I uploaded a small guitar experiment the other day. May well have been yesterday. Who knows! Short term memory loss is a conundrum.

Having said this, I try to keep tabs on little melody ideas. A La, La, La or Na, Na, Na doodly doo too can be used. So if it needs to be instantly done, the iPad is ideal. I hum tunes into the internal microphone set up and capture on an app called MOTIV. It is the Shure app for using their microphone range, but works happily with the generic Apple iPad mic too.

Anyways. This morning I thought the Day or Night/Day and Night blog upload guitar tune, with the experiment of using a new M-Audio interface to record cleaner guitar sounds, would maybe make, in real terms, a nice melodic song.

I woke up this morning with a melody dawdling around my brain synapses that I had kind of played with a few times over the last few months. Guitar skills of mine are of a limited chord library. So I can often fit melody ideas into other chord progressions I have written. I love simplicity. It gives grace to one’s soul when it is inherent in one’s mind. And life. Simplicity and its ownership is a lovely way of life.

I say this because, as a technophobe, complication is now an ever present in my new life with the amount of learning curves to climb. I have just bought a mixer, the TASCAM Model 12 – Mixer | Interface |  Recorder | Controller – Integrated Production Suite, and am taking on more learning yet again. But in for a penny in for a pound they say. Angie, my wife, said ‘Just get it…..life’s too short’. She is wonderful. In six months the 69th year of me on this planet arrives. So next year the logic of math tells me I’ll be 70 years old. Logic also tells me that time waits for no-one. And technology isn’t an easy process for my brain to command. So take life ‘bit by bit’ as myself and a fellow blogger shortly mentioned the other day.