{"id":559,"date":"2025-08-09T16:14:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2025-10-18T16:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:02:39","slug":"focus-focus-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/focus-focus-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus Focus Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Man I am really prone to distraction, especially when given infinite choices.  Give me a room filled art supplies and I can&#8217;t do anything.  But give me two colors and tell me I have to paint a mountain of another planet using just those two colors and suddenly everything is ok.  I can make something under those circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve struggled with this forever and it&#8217;s only gotten worse with more and more ways to do things digitally.  Ableton for example is a bottomless well of sound design.   I get lost forever in the bottomless well of sound design.  All the options also make it impossible for me to even learn it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So. I&#8217;m going to focus. I&#8217;m creating a limitation. I&#8217;ve asked myself, &#8220;What is the most useful and important thing for me to know and do well using Ableton?&#8221;. And the answer I come up with is this: I want to be able to record live loop improvisations using the Push 2.  This is what I&#8217;m going to try to do.  Get good at this little sliver of production abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here&#8217;s today&#8217;s looping session.  A whimsical Pink Panther inspired bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PracticeLog3.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m really pleased with successfully navigating the Push to trigger the recordings, trim the clips, and even adding a New Track on the fly WITHOUT using my mouse and keyboard. It&#8217;s a joy to play standing up and have the large device with physical buttons and knobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fretboard-1024x595.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fretboard-1024x595.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fretboard-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fretboard-768x446.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fretboard-1536x892.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fretboard-2048x1190.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man I am really prone to distraction, especially when given infinite choices. 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