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Day Nine (Year Four)

So, yeah, today was a surprise!  My Dad showed up tonight, and hour before I got off work... that's a 9 hour drive!  And on top of that, he stayed for dinner and about 3 hours of sitting in our living room and talking, and he's leaving at the crack of dawn tomorrow to go back to Wisconsin.  He just does that stuff, it's really cool.

That said, most of my night was occupied with family and not with music, BUT... I still managed to finalize the tempo on song #3 (a lot slower than I had initially planned on, but it works better that way) and figure out what the drum patterns are going to be for it.  I haven't programmed the drums for the demo yet, that takes more energy than I have right now, but I know that I can get to that tomorrow along with laying down the bass part.

All told, I'm happy with the tempo, I'm happy with the drums, I'm happy with the bass part I've written.  That should lead to a killer groove, and (hopefully) an easy time tracking the bass and the guitars.

On a side note: having just paged through the Acoustic Guitar Lesson Goldmine, I can already tell that I'm going to like it enough that I'll need to order (or find) the ones for Blues and Rock.  Perhaps I'll order myself a couple of birthday presents (it's on Monday).

That's really all I've got tonight.  Off to get some sleep, so that I can get back to the music tomorrow afternoon!
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