Today was a good day. I managed to get a number of things done in different areas.
I finally got around to importing the new music I had picked up when we were in DSM last weekend, most notably, Snow Patrol's Up To Now. They were one of those bands that everyone always spoke highly of, but nobody could give me a particular record to start exploring their music, or rather, everyone recommended something different from their catalog. So, rather than buy everything impulsively, I waited until I could find the 2 disc version of their "Greatest Hits" used and at a reasonable price. The other record I picked up, Son Volt's Wide Swing Tremolo, it turns out I had already picked up.
Going into the studio tonight, I was expecting a night of electric playing and a bit of theory studying. Instead, the night took me in a much more acoustic direction, and had me thinking about set list songs. More specifically, it had me thinking about two songs I hadn't been able to find reliable chords for online. So, without much thought, I set up my mini-speakers, grabbed a pen and my notebook I'm keeping for stuff I figure out from radio and CD, and got started transcribing the chord progressions for Kasey Anderson's "Like Teenage Gravity," and The Airborne Toxic Event's "A Letter To Georgia." I did pretty well with both of them, I thought. Tomorrow will tell for sure. I'll go back to them after a night's sleep and see how they sound to my ears then before I make any final proclamations.
I started going through the current run of magazines, too, which gets that crossed off of my list from yesterday.
The big thing I still haven't done yet is go through the record and take notes about what needs to change for the final versions of the songs. Not sure why I haven't gotten to that yet. I've certainly listened through it enough times to make going through it with a notebook and a pen a pretty straightforward process. I think that will be tomorrow's goal: to finally get through the record.
I finally got around to importing the new music I had picked up when we were in DSM last weekend, most notably, Snow Patrol's Up To Now. They were one of those bands that everyone always spoke highly of, but nobody could give me a particular record to start exploring their music, or rather, everyone recommended something different from their catalog. So, rather than buy everything impulsively, I waited until I could find the 2 disc version of their "Greatest Hits" used and at a reasonable price. The other record I picked up, Son Volt's Wide Swing Tremolo, it turns out I had already picked up.
Going into the studio tonight, I was expecting a night of electric playing and a bit of theory studying. Instead, the night took me in a much more acoustic direction, and had me thinking about set list songs. More specifically, it had me thinking about two songs I hadn't been able to find reliable chords for online. So, without much thought, I set up my mini-speakers, grabbed a pen and my notebook I'm keeping for stuff I figure out from radio and CD, and got started transcribing the chord progressions for Kasey Anderson's "Like Teenage Gravity," and The Airborne Toxic Event's "A Letter To Georgia." I did pretty well with both of them, I thought. Tomorrow will tell for sure. I'll go back to them after a night's sleep and see how they sound to my ears then before I make any final proclamations.
I started going through the current run of magazines, too, which gets that crossed off of my list from yesterday.
The big thing I still haven't done yet is go through the record and take notes about what needs to change for the final versions of the songs. Not sure why I haven't gotten to that yet. I've certainly listened through it enough times to make going through it with a notebook and a pen a pretty straightforward process. I think that will be tomorrow's goal: to finally get through the record.
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