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Day Two Hundred Thirteen (Year Four)

Into the home stretch on the album-in-a-month project!  Including today there are but six days left in February, and there is still so much to do!

I got started on the drums today, finally.  It goes so much smoother when the tempos are actually accurate.

Drums got finished for 2 out of the 11 songs.  Not as much as I wanted to get done today, but at least I've begun the process, and honestly, that doesn't seem all that bad considering I only got to spend about an hour and a quarter in the studio tonight.  I'm really hoping that tomorrow afternoon and evening will allow me the time to finish up the drums for the rest of the record.

Either way, the drums need to be finished by the end of the day on Monday.  That way, I can spend all day on Tuesday working on guitar parts and trying to get that part of things in some semblance of order. 

If everything breaks well, that just might leave me the rest of the week to start in on lyrics and (perhaps) vocals.

Today was productive, but tomorrow needs to be more productive.  Now that the drums are at least underway, that should help.   
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