadn’t tuned it up yet. Normally it has a really nice tone.
The drum solo is still one that I’m pretty happy with.
My body replaced some intended drum rolls with what I would find an interesting find if someone else had done it, so that’s pretty cool. It’s also really annoying that I didn’t drum the roll that I intended to.
The last free track I’ll record will be Blango. I now have my setup proper. With good hearing and everything else in place, it shouldn’t be too difficult.
After that I’ll get to work on an album or two, that I’ll just record under my own name and not a bandname. It’s really easy to come up with a wrong bandname. As such…
Learning tracks:
- Emile M. Hobo, “A Bit of Jazz” (Jazz drumsolo) - March 10th, 2023. [mp3]
- Emile M. Hobo, “Blango” (experimental blues) - March 1st, 2021 (last update). [removed]
- Emile M. Hobo, “Funk ass mother fucker” (hip-hop) - July 18th, 2020. [mp3]
Books:
- Æmilius, “Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Rediscovered” - July 31st, 2020. [Updating and republishing 2nd edition]
Articles and reference charts:
- Emile M. Hobo, “A Simple Musical Scales Parsing Algorithm” - February 23rd, 2022. [Article]
- Emile M. Hobo, “An Exploration of Perfect Pitch and Phonetics” - October 14th, 2020. [Article]
- Emile M. Hobo, “Intervals, Their Inversion, and Consonance” - September 15th, 2020. [Article]
- Emile M. Hobo, “Shaping Your Voice” - December 10th, 2019. [Article]
- Emile M. Hobo, “Music and Relative Emphasis” - December 2nd, 2019. [Article]
- Emile M. Hobo, “Scales, Chords, and Patterns on the Guitar” - September 8th, 2019. [Article]
- Emile M. Hobo, “Finding Scales on the Fly on the Chromatic Harmonica” - September 3rd, 2019. [Article]
- Emile M. Hobo, “The Massage - A Quick Note On Piano Technique” - June 30th, 2019. [Article]
- Emile M. Hobo, “Scales for the Diatonic Harmonica in all Positions” - May 28th, 2019. [A4]
- Emile M. Hobo, “Scales for the Chromatic Harmonica in all Keys” - May 26th, 2019. [A4]
- Emile M. Hobo, “Positions on the Diatonic Mouth Harp” - May 23rd, 2019. [Article]
- Emile M. Hobo, “Knowing Your Mouth Harp Exercises” - July 15th, 2019. [Article]
- Emile M. Hobo, “Scales and Chords … in all keys” - April 26th, 2019. [A4]
- Emile M. Hobo, “Harmonica Reference Charts : Chromatic and diatonic harmonicas” - April 25th, 2019; updated May 1st, 2019. [A4]
- Emile M. Hobo, “Analyzing the Chromatic Harmonica Pitch Set” - April 23rd, 2019. [Article]