Audites and Truefire

I returned from three weeks working in Qatar ready to get back into some music. This year has been so hectic, there's been very little time since about April to do anything. I had a week and I half before my last foreign trip and put into place some ideas I had about re-integrating the Beatstep Pro back into the rig, and using ADAT to bring my second Saffire Pro 40 back into the rig. I'm recording everything at 96KHz now so theres only four channels of ADAT, but that's enough to have the Nord Drum 3P and the Roland JDXi. 

Audites

I want to have a break from songwriting in the conventional sense and flex my instrumental muscles again. Doing licensed royalty free music is something I've thought about doing on and off for over a decade and it's perfect excuse to stretch out musically without having to come up with a song. As a way of getting the ball rolling, I've come up with this idea of making Audites - thats the name I'm giving to 2-3 minute long instrumental pieces of music I'm creating just based on a simple idea I might have at any time, be that something on guitar, synth, bass or a drum beat. The whole rig has been set up for immediate recording, and there's always a Reason template iteration I have to facilitate that. Before I went away I did a quick one as a test.

Truefire

I was trying to decide on another Truefire course to do, and had seen a great sounding one on sort of Blues Rock Grooves. However, I've not done any studying for a couple of years and I was a little worried I might find it a bit tough from a standing start. Another one caught my eye on Rhythm Fills which also seemed interesting. The price of doing two was about £60, but for a year of all access it was about £84, so I've just gone ahead and done that.

Have to hand it to Truefire, the first lesson on Rhythm Fills gave me some ideas straight away and I recorded a quick Audite inspired by it! I just came up with a few riffs based on what I'd learned, programmed a simple beat on the Beatstep Pro linked to the Nord Drum, played along and put a simple bassline on afterwards. Bosh, it was done.

I've got a relatively quiet couple of weeks, so I'll aim to do an hour a day on it, like I did back in lockdown.