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Day Two Hundred Twelve (Year Four)

So, after trying and (at least somewhat) failing to make much in the way of progress on the record last night, and knowing full-well that I am fast running out of time in the month with which to try and finish this record (or at least the music for it), I employed a somewhat drastic strategy: I admitted that yesterday was a lost cause, and set myself up for a busy weekend if I am to have any shot at finishing this off by next Friday. 

As it concerned tonight, my plan was a success.  I went back through all of the songs to re-check tempo, only this time I did it with drum sounds instead of just a metronome.  Sure enough, some of the numbers I had for BPM were way off.  Apparently I rushed through things a little bit the other night.  Either way, everything ought to be in good shape now, which means that tomorrow I can get started laying down drum tracks for the record.  My goal for the weekend is to get all of them tracked, leaving the last five days of the month for the guitar parts.  This is completely do-able.  The only thing that would be cooler would be if, by some freak happening, I wound up getting enough lyrical inspiration to finish off the words for the record, too.  Even if that were to happen, I'd have little or no chance at getting decent vocal takes with the cold I'm fighting right now, but it would still be cool.

The other thing I need to get to this weekend is those Volcano Choir records.  I've been talking about taking time to listen to those for almost two weeks now, I think.  I don't care whether that happens tomorrow or Sunday, but it will happen this weekend.

Good day today, but one that needs to be followed up by a better day tomorrow, and likely an even better one the day after that.
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