I’m sooooooo excited, next song ready for album, just a few to go. Frustrating, I wish I could work faster, I think if I had time to play more, my rhythm would be more reliable and spot on. Oh hell, ain’t nothing 100 takes can’t fix!
This song was written very quickly last March on the rock star bus. The production was surprisingly hard. It’s a folk song at heart. so I had to be really careful not to over-do it. I meant to play acoustic, but I left that guitar at work, so I broke out my electric. Notice there’s no bass, hardly any harmonies, and sparse second and third guitar parts. It was tricky figuring out when to build and deconstruct. After a morning of watching youtube live DJ sets, I became too obsessed with the dynamics and I feel like this took forever. It was at least 10 times as long to produce than to write.
After my initial mixing automations of the individual tracks, I’d master the song only to hear something else that required attnetion, and have to go back in, tweak, mix and master again. And again.
It’s nice to wrap my heart in this project for a couple of intense days. As most of us, this pandemic has drastically changed my situation. I think I must work 60 hours a week now. And that’s an improvement over March and April. A few people haven’t been able to come in, so I’m working overtime.
Well, my wife just asked if I feel it’s a waste of time to be writing a blog post that noone will ever read. She feels I should be working on my album, not a blog post. I explained that I’m burnt out, I’ve been working on this song for hours. Lol, come to think of it, doesn’t she realize I’m also working on an album that noone will ever hear?
