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I started doing this when I was a performing musician and found it was the best way to fix technique, but it is super helpful generally for fixing whatever material you have to present in front of people: presentations, speeches, intro statements, things like that. Set up your phone for video or just audio, do your thing, watch it back, note every time you look or sound insane, fix it, film it over again. It’s based on the heuristic that our critical mechanism is by nature more developed than our creative mechanism, so it is much easier to respond to an existing thing than to conjure something out of nothing inside your mind. I know it is cringe, but avoid at your own social peril.
Feb 5, 2024
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plug all your friends' instruments/mics into a mixer and then plug the output of that mixer into an audio interface hooked up to a computer to record it into a DAW. or just plop a handheld recorder in the middle of the room and let it ride. or just huddle really close around someone's phone recording on voice memos. depends how much gear you have. as far as rules, i'd say treat it like improv theater/comedy. don't say no to any idea, just "yes, and-"
Feb 5, 2025
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just a simple phone recording can be a good start. the most important thing is to have a good song and the best songs can be conveyed with a guitar/piano and vocals. The rest is just ear candy
Apr 24, 2024
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Recently I’ve been passing my time in traffic by freestyling entire songs off the top of my head. I’ve been recording them too but I’m being a pussy and not posting them. But theyre pretty damn funny. Not because they’re comedic. But because I put my entire heart and soul into every single song I record. In my car. In traffic.
If you like karaoke, try this out. Just let your soul take over the song. It doesn’t have to be good. Just don’t stop singing when u stumble. It will also help ur quick thinking skills in the real world. I am 25% thinking quicker. Maybe 26%
May 9, 2024
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Here is a piece that I am livestreaming indefinitely on youtube. It’s footage from basically everywhere I’ve been in the past 3 years or so. All over America. YouTube is really a blessing; even if it was _just_ a storage platform for video it would be above and beyond anything else. I really recommend finding ways to make stuff for youtube.
Feb 10, 2024
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“The best thing you can be in life is tipsy. There’s four things you can be in life: sober, tipsy, drunk, hung over. Tipsy’s the only one out of the four where you don’t cry during it.”
– James Acaster
Feb 2, 2024
TooGoodToGo is an app that connects you to local businesses to buy unsold food for cheap. It’s especially good in NYC.
May 4, 2024