Talked to both J. and B. today.
J. and I finally had in month-in-the-making guide track discussion, and now it all makes sense to me. The initial guide tracks need a strum on each of the changes, in time with the song, so that we make sure the drums and bass are falling in the right places. A secondary guide track (should one be needed) would simply be another bed of sound that could potentially be used to fill in holes. I hooked him up with the chords for the first song we've been working on, because all of his bass notes were wrong. He dropped in the first guide track, just to give me an idea of what he's looking for, and then turned the volume way down on it, and pronounced the track ready for actual recording. My job this week is to knock out the guide(s) for the next song. I told him of the plan to have all of the songs finished & arrangements done by the time I get back from vacation. He agrees with the plan, because if that happens, then as soon as I get back, everything will be full speed ahead.
As for the chat with B., it was fairly quick. I re-hashed what J. and I talked about, and we talked about the tracks that J. left in the dropbox. B. was excited and wanting to record vocals over the backing track, but then decided that she wanted an acoustic part to sing over, so I'll have to drop that in this week. She's going to be away this weekend, so hopefully I can have a lot of stuff to send her by the time she gets back into town. Who knows, maybe we can get some songs finished before I go home.
As for me tonight, I finished the Keith Richards bio right after work, and have been playing around with the music since talking with J. I started playing around with the chord progressions for the song he needs guide tracks for, and then stopped to figure out the structure for the song, because just throwing myself into the mix on it didn't work. B. texted in the middle of that, so I'll go back to it before going to bed.
Never did get up early this morning. Going to try again tomorrow.
J. and I finally had in month-in-the-making guide track discussion, and now it all makes sense to me. The initial guide tracks need a strum on each of the changes, in time with the song, so that we make sure the drums and bass are falling in the right places. A secondary guide track (should one be needed) would simply be another bed of sound that could potentially be used to fill in holes. I hooked him up with the chords for the first song we've been working on, because all of his bass notes were wrong. He dropped in the first guide track, just to give me an idea of what he's looking for, and then turned the volume way down on it, and pronounced the track ready for actual recording. My job this week is to knock out the guide(s) for the next song. I told him of the plan to have all of the songs finished & arrangements done by the time I get back from vacation. He agrees with the plan, because if that happens, then as soon as I get back, everything will be full speed ahead.
As for the chat with B., it was fairly quick. I re-hashed what J. and I talked about, and we talked about the tracks that J. left in the dropbox. B. was excited and wanting to record vocals over the backing track, but then decided that she wanted an acoustic part to sing over, so I'll have to drop that in this week. She's going to be away this weekend, so hopefully I can have a lot of stuff to send her by the time she gets back into town. Who knows, maybe we can get some songs finished before I go home.
As for me tonight, I finished the Keith Richards bio right after work, and have been playing around with the music since talking with J. I started playing around with the chord progressions for the song he needs guide tracks for, and then stopped to figure out the structure for the song, because just throwing myself into the mix on it didn't work. B. texted in the middle of that, so I'll go back to it before going to bed.
Never did get up early this morning. Going to try again tomorrow.
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