{"id":556,"date":"2019-04-15T03:25:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T03:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2019-04-15T03:25:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T03:25:51","slug":"dead-birds-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/dead-birds-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Birds Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/deadbirdsfly2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2944\" height=\"2208\" data-attachment-id=\"559\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/dead-birds-fly\/20190414_230736\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190414_230736.jpg?fit=2944%2C2208&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2944,2208\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G970U&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1555283256&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0833333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;6&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20190414_230736\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190414_230736.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190414_230736.jpg?fit=525%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190414_230736.jpg?fit=525%2C394\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"559\" data-link=\"http:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=559\" class=\"wp-image-559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190414_230736.jpg?w=2944&amp;ssl=1 2944w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190414_230736.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190414_230736.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190414_230736.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190414_230736.jpg?w=1575&amp;ssl=1 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Dusted off the ole  bass guitar tonight. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Title taken from the chorus, &#8220;even dead birds fly when thrown&#8221;.  Unfinished recording, however,  I&#8217;m incredibly excited about this song, particularly the composition. I was stumped because the raw original drafts,  when I was singing and playing into my one track DVR,  had an energetic and cohesive feel that I couldn&#8217;t reproduce on Cubase. HOW does that happen?  Well, for one, I was simply trying to play too many parts on one guitar. So in the spirit of Roger &amp; Hammerstein (I saw Oklahoma on Broadway last night but I mostly watched the band) I dusted off my old bass guitar and broke those parts up.  Again, I still have work to do with recording; Drums. Gel the bridge. Etc. However, the song is done and it&#8217;s been too long since I shared anything. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title taken from the chorus, &#8220;even dead birds fly when thrown&#8221;. Unfinished recording, however, I&#8217;m incredibly excited about this song, particularly the composition. I was stumped because the raw original drafts, when I was singing and playing into my one track DVR, had an energetic and cohesive feel that I couldn&#8217;t reproduce on Cubase. HOW &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/dead-birds-fly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dead Birds Fly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QAwT-8Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}