Ronald Jenkees » Motivation http://www.ronaldjenkees.com Hey! That's me in a real studio for once! Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:41:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Motif Motivation http://www.ronaldjenkees.com/2007/05/24/motif-motivation/ http://www.ronaldjenkees.com/2007/05/24/motif-motivation/#comments Thu, 24 May 2007 06:22:13 +0000 Ronald Jenkees http://ronaldjenkees.com/2007/05/24/motif-motivation/ I heard some famous hip-hop producer say one time that it doesn't matter what equipment you play on - what matters is what's going in your head musically (wish I could remember his name). He was right. Be happy with what you have and stop drooling over what you don't have! While it may look like a lot to some, my "studio" is actually quite a modest and humbling little setup but it does what I need it to for now. With that being said, I still get super-excited about new equipment. I mean, dang.

I played this keyboard today in a local music shop - the Yamaha Motif XS8. I was blown away. It reminded me of when I was a kid going into the store drooling over the inexpensive line of Yamaha boards (nothing against them! I played on one up until a few years ago!). And when I got one, I eventually wore the keys out on it and had to buy new pads to put under the keys. Fun stuff, folks. And you know how they tell you to visualize what you want? Well, I think this keyboard has been burned into my brain:

Thanks for reading and encouraging, folks. Every comment/subscriber I get motivates me more!

Psst! LOL. Here's a snippit of a beat I'm working on for my CD. It's the same background as used in this video about it possibly being used for the Bill Simmons podcast on ESPN. Hope you like it!

Dirty Bass

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