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Day Six (Year Four)

Going into tonight, the last night of the second song cycle, I was hoping to get a few things figured out:

1) I wanted to map out the whole song, if only to figure out where the electric and the bass got out of sync in the last 15 seconds of the song.

2) I wanted to get the electric part right all the way through

and

3) I wanted to at least play around with dropping in the acoustic part.

Here's how it all went down:

I got the song completely blocked out, and in so doing quickly diagnosed the issues in the last chorus and the outro.  It shouldn't be weird how much easier it becomes to work through something when every chord change is there in front of you, but somehow it always takes me a bit by surprise.  That said, I think getting the electric part took me two takes.

I started in on the acoustic part, just intending to record the intro and the first verse.  More to get a feel for the sound and the strumming pattern than anything else.  I'm close on the strumming pattern, but overall the sound was thinner than I had hoped.  Seems like the part might need to be doubled.  I'm out of energy for that tonight, though.  Sometime in the next few days I'll go back to it, but for now...

Tomorrow starts work on song #3!

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