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Day One Hundred Eighty (Year Two)

Talked to that co-worker today about the artist he recommended the other day that I couldn't remember.  Chad VanGaalen was the guy's name.  I looked him up again today.  It's weird folky kind of stuff, but it's interesting. 

He also recommended a band called Menomena.  They appear to be fronted by a sax player, and have another member that plays guitar and keyboards.  At least, that's what it looked like in the video I watched on Youtube.  It's atmospheric indie piano based pop.  Kinda funky, but enjoyable.

I slowly started the process tonight of figuring out tempos for the demos we have, so that we can hopefully give J. a leg up when it comes time to do drum tracks.  It's surprisingly tough to match up a metronome to a previously existing performance.  Having listened to the demo for so long almost hurts me in this case, because the tempo just is what it is at this point.  I'll dive into it and get them all figured out, though, because it needs to happen, and because it's the logical first step to getting this project on track.  I open the next 2 days, so I'll have evenings free to solve the tempo issues.  If I can get half of them figured out tomorrow, and half on Saturday, then starting Sunday we can really dive in.

I'd have gotten more done today if I hadn't slept for 4 hours after work.  I get that these things are going to happen, but they frustrate me when I have a lot of musical things I want to get done.  Better tomorrow.

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