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Day One Hundred Seventy Nine (Year Two)

Heard back from J.  He wasn't as crushed by the news that I don't think what we've spent 7 months working on belongs on the EP as I thought he was going to be.  This was unexpected.  And also really good news!  In fact, he sort of backed up what I've thought all along.  Here's the exciting stuff from his comments:

After stating that we started where we did because it was the easiest entry point, he said this: 

I wanted to make sure we could get through the process before starting to work on the harder (more important) ones.

Then, he laid out a plan for expediting things going forward, saying:   

I'd like to figure out how to speed the process up before getting too deep. Ideally, each track to be recorded should have a turn-around between 3-7 days, considering work schedules, etc. mixes should take about the same. If we could do an entire song in the span of a couple months, it would be easier to keep focus. 


He's right about the shorter time frame making it easier to keep focus.  The only problem I have with his theory is that it might not let us finish up before the end of the year, which is really what I was hoping for.  I told him that I would feel better about the whole thing if we had gotten at least something done on multiple songs, as opposed to spending all this time on one tune that might not even make the record, and he said the following:

On my end, I can only really work on one song at a time, or else I wouldn't get anything done on any of them. But, we can change songs if you think it will help bring focus. I have some stuff ready for the other two I was working on, and could have more with just a little time.

This is encouraging to me, because it projects well going forward.  Plus, I totally understand his logic for only working on one thing at a time.  Truthfully, I'm fine with that too, so long as the work gets done faster than it has been.  And yet, it was the last thing he wrote that gives me the most hope.  In part this is because it gives me a reason to get motivated again.  Here are his final two paragraphs:


In the mean-time, why don't you get some tracks recorded? Play the guitar with a metronome, and then just get a bunch of different takes down. Change the style up, and record some more. The more you give me to to work with, the better editing and mixing I can do. Then, B. can record some vocal tracks the same way, using one of your guitar tracks.

That way, you two can work at any pace that suits you at the time, and you can change focus when something gets hung up. I will be able to tackle one project and move on to the next without any delay. I think that one of the things that gets us hung up is that we are all dependent on each other's schedules to get things done, but if we are all working separately, we can crank out much more work in a shorter time.


He's right.  Because we've only been working on one thing at a time, there's been a lot of waiting for 2 out of the 3 of us while the other person is working on their stuff.  If we all just keep working on whatever strikes our fancy at a given moment, the whole project will come together a lot faster.

Now, if only I can talk B. into the EP idea over the full record... 

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