bayoubill
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How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
I have vocal exercises to sing along with as warm-ups ( i need all the help i can get)
ii-V altered and unaltered for scale arp phrasing etc. ( I re-record each day in different keys to explore positions and such)
Work on transcribing solos by loops
Sonar is a dream come true when it comes to practicing your instrument!!!!
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Russell.Whaley
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Re:How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
2011/06/07 13:02:23
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Incredible idea - never heard of it before, but it makes perfect sense - and I'll keep this in my recommendation file.
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Re:How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
2011/06/07 13:06:00
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bayoubill
I have vocal exercises to sing along with as warm-ups ( i need all the help i can get)
ii-V altered and unaltered for scale arp phrasing etc. ( I re-record each day in different keys to explore positions and such)
Work on transcribing solos by loops
Sonar is a dream come true when it comes to practicing your instrument!!!!
Indeed then, there's strict tempo and timing. Not that I practice anymore, but I could... 
"We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves" - Banksy
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bayoubill
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Re:How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
2011/06/07 13:38:56
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Another useful thing for me is to record a chord sequence, solo, etc. from something I want to learn and then use my amp to record on a track under it and tweak my sound to to get as close to the parts I want to sound like. Till they sound the same. It made a big difference when doing Skynard /Santana and such "Live" at the gigs. The list keeps building on useful things besides recording.
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bapu
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Re:How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
2011/06/07 14:14:03
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I'd practice if I thought it would do any good. 
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bayoubill
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Re:How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
2011/06/07 14:49:00
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bayoubill
I try not to think about that ..... good may be out of the question.. now i'm depressed ....
Just right to try out some Leonard Cohen licks then?
"We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves" - Banksy
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Re:How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
2011/06/07 15:23:00
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Re:How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
2011/06/07 15:29:15
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I do that too. I have a project with a dozen vocal excercises (MIDI) running into a piano synth.
I have 2 usual options.
1. This is the basic setup with MIDI and 1 piano synth. this is good for singing the pre-recorded files i've made.
2. This is the same as Setup 1, but with an audio track enabled to run my mic through the program. This is also set to give me a strong volume in relation to the piano. I use this when i'm singing to whatever i'm playing on my digital piano (that's being fed to the synth). I prefer the mic when i'm sitting down looking at my fingers, as my torso/throat/head are not aligned properly.
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Janet
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Re:How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
2011/06/07 17:23:04
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I've got a drum & bass track for the last piano piece I worked on (Road Trip, by Jon Schmidt.) But I never could figure out how to practice with it when I needed it. (couldn't hear it on the laptop) AFTER the recital I realized I could load it into Sonar and play along. Duh!! Little too late, but it sure is fun now! (and MAYBE it will help me not speed up the dumb thing so fast!)
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Re:How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
2011/06/07 17:27:59
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Jonbouy
bayoubill
I have vocal exercises to sing along with as warm-ups ( i need all the help i can get)
ii-V altered and unaltered for scale arp phrasing etc. ( I re-record each day in different keys to explore positions and such)
Work on transcribing solos by loops
Sonar is a dream come true when it comes to practicing your instrument!!!!
Indeed then, there's strict tempo and timing.
Not that I practice anymore, but I could...
I didn't think drummers ever practiced? [ducking...]
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bapu
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Re:How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
2011/06/07 17:28:27
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Janet, I've already not sped up the dumb thing. It's not pretty. Look what happened to me.
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bapu
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Re:How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
2011/06/07 17:35:35
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Can someone explain why I should practice a day.
Aren't they all the same?
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Janet
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Re:How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
2011/06/07 17:39:02
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Reece...some drummers DO practice. :)
Ed...say what? lol
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Ham N Egz
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Re:How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
2011/06/07 17:57:11
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I use Sonar to help locate Unterseeboots
Green Acres is the place to be I dont twitter, facebook, snapchat, instagram,linkedin,tumble,pinterest,flick, blah blah,lets have an old fashioned conversation!
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Beagle
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Re:How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
2011/06/07 18:31:41
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Janet
Reece...some drummers DO practice. :)
Ed...say what? lol
when they're not drooling?
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SteveStrummerUK
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Re:How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
2011/06/07 18:36:15
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musicman100
I use Sonar to help locate Unterseeboots
George, that's a good idea, on reflection.
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craigb
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Re:How Many Here Use Sonar for Daily Practice?
2011/06/07 22:54:55
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What IS this "practice" concept I seem to hear so much about anyway?
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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