{"id":570,"date":"2025-08-10T16:46:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T16:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2025-10-18T16:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:02:39","slug":"personal-best-time-to-an-improv-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/personal-best-time-to-an-improv-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Best Time to an Improv Recording"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I might be getting faster.  I pulled out my electric guitar and sat on my back porch to quietly strum without an amp.  Too self conscious to let anyone hear me.  And it was 9 in the morning.  I strum a G as my first chord as I so often do.  And then just whipped out this progression on the first attempt.  Decided I was going to record it.  Booted up Ableton and captured it on the first take.  From scratch to recorded was only a few minutes!  A few more minutes with some reverb, and volume adjustment.  And&#8230; done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PracticeLog4.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a Shaggy Mane I saw on my walk just before my recording session<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ShaggyMane-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ShaggyMane-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ShaggyMane-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ShaggyMane-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ShaggyMane-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ShaggyMane-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I might be getting faster. I pulled out my electric guitar and sat on my back porch to quietly strum without an amp. Too self conscious to let anyone hear me. And it was 9 in the morning. I strum a G as my first chord as I so often do. And then just whipped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recordings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}