James,
I certainly don't expect to ever be able to play Jimi Hendrix style,or bottleneck,flamenco or anything even remotely close to this,much less anything that's considered "seasoned"...but I don't think spending $300 or $400 on a guitar,would be a total waste.
All you folks who are fluent guitar players,also fiddle around with keyboards and/or midi controllers & software instruments for accompaniment purposes and I would never tell anyone that their money spent on these items,are a total waste,because they're in fact-not,a waste at all.
I would just like to expand myself and be more flexible as a musician,just as you all have done.Furthermore,I never expected to produce professional sounding samples either,as I am not a "seasoned" sample artist either....I just make do with what I picked up on my own accord,as I have only done some basic sampling in the past 3 or 4 years.
I appreciate that you are trying to save me some coin and believe me,I never intend on going crazy and spending thousands on a custom Gibson Les Paul...not ever...not in this lifetime anyway.
Feel free to lay any advice on me that you want & I will be grateful,but just know that I do not want a guitar that you would find at a Wal-Mart.
About 14 years ago,I bought a second hand,rebuilt guitar from a friend for $50-which seemed like a suitable starting point,but it was noisy,rattly lemon that would not hold it's tuning-I just want to avoid that.
A close friend of mine who I grew up with-who now resides in Florida,had given me some pointers on which guitars had good pick-ups(can't recall which ones now),but regardless of my novice status of playing,I don't see the point-in any situation,to buy a guitar with piss poor pick ups in them,a flimsy neck or bridge,or a body that's going to warp if I fart within the vicinity of it.
So yes-in a word,I wish to pursue the idea of buying a guitar,but as I said in the beginning of this thread,it's a long term goal,so I will not even be ready to buy one,until May of next year.
As for the sampling project..well,there's really not too much required on you're part,meaning that you could play single single notes,strums,riffs or pretty much anything,because all of the details and refinements are done in the sampling process............
....such as changing the duration,pitch,attack,timbre or what have you,as there are many ways to manipulate an external sound source,once it's been recorded into the flash ram memory.
The way that I constructed my version of Wyatt's tune,is that I began with editing Wyatt's audio files in Audacity,by trimming down a series of designated points in a track and then burning these series of segments onto CD..Then while the CD was in play while hooked up to my audio inputs of my keyboard,I depressed the sample record button at the desired moment and each sample is assigned to an individual note on the keyboard.
Further trimming refinements are also possible within the keyboard's editing mode and once all the sampling is completed,all of the samples can be assigned as just another program patch in the keyboard and these samples can be played like any other instrument in the keyboard's sound set.
So really-all that's required on your part,is to play what leaps to mind and just go crazy,put it into an audio file & send it to me, and I'll take it from there(as I now think that asking anyone to do something specific,is just going to make things complicated),as I really don't have a precise game plan myself.
Anything that you,or anyone else comes up with,will be very useful to me,believe me.
There's really no rush at all for this project,so whenever you have the time,is perfectly fine.
Thanks,
-Thom
