All you have to do is Believe on New Set Gig Day
It’s the day, and this morning I planned an hour jam, which I already did earlier this week a few times. If you’ve been following along, and clearly everyone’s been following along, I was trying to figure out whether I was gonna do it standalone or with the computer
So, for the first time in years, my computer actually crashed. I think I know what was causing it, but not the computer--Ableton crashed, so I’ve loaded everything into the Push 3. Seems to be working.
Did 45 minutes. It was going great, so we’re all packed up and ready to go.
I was gonna do another practice before I left the house, but that’s too much-- am was good. The advantage of the computer is that I can see everything and have a bird’s-eye view and knew what the keys were, but I can’t really, I don’t know how to look at that the right way on the Push. I’ve got it in the section headers, and that’s one thing too many (to vigor out how to view them on the fly). You don’t wanna be figuring out day of and then use your new skill on stage, cause I’m only going try to do about 20% of what I can do.
Make very slow movements, JD.
But the offshoot of that is that I have to stay away from my lead track because now I’m not sure if the keys I wrote down are correct. I was gonna check it this morning, but I had my time to rehearse and did that, so I kind of go into this not having the leads totally nailed down, which is good. I can concentrate on the bass track and the Minitaur track and the keys track, which is probably enough anyway, and sprinkle in those little leads and plan sometimes, but I mean, in this kind of situation, you have to go with it. A few sour notes ain’t gonna kill nobody, so I can really try some stuff.
I grabbed a couple shakers this morning and may try that, so I’ll ask for a microphone.
There’s 80% enough practice and a bunch of stuff that could go wrong, and my phone or my iPad for backup-- I can just DJ through my little L-6 mixer, so I’m backed up two or three different ways. I can always use my phone. I can always use the iPad, which I’m gonna throw in the backpack, so failsafes are in.
I don’t think anything’s gonna go wrong. It’s all been checked and rechecked, and I feel like it’s gonna be a good gig.
Going with confidence, relying on what I know. I’m really happy with the set and what I can do with it. Very simple, very chill, and I’m gonna remember to make very slow changes.
I’ve got 45 minutes. My guess is I’ll get pushed one way or the other and squeezed down to 30 or 25. That’s never not happened to me for SXSW.
Preshow walk with Buck, the wonder mutt, and I’m gonna fucking nail it.