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Day Two Hundred Thirty (Year Four)

I finally had the time tonight to sit down and give my record-in-a-month project a proper listen.  I went beginning to end, and while it's clear that the record is miles away from being a finished product, I've got three general reactions to what I heard:

1) I'm still really happy with what I ended up with.  Were the arrangements and tempos perfect?  Of course not, but considering this was my first real effort at this, I expected some flaws.  Truthfully, I expected a lot more flaws than I found.

2) I definitely need to bounce what I have and take it along on my road trip this weekend.  Not because it's perfect music for a road trip (yet), but because I want my brother to hear it in its roughest form, and because I want to have a chance to listen for melody and chord changes, and see if what I feel like I should hear matches up with what I do.  Which leads me to...

3) Even on an initial listen, I'm starting to hear things.  Tempo changes, where choruses really need to come in, verses that are too long, guitar lines, etc.  So, yes, a notebook will come along with me.  I'll likely snake the CD player from my Mom's, and listen again with an ear for taking notes
on what needs to change.

All told, a great night in the studio, partly because of what I've already done, and partly because I'm starting to see the path from where I am in the process of this crazy record-in-a-month to where I'll be at the end of it.
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