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Ugh! Videos. Just how many takes does it take?????

80? 90? More? I can’t be the only one…. Am I? Try to recored a simple rough vid of a song. Only to end up messing up the playing. Or words. How do you mess up the words to your own song? Apparently I’m good at that. Stopping and saying #@$% might be funny to watch. But after seven or eight times it get’s kind of boring. End up with about as much recording time of me saying #$%# as I do the entire song. Maybe I should just sing #@$%, Then when I mess that up I'll have to think of something else to yell out. I will get this song videoed and uploaded today. I have about seven hours of good sunlight left. And a 32gig card in my camera. Might be enough.

So all you video creators. How do you do your vids? One take and go? Take many and choose the best? Recored audio and video separately then edit them together? I can’t be the only one who can spend four hours trying to record a 3 minute song.

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Permalink Reply by JL on June 27, 2016 at 1:40am

Would you stop and start over 7 or 8 times on stage?

If you make a mistake, keep going, finish out the song. You will perform the way you practice, you should practice the way you will perform.

90% of the audience won't catch the mistake

9% will catch what they believe to be an artistic choice/inflection/jazz-note/ad-lib/embellishment

the remaining 1% is you and your significant other who's heard it practiced 127 times and isn't paying enough attention to catch it.

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on June 27, 2016 at 11:32am

Thanks for the encouragement and ideas. The song is practically brand new. Like hours old when I thought it would be fun to try to get a rough draft up. So it wasn't something that i had down to begin with. I planned on uploading that one. Then, once finished, upload the completed song. I've already added a bridge. And now changing that for the third time. LOL Think I'll stick to completed songs. That way I wont be in the middle of it. Then start thinking, 'this might work better". Just to flub up what i was trying to do from the start.

I do plan on getting at least one video up each week from now on. I have finished songs. I think I'll stick with those first.

Your right JL. No way would you start and stop on stage. Well, not quite. It's happened. On stage horror stories. Gotta love em. I once started a song in the wrong key. It was one of those songs where the singer starts first. I didn't realize I was in the wrong key until the bass player kicked in. Everybody was staring at me. All my bend members. The packed crowd in the front of us. Funny, I usually don't mind being the center of attention.

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Permalink Reply by JL on June 27, 2016 at 11:38pm

Been there, Done that.

Came in with my bass line in the wrong key. The guitar player looked at me like I had two heads. LOL. He kept playing and I just dropped out and at the top of the next line came back in in the correct key.

Another time, I had a bass solo in the middle of the intro, and my tuner pedal was still engaged, no sound, Whoops! that time we did stop and restart.