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Day Two (Year Four)

Today was strange.

Next on my list of daily recording tasks was laying down the bass line.  I thought I at least had a solid idea of where that was headed going into the day, but as I sat down to record tonight, nothing really seemed to click in conjunction with the drums.

"No problem," I thought, "I'll just record the acoustic part first, and then go back and lay down the bass tomorrow."  A good plan, except that it didn't work.

The real issue, I discovered, is in the way the drums are laid out right now.  I've got fills that segue between the intro and the verse, and then the verses and the choruses, but somehow the fills aren't uniform.  It seems like a few of them are a single measure long, and the rest of them are two measures long.  With no continuity on that front, it was hard for me to time things right.  The solution is obvious, thank god, and that is to go back through the drums with a fine toothed comb and make sure that all of the fills are the same length, and that they stand out a bit more from the verse and chorus patterns (If I have a complaint about the drums on this week's song, it's that the sections don't have enough between them that's distinctive).  From there, laying down both bass and acoustic should be easier.

It's odd to know that I worked on a couple of different things tonight, and got only answers and no recorded progress.  It's going to make tomorrow and Sunday interesting, but in things like START, there are bound to be bumps in the road.  The key is in how we respond to them.

More tomorrow.  And better.  And progress.

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