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Day Ten (Year Four)

Today was busy, but awesome.

At the end of the night last night, I had all of the drum patterns figured out for song #3, I just hadn't taken the time to figure out how many measures were in the various sections.  In my head, I found myself thinking that the rest of the drums shouldn't take very long... man, oh man, was I mistaken.

Figuring out the measures and the fills took me two hours.  I got home from a bit of awesome family stuff around 7:30, thinking that would be plenty early to get the drums down and get the bass recorded.  Solving those issues and getting the four minutes and eleven seconds recorded was so intensive (and gave me such a headache) that I'm taking some Advil and leaving the bass part to be recorded tomorrow.  My only saving grace is that I'm not feeling an acoustic part for this song at all, so I should gain a day there.

and i love my wife and (someone wandered past my keyboard while I was saving the recording of the drums, I think... she's right, though, I do love my wife).

Also of note today:  I went ahead and ordered myself both the Rock and Blues Guitar Lesson Goldmine books... Happy Birthday to me!  They should actually be here the day after, but still.

That's really all I know today.  I feel good about the drums, and I can't wait to see how the bass part locks in when I get to that tomorrow.  But for now, I need to sleep.

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