Hmmm.... after reading all the replies I'm somehow glad that I've got a "package deal" when I married my wife. He's now 7 so it's easier. Being a 9-5'er who hates his job and wanting to get into the music industry, getting a child now seems like a bad idea. I need 3-4 hours to compose every day otherwise I won't get enough done and develop my skills enough to persue that dream.
I'm sure it's easier if you don't have both a full time job AND a music wanna be career, but just doing music for a living.
Is there a music after baby is born?
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- KVRAF
- 7540 posts since 7 Aug, 2003 from San Francisco Bay Area
My daughter just turned 15 months. I actually had more free time in the early months, because she slept quite a bit. Now shes running all over the place, talking, and constantly asking for "Daddy?"
I work about 10 hours/day, and spend about 3 hours/day stuck in SF Bay Area traffic
When I get home, she needs my full attention until bedtime, which has been getting later and later. Now she usually doesn't fall asleep until around 10:30, which is 1/2 hour past my bedtime if I was to get 8 hours sleep. After shes in bed, I need to help take care of things around the house such as dishes, laundry, garbage, bills, etc. By 11:00, I usually have some time to myself to start working on music... or sleep.
This will get better eventually. I've had my daughter banging on the piano since she was two months old. I'm going to get her involved in writing music, and hopefully it will be something we can do together.
The important thing to keep in mind is that raising a child is a new hobby in addition to music... one that you will find highly rewarding, and worth all the time you can devote to it(her). Congratulations!
I work about 10 hours/day, and spend about 3 hours/day stuck in SF Bay Area traffic
When I get home, she needs my full attention until bedtime, which has been getting later and later. Now she usually doesn't fall asleep until around 10:30, which is 1/2 hour past my bedtime if I was to get 8 hours sleep. After shes in bed, I need to help take care of things around the house such as dishes, laundry, garbage, bills, etc. By 11:00, I usually have some time to myself to start working on music... or sleep.This will get better eventually. I've had my daughter banging on the piano since she was two months old. I'm going to get her involved in writing music, and hopefully it will be something we can do together.
The important thing to keep in mind is that raising a child is a new hobby in addition to music... one that you will find highly rewarding, and worth all the time you can devote to it(her). Congratulations!
Incomplete list of my gear: 1/8" audio input jack.
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- KVRAF
- 7540 posts since 7 Aug, 2003 from San Francisco Bay Area
I forgot the most important thing:
Do all of your KVR surfing from the office. That way you'll have more free time for music when you get home from work.
Do all of your KVR surfing from the office. That way you'll have more free time for music when you get home from work.
Incomplete list of my gear: 1/8" audio input jack.
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- Banned
- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
no, no, no!
when a baby is born you might expect to hear a few gentle notes played on an e.p. or something with a soft synth chord, the baby's soft sounds should counjure the emotion.. if you want music, you've got to go to your "evil person enters the room," big entrances or sweeping panoramic scenes, stuf like that.
when a baby is born you might expect to hear a few gentle notes played on an e.p. or something with a soft synth chord, the baby's soft sounds should counjure the emotion.. if you want music, you've got to go to your "evil person enters the room," big entrances or sweeping panoramic scenes, stuf like that.
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
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- KVRAF
- 4749 posts since 15 Jul, 2001 from Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, U.K
100% all my best stuff (so im told 
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was written after my daughter was born.
then again I have a super cool wife, I think it's more down to this to be honest.
some women go
after kids.
)was written after my daughter was born.
then again I have a super cool wife, I think it's more down to this to be honest.
some women go
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- KVRian
- 1178 posts since 24 Jan, 2003 from the hilly bit in Lincs, UK
Decent headphones are the answer.
After a few months, baby will get used to wearing them I am sure.
After a few months, baby will get used to wearing them I am sure.
Mild-mannered web designer by day - tired web designer by night.
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- KVRAF
- 2818 posts since 30 Aug, 2001 from where dinosaurs are still alive
delightful harmonic thread.
I've got a friend who after becoming father has almost disappeared...furthermore he started making weirdo things like going back to university (can you see a guitarist starting medicine at 28?)...anyway he still has that look while listening to a solo, and says all the time: "next week I'm coming over the studio, we'll jam a lot, I got new lines to work on, etc..."
rep+ for all the fathers here. I'm so afraid to have a kid (knowing myself), you all make me feel so silly and "small".
btw,
I've got a friend who after becoming father has almost disappeared...furthermore he started making weirdo things like going back to university (can you see a guitarist starting medicine at 28?)...anyway he still has that look while listening to a solo, and says all the time: "next week I'm coming over the studio, we'll jam a lot, I got new lines to work on, etc..."
rep+ for all the fathers here. I'm so afraid to have a kid (knowing myself), you all make me feel so silly and "small".
btw,
hehekrim wrote:any of them single
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- KVRAF
- 6496 posts since 26 Nov, 2004 from Frederick, MD
Of course there's music after the baby comes. A friend of mine just had a baby, and I recorded music only last night . . . oh, you meant after YOU father a baby. Never mind.
I'll have music. You have the babies. M'kay>
I'll have music. You have the babies. M'kay>
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- KVRAF
- 2818 posts since 30 Aug, 2001 from where dinosaurs are still alive