Poet | Playwright | Musician | Podcast Host | Actually Autistic | ADHD
United Kingdom
Joined November 2007
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I’m currently working on a monologue for a theatre production and I’m also working on a novel.
The common thread for me? Constantly figuring out how to “show” and not “tell”.
As I continue (re)watching Rocky I, I’m picking up on gems from Sylvester Stallone’s screenplay.
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In under 30 seconds, with just one little display of behaviour you get a huge insight into his character and it sets you up to wanna root for him beyond him being the “underdog” against Apollo Creed later.
Currently (re)watching Rocky, the first one and in the first 10 minutes what do I hear playing in Rocky’s apartment when he comes home from a flight?
Summer Madness by Kool and the Gang!
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Kanye West advice on haters will change your life.
*I keep a folder of his best lines ever.
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AI could never.
Charlie Hunter playing D'Angelo's "The Root," wielding a
a custom 8-string bass/guitar combo – the upper 3 strings are bass and the bottom 5 guitar – allowing Hunter to play both parts simultaneously.
He co-wrote it with D’Angelo after jamming together to Jimi Hendrix songs during the “Voodoo” sessions at Electric Lady Studios.
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And this is done. Without. Paper.
When we talk about genius writing. This is what we are talking about.
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This is crazy hearing the isolated guitar work that Raphael Saadiq and Spanky did on D’Angelo’s Untitled. Spanky doing his drippings with Saadiq dropping two layers of dirty guitars. Sounds like one was a sketch— him figuring it out and then the 2nd was him locking it in.
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Charlie Hunter playing D'Angelo's "The Root," wielding a
a custom 8-string bass/guitar combo – the upper 3 strings are bass and the bottom 5 guitar – allowing Hunter to play both parts simultaneously.
He co-wrote it with D’Angelo after jamming together to Jimi Hendrix songs during the “Voodoo” sessions at Electric Lady Studios.
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Chopping drum-breaks 101: Beat-making has gone so far and is so advanced that sometimes we forgot to cover the fundamentals. This is a quick lesson in the fundamentals of chopping up a drum break to get different arrangements of it without chopping up each individual note and programming them individually. I sometimes use this technique when I feel like chopping a drumbreak too much will cause it to loose it's human feel. When you do it this way, using longer pieces, the break keeps it's fluidity and human feel in a way that chopping it into individual drum hits doesn't, in my opinion. I tried to do this slow enough on the MPC Sample that it can be followed by people who are newer or just curious about making beats. Hope this inspires somebody. Let me know if y'all dig it.
p.s. Shout out to my guy @robviktum for the drums from his new Heavy Artillery drum pack. Go support him and pick it up!
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