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Day Three Hundred Forty Eight

So, I started in on the verses for that old song today. It didn't take me all that long to come up with something that used some of the same sounds as the original, but was better constructed and catchier. That I liked it better than what we had used originally was the important part, though.

My only fear right now is that the new verses are too close to the progression that made up the original chorus. But seeing as I'm having trouble deciphering the original chords from the chorus, that seems like a perfectly reasonable reaction. It was the only song we didn't have an acoustic part on, and I'm kicking myself for making that decision now that I have to go back and figure out what we did. I remember us talking about that at the time, should we add an acoustic part to serve as an underbelly. All I can say is that it would have made the current process a whole lot easier.

Wrote back and forth with B. tonight on Skype. Bigger conversation tomorrow, still. She is working on more new stuff! It seems like the next time we're able to get together (hopefully early August), we're going to have tons and tons of songs to go through/finish off/consider. This is definitely a good thing. As we've both said more times than I can count, we'd rather have too much material to pick from than not enough.

Right now the plan is to get home tomorrow afternoon, record the rest of the song I finished up earlier in the week, and maybe finish up this old one. If we're not careful, we'll finish off everything on that list we made up in March. Not that this would be a bad thing...

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