Hughie's PhD

2008 Music goals

The industry literature relating not only to music, but to all successful enterprises, recommends the establishment of clear, attainable goals. As such, I have set these goals for The Genre Benders for 2008: 1) Want to play at least 12...

What a day!

Yesterday was one of those truly developmental days. Many things progressed in my head and towards the completion of my thesis. 1) Gave the final presentation of the project for my classmates. This was not exactly satisfying because I (once...

A steep curve

Well, I've gotten the song fully recorded but I hate it. The intro is ... tentative ... and, as Angie said, "It doesn't grab me". This is, of course, pobably partly due to the pain in my shoulder whenever I...

Played on radio!

Got a call yesterday from Greg "Marto" Martin, former Wallaby and currently a member of "The Cage" brakfast show on Triple M Brisbane. A year ago I sent them copies of a song I wrote about the State of Origin...

More pain

Saturday night was the most painful gig ever - even more so than the one I did with 14 blisters on my hands after spending a day digging postholes. At least it was short and comparatively easy work - only...

Plenty to do

It's incredible how many companies have started up trying to sell music one way or another online! I've just added some more sites to the resources section and that's just from emptying my inbox (which is now down to 78)....

Moving along

As you might tell from recent postings, I spent lots of yesterday catching up on my mail and other sources. Consequently, the resources list on this blog has grown a lot and will continue to grow. Unfortunately, all I've done...

Refocusing

I had a lot of fun the studio on Monday and Tuesday and have gotten the percussion and Mandolin parts down as I want them. However, the guitar part continies to frustrate - I keep wanting to change it! Yesterday...

Recording productively

Yesterday was productive. I think I've bashed out the arrangement for "Long for the Day" (it has a mandolin part, now), and I'm still reworking the lyric. I also noodled out another melody idea in warm-up. Think this is a...

It's not so easy ...

Well, having spend Friday in a state of liberated bliss, I've not come back to earth. Reworking those lyrics is not so easy, as Jimmy Webb points out, and getting the playing up to speed after such a long time...

What a great day I've had

Wonderful! Got to play "Long for the Day" over and over until my wrist ached and my fingers were sore from playing. I haven't been able to do that with a clear conscience for a long time. In between bouts...

Guitar time!

Now that I've finished the Stage 2 stuff and sent it off, I'm going to spend a few days in the studio, reacquainting myself with my guitar and trying to arrange things and so on. I think the priority goes...

Fixing the basics

Having gotten through the methodologies assignment and then Easter, I thought I'd spend today cleaning up a few things and preparing for the next stage. That means adding a "robots, noindex" meta tag to this blog, which will help prevent...