Ray Bohlken wrote:Pickin Palmer wrote: The only reason I would suggest anybody spend MORE money on the product is if you play "out" with it. Or, record yourself - and, what's the sense of that if you don't play out and need CDs to sell at your gigs?
I have a high school buddy that I get together with once a month or so and we play songs we learned from back then...Ventures, Duane Eddy, String-Alongs, and groups like that, plus some standards. Instrumental songs from my time back there. I make up the BIAB files so that we can play with a "full band" and it makes it more fun when we play. I usually make him a CD of the songs we mess with so he can take it home and play along with that. I have also been asked by a few friends if I had ever made a CD of my playing, so I made one and inflicted it on...er gave it to them. It was fun to do that. I was just curious if anyone had used the REAL BAND stuff and if is was easy to incorporate it.
Ray
My ambitions are humble. I'd like to make a decent CD to hand out at my church. Perhaps mostly gospel or Christmas tunes, or maybe a combo. Anyway, I would hope that might get me started (should the good LORD show me favor) at getting into the circuit of playing at houses of worship.
I certainly don't ever expect to be famous, because my playing is "somewhere in the middle," but I work hard at improving every day. Maybe some day, as I'm practicing I'll suddenly take a jump or even a quantum leap into higher skill level somewhere up in the stratosphere where the best guys (like Richard!) play. But I'm not holding my breath. Practice is the most practical and real thing I know.
I've arranged a LOT of old gospel standards for my own ears, (Christmas tunes, too,) not to mention that I can play a lot of really pretty classical pieces, and maybe, just maybe the ears of others in God's house would get a blessing out of my playing. If that is how He would choose to use me, I'm a willing vessel.
BIAB would sure it be an indispensable help. (From everything I've learned from you guys.)