I’m mixing. I’m putting out an EP in a few months called If We Were, and for the past few weeks, I’ve been mixing. I’m making such a big point of it because I used to HATE mixing. As soon as I was done writing and recording, everything else would become a […]
Lovely rehearsal tonight for our mini-gig on Monday. Come on out; it’ll be great.
After: spent a while tweaking sloppy timing in In The Days. Spent another while pondering whether the sloppiness I’d just tweaked was what made the song work. Undid tweaking. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Tried out some different drum sample kits […]
So I just spent another hour working on La Da Da Dee. The keen readers among you may remember that just yesterday, I proclaimed that song “done.” But you can never underestimate the need to revise, to perfect, to tweak. I started by just making innocuous fixes here and there, cleaning up […]
And La Da Da Dee is done.
Well, not done, exactly. But in a complete form. An arrangement I like from beginning to end. The drums could use some reworking, and the languid section of the bridge still isn’t right. But it’s at the point now where I could give it to […]
I’ve been working some more on La Da Da Dee. Cleaning up those bridge grooves, filling out the 3rd verse, trying to get the ups and downs right. I don’t like programming drums for slower songs. It’s too easy to subvert the groove with a misplaced fill. I just looped a […]
Last night, I got down to business with the bridge on La Da Da Dee. I really like bridges. I like that feeling you get when everything’s going along as expected, and then something starts to give, and you know you’re off on a new journey. My music has always been about […]
Last night, I worked on that Perfect Moment bridge yet again. Sometimes I reach a point where I’m just throwing things together with almost no regard for what actually makes sense, and absolutlely none for context. But then I’ll listen back later on and realize that I’ve done something new. That once […]