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Day Three Hundred Thirty Six

I got up late this morning, but still had time to sit down with the acoustic before work. Something tells me that B.'s songwriting adventure last night may have inspired a small journey for me today. I didn't get a lot done, but I did find chords for a small bit of lyric that had stayed with me for the last few years. It's a quicker progression, and one that feels a bit different for the band (and take it from me, we write some pretty different stuff). It's only a three chord progression over a couple of lines, but I like it.

I tried to work on recording that guide track this morning, too, and found that it was quite tough for me to not throw in all kinds of embellishments as I played the progression. I didn't get the track laid down, because I worked on that second, and when I went to listen I discovered that the original track was in a different tuning, and I didn't have enough time to re-tune and record before I left. I did, however, peel back all of the layers we put on the original demo to find the acoustic heart of the song, and in so doing, make the guide track easier for me to lay down when I finally do get around to tracking it (hopefully tomorrow). I'm really liking this idea of stripping everything back to the bare bones before we build it up. To go from demos that all started to run together/sound the same to songs that feel whole because they have drums and bass behind them has been amazing. Having the drums & bass & acoustic to hand off to B. will be an exciting moment for me. Thought I was supposed to Skype with J. tonight, but nothing ever came of that... which is probably good, since it'll give me another day to try and have a guide track to send him. We shall see what happens tomorrow.

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