Getting closer to the end of year three. Only twelve days now. It's kind of cool to me that the start of year four will happen in the middle of this Start Experiment.
We got our group assignments today. That makes it real. No more chance to chicken out at the last minute.
It's funny, now that Friday is over, and the whole project starts in 48 hours, I'm afraid to do too much beforehand, out of fear that I'll burn myself out before the whole thing starts. That said, tonight I:
1) Got back to the Buddy Holly tonight. Played through the sections that might give me the most trouble (the intro, and the solo), going slowly to get the notes under my fingers.
2) Went to my giant wall of CDs and pulled a Buddy Holly disc, then found, and plugged in the guitar trainer, and listened to the sections slowed down. I think this is going to go smoothly. The only issue is that the echo that was so common on 50's era recordings is doubling some of the notes. Not a crisis, by any means, just an interesting side effect that gets worse when you slow the speed of the recordings.
Still want to have the songs for the EP decided on by Sunday night, so I plugged away at that for a little bit as well. Came close to a few epiphanies, but nothing clicked in a definitive fashion. Back at that tomorrow and Sunday in an effort to finish them off.
Feel good about what I got done tonight. More tomorrow, and better. It's almost time to START.
We got our group assignments today. That makes it real. No more chance to chicken out at the last minute.
It's funny, now that Friday is over, and the whole project starts in 48 hours, I'm afraid to do too much beforehand, out of fear that I'll burn myself out before the whole thing starts. That said, tonight I:
1) Got back to the Buddy Holly tonight. Played through the sections that might give me the most trouble (the intro, and the solo), going slowly to get the notes under my fingers.
2) Went to my giant wall of CDs and pulled a Buddy Holly disc, then found, and plugged in the guitar trainer, and listened to the sections slowed down. I think this is going to go smoothly. The only issue is that the echo that was so common on 50's era recordings is doubling some of the notes. Not a crisis, by any means, just an interesting side effect that gets worse when you slow the speed of the recordings.
Still want to have the songs for the EP decided on by Sunday night, so I plugged away at that for a little bit as well. Came close to a few epiphanies, but nothing clicked in a definitive fashion. Back at that tomorrow and Sunday in an effort to finish them off.
Feel good about what I got done tonight. More tomorrow, and better. It's almost time to START.
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