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Day Three Hundred Forty Nine

Chatted with B. tonight. I sent her the file of the one I had finished off earlier in the week, now with the chrous added on to the recording, and she said she likes it, so it looks like that one can be added to the pile of songs that need finishing.

She, apparently, has been working on stuff too. She sent me a new one that she recorded a bit of the other day. Not sure whether or not it will work for the band or not, but I liked it. And since she's already promised me that I'll get to produce the demos should she want to make a solo record at some point, the producer side of me is excited about that. I'm still digging the one she sent me last week, though. Although, I hear it on piano, I think.

And speaking of piano, we had this really cool song in the original run of demos that ended up with a very prominent piano riff. Considering neither of us play piano, this seemed impressive at the time. Well, tonight she tells me she found something awesome that she hasn't gotten the chance to send me yet, and it's this song, but with a verse and a chorus of vocals over it. We've had the lyrics since the beginning, mind you, but had never recorded a vocal track years ago because we never felt like we had finished the music. Just with her vocal over the piano, the first verse and chorus gave me chills. It may be a little bit over-zealous at this point, but that song feels like the lynchpin for the whole record, like everything else will just sort of revolve around it, and fall into place accordingly. And if it sounded that good with just a rough piano part and a vocal, I can't wait to hear it with guitars, bass, and drums added to it.

For the first time, it's starting to feel like we really have an album on our hands, as opposed to a collection of songs we've written. She was all worried tonight that we wouldn't have enough songs, so we went through the list and counted it out. The way things sit right now, if we use everything we feel strongly about, and finish the ones that are just ideas right now, we'll have 17 songs, which to me is enough for a full record and an EP (or a full record and a good chunk of a second album). And that's not even taking into consideration the fact that more songs will likely be started between now and the time I go home.

That said, we have a firm goal in mind: we want to have solid demos, or very good ideas about everything by the time I swing home, so that (hopefully) by the end of my vacation, we can have the running order pretty much in place, and the rest of the kinks worked out, at least from a writing perspective. Actually recording the whole thing will likely be another matter entirely... hopefully this is where J.'s expertise will come in handy. I don't think we've set the bar too high by any means, and now that it's an officially stated goal: I say, bring on the challenge!

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