Record your playing daily!

Hi guys:)

Just want to share with you one perfect practice: daily recording!
As for me, it's a very powerful practice, no matter what you record (full song, exercise, or even one note with vibrato). It educates a discipline and concentration while playing, and you also control some aspects of your playing that could not be controlled with metronome.

Does anybody practice it?
Let's share tips!

i think a good tip when you are first starting out is to find something that is fun to do, for me it was the blue's scales which i would jam away for hours on end. it might not be much good for learning properly, but its a good start and helps you get a good feel of the guitar and of course getting your hands a bit stronger for all those tricky things ive yet to learn. so when youve done learning the c major and all that do ra mi stuff, or doing the spider for a bit, you can go and jam a few blue improvs just to break the monotony of that theory stuff.
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What do you use to record?

Originally Posted by: hunter1801What do you use to record?

Reaper v3.72. Just add track (Ctrl+T) and start record (Ctr+R). Very simple and cool. Plus you can turn on metronome, designate sound processing with your favorite VSTi....:) I'm not guru about Reaper yet but this pro seems to be very flexible, convenient and powerful.

Originally Posted by: wingman23i think a good tip when you are first starting out is to find something that is fun to do, for me it was the blue's scales which i would jam away for hours on end. it might not be much good for learning properly, but its a good start and helps you get a good feel of the guitar and of course getting your hands a bit stronger for all those tricky things ive yet to learn. so when youve done learning the c major and all that do ra mi stuff, or doing the spider for a bit, you can go and jam a few blue improvs just to break the monotony of that theory stuff.
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You're right, our practice sessions definitely must be a combination of discipline AND fun! If one of them becomes heavily dominate, the effectiveness of practicing reduces greatly...

So, have DISCIPLINE+FUN at the same time;)

I tend to drop my practice every now and then and just play whatever I want! As long as I'm playing, I count it in as practice. Shame on me...

Originally Posted by: Paul MoliukovReaper v3.72. Just add track (Ctrl+T) and start record (Ctr+R). Very simple and cool. Plus you can turn on metronome, designate sound processing with your favorite VSTi....:) I'm not guru about Reaper yet but this pro seems to be very flexible, convenient and powerful.

That's just the software though. How do you get your guitar to actually record? Has to be plugged into something.

if you look at the back of your computer, you should see a light blue colored hole which is your stereo line in (dont plug it into the red one,as this is the microphone hole and its not built to take such high signals so will be all distorted).
Although this is a mini plug you can get a small adapter that fits at the end of your guitar lead that makes it fit into this hole I got mine from Tesco's for a couple of quid .. then go to your sound properties, volume control then options.properties again and make sure you are recording from the stereo line in....
then it all depends what software you are using, i just use audacity because my amp lets me plug my iPod into it, and then both the backing track and guitar goes through as one signal and just records on audacity, but im sure there is proper software out there that does it better, but that's the basic principle anyway...

Didn't know I could just buy an adaptor to just plug directly into the computer.

The negatives that pop into my head first are that you are pretty much just running off your motherboards sound card (unless you have a separate sound card), which isn't as good as you'd want for recording stuff. So I was thinking more along the lines of getting an actual interface to plug into.

Ya pluging directly in the computer (unless you got a very good soundcard on it) dosnt sound so good. I personally use an external sound card that I can plug in mic's and guitar cables. Then it goes in the computer with a usb cable.

You can get decent soundcards for 200$ Whats good about that is that you can bring that sound card anywhere with you and plug and record. Not everyone has a good soundcard on there computers :)

Originally Posted by: hunter1801Didn't know I could just buy an adaptor to just plug directly into the computer.

The negatives that pop into my head first are that you are pretty much just running off your motherboards sound card (unless you have a separate sound card), which isn't as good as you'd want for recording stuff. So I was thinking more along the lines of getting an actual interface to plug into.

well there are lots of ways you can do it, but if you have a fairly decent sound card, i have the creative soundblaster x-fi titanium 24 bit, nothing that fancy and i use this sort of adapter.

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/19516070/Cable-Tex-6-35-1-4-Stereo-socket-To-3-5-Stereo-Jack-Adaptor/Product.html?_%24ja=tsid:11518|cat:19516070|prd:19516070

im sure though if you want studio sort of quality its probably a lot more more complicated than this cheap and cheerful way

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Originally Posted by: hunter1801That's just the software though. How do you get your guitar to actually record? Has to be plugged into something.

No combos, no microphones, no external sound effects/sound cards:) I use Guitar Rig software for all sound processing. Plug my bass directly into computer's sound card ("Soundblaster Live!").
It's not totally professional but after all the only goal of my daily records is simply control of my playing...
About hardware, I like Line 6 (GX POD STUDIO, UX1 POD STUDIO, UX2 POD STUDIO) audio interfaces. Rather cheap, convenient in using, has pretty cool models of amps/effects and NO DELAY while real-time playing (which is major problem for softs like Guitar Rig). Probably I'll buy such device for professional recordings.

Originally Posted by: Paul Moliukov
Does anybody practice it?
Let's share tips!

I record ideas, but yeah, it is a good idea to do it. People have recomended it to me cause you can concentrate in what you are listening rather than playing and listening.

What soft do you people use to record?

I have a question ... and I KNOW IT IS MORE DIFFICULT ... How can I, after many years of just being high and listening...learn to record my own guitar and voice with { A VERY SMALL BUDGET } and lots of time, I think I will die soon as my new doctor has told me I may only have a year to live.

I would like to RECORD my own music/singing... I have a computer, amp(ROLAND micro cube...10 watt ) and Squier STRAT , A e-machine(Windows 7 ) ...auto every damn thing... Yet, I need to record.

Can you tell me of something that would work ??

P.S. I am sober now some thirty years ( whatever...)

Go to the record program on your e-machine.. If you have a mike plug it up and click on record.. It nothing fancy but you can at least get an idea of you progressing..

Here's a start link..
http://www.ehow.com/how_6117841_use-microphone-machine.html