Dan Barracuda

So damn happy with my new purchase of an Art & Lutherie Legacy Concert Hall CW with a Bourbon Burst finish. Can't wait to keep playing this thing and break in the strings (that's when a guitar sounds the best in my opinion!) - listen up guys! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

Getting my new guitar today! An Art & Lutherie Concert Hall CW Legacy with Bourbon Burst color. Can't wait to record it for you guys! In other news: I'm recording new songs in a church. Yup. June 18 & June 27 are the dates I have booked to record. Cannot wait to document this and share it with you :)  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

I had such an awesome time at Berklee On-Site. Susan Rogers opened it up with an inspiring keynote about seeking your own fulfillment rather than "success" as society defines it. She was Prince's engineer and she is a BADASS. The other workshops I attended were Mixing Home Recordings, Email Marketing, Natural Processing Techniques for Singers, and Deconstructing A Final ProTools Mix. Listen up to see some key things I learned! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

This will be my 2nd time going to the annual Berklee event, filled with key notes and workshops on all sorts of topics. I'm going specifically for the Marketing & Mixing workshops: ProTools Mixing, Home Recording, Email Marketing, Building Your Online Presence & Audience. So excited for this guys, and I'm looking very forward to sharing you my thoughts and notes on what I've learned! Stay tuned :D --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

This episode is about taking a step back and realizing that we actually have a lot of value to give to others when it comes to doing our craft. A lot of times we don't realize that that we do automatically can be broken down into steps, and then taught to others wanting to do the same thing. This is what I've been focusing on lately! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

Talking more about the Mailing List I'm going to be launching. This week I decide to ask some of my followers what they would hypothetically like to see from me in monthly/regular emails. It was honestly amazing to get their feedback. They know best. I suggest you do the same! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

Discussing the importance of building an Email list. This is all stuff I've learned over the past week. This is a vital element to building a following. I need to get on it STAT, and you should too! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

This is my 2nd all-time favorite Beatles song. Tried making a sound-alike recording for it. Let me know what you think! This was a blast to make, and a great challenge in picking out the vocal harmonies.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

I strongly urge to look for opportunities that your city offers. You never know if you qualify for a grant that could make a significant impact on your artistic career. I just finished to applying to one of them, I don't find out for a few months but it feels good knowing I gave it a shot. And at the very least, it forces you to have your artist resume updated and looking sharp! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

Discussing my current thoughts on finding the right people you want to work with. I'm about to begin a new strategy of finding potential mixing clients. I'll be looking up bands and artists in the style of my wheelhouse, and try to engage with them directly. You know, build a rapport!  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

It's so amazing to finally hear new music from Tool. They just performed 2 brand new full songs. After Adam Jones recently posted a video of him playing a new riff, I instantly wanted to cover it. Check it out here! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

This is the 10th and final track off "Wavelength" - featuring Lasya on the Bansuri Flute. I'm really proud of this piece. It sounds like a garden in heaven, which is pretty much what I was going for! Hope you enjoy this one guys. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

Here's the 9th track off the new album "Wavelength". This song is from the perspective of the passion, the art, the ambition, speaking to the creator. Had a lot of fun crafting out the sound of this track! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

Here's the title track off the album, "Wavelength". This is one of my current favorites! I really like the sound of this song - drums, basslines, vocals, guitar, sound effects, lyrics. Here are the notes from my notebook: We are washed up on the shore, with our subconscious speaking to the Universe, the Way. And so we yield to enmity. Opposing waves of energy – the friction. This happens all the time, to everyone. Sometimes good things come, and they go away. What can we learn about this? This yin + yang of happenings, of life. When someone we love dies, we tend to really feel the finite-ness of life. Mortality. It takes a death to look all around. The Universe then speaks – “You won’t see, until we’re swimming. Try moving still – through me, through the same breath, as the sea’s spectrum of wavelengths. In this point of subconscious enlightenment from the Universe, we rise and regain strength. “I no longer am afraid. It takes death to look all around”. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarrac

Moving on to Track #8! This one's called "I, The Lurker". It sticks out like a sore thumb because of its mood. It's chaotic, evil, dark, all those things. Here are my stream of consciousness notes I had when creating this song:  So the album is going along, starting with inspiration, enlightenment, excitement, infatuation. Leads to confusion, reality sinking in, and then comes doubt. Extreme doubt, lack of confidence + direction leads to feeling lost and depressed. Down. At the bottom, we are most desperate. Ravenously looking for a way out. What happened to the old me, when I was excited & passionate about my path, my art, my mission? Looking for that old self so desperately. All of this happening in the mind and heart. This depression exposes a side of you, a dark side. Impatient, selfish, cynical, extreme. In our darkest moment, we fade away. Facing ego death. A part of us dies, here at the end of “I, The Lurker”. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

Sharing my cover of Pink Floyd's "Dogs" - let me know what you think about the execution! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

Giving an update here on what’s been going on since “Wavelength” was released! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

Here's the 6th track from "Wavelength" - it's called "Down". Here are my stream of consciousness notes for this song: It’s out of sight? What is? The purpose. The drive, the will. It’ll always be away from your grasp, your reach. Never to be seen. It’s all been an illusion. Unattainable. A mirage. Not feeling connected to something brings me way down. I always want something to work on, to create. I remember around “Soliloquy” days, I would come home from work and just lay on the couch. Feeling such low drive. Lost. I’m on the same couch right now, 1.5 years later. The sadness hints are from doubt + frustration + fear that maybe I’m not on the right path and I’m wasting my time doing something I’ll never succeed in. And then you hear about how Chevy Chase was so depressed, or Cornell/Bennington killing themselves. There will always be something trying to bring you down. Some thought, or army of thoughts. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

Discussing Track#5 off my new album "Wavelength" - this one's called "Champagne Dizza". It's extremely psychedelic. This one hits home! I've had this idea since 2009. Check it out :D  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

Talking about Track #4 off "Wavelength". This one's called Cadabra Pearls. Stream of Consciousness writings from my notebook:  I like what I wrote for Sundrug. It ends in a confused state of calm with that sudden modulation to F. It’s serene, but very odd and confusing…sort of like the music is saying “well, that’s life – that’s how the cookie crumbles”. The rays get pitched down at the end, like drooping down and melting away. Falls into Cadabra Pearls. In this song, it’s all about the doubt. “I’m not so sure…these pearls of wisdom…are they to draw me in…and push me down?” Sort of talking to people that say “do what you love”, “keep going, never give up”. Days like today make me really doubt it. Am I on the right track? Am I not “working smart”? Feeling like I need to justify myself. Always starting things that I don’t finish. So much doubt about my future & dreams. It’s taking too long, waves of losing patience. Am I on the wrong track? The cadabra pearls are the words of wisdom, these magical ball