Music-full Weekend
I'm still not over my botched plans to go see Stewart Copeland this week, especially after a sneak peak at the set list. My husband has been consoling me with jokes about having to sit through the movie again (we own the DVD) and by reminding me that the next tour starts in May... and I'm a flag co-bearer for the first night. But I still have the tickets, if anyone is interested... they're in the centre section, third row.
Yeah, I know. Great frickin' seats. Happy birthday to me.
Anyway, I'm still checking out Notion and now I'm giving Sibelius the once-over. Any feedback, comments, and opinions on either are still very much welcomed. I have read that Andy Summers uses Sibelius, as well as some other really nifty people, and I'm looking forward to giving it a shot. I'm checking over both of the websites right now but Smike has already gone ahead and gotten the Sibelius for me.
The problem is that I'm a lunkhead when it comes to changing software. I have so many versions of Photoshop that I've lost probably half of my drive space to the programs themselves. But I keep going back to my earlier version, the one with all of my filters loaded into it, and I can't give up the latest version because I need to be able to open client files.
The way I write a song is complicated and painstaking. I don't use a keyboard or other musical instrument; I write what's in my head and the first time I hear it is when it's played through my computer. I enter each note on a staff, make chords and add the fun notation stuff, and then work work work on it until everything is perfect (or sometimes good enough.). It takes days. I'm very stubborn. I could probably cut back that time by using a keyboard instead of 'trying out' notes -- if you ever watched Copeland's The Rythmatist movie you'd have seen the easier way in action. Dude carries around a mini-keyboard with him. Why didn't I think of that?
Stubborn plus lunkhead equals luddite. I am the kind of person who loves immediate gratification, so this painstaking bullshit really isn't up my alley but I do it anyway. Why am I like this? What is so wrong with change? I think it's the idea that staring at something new, having to take large chunks of time to learn it without knowing if it will be what I want to use, is so overwhelming. If I can't sit down and make music with it right away, I don't want to deal with it. The stuff I'm using now, I know HOW to use it. I can sit down and I know what I'm doing. I want things to be easy... frustration is not a virtue.
I guess my birthday wish is to change that luddite equation and see the software changes as more of a "getting out of a rut" thing. Considering I already have the software and will be using it probably by the end of the day, that would be a wise thing to do.
God, I hate getting older.
