As things are progressing, I find (or we find) that there is always something new or different that throws a bit of a wrench in our schedule, and makes us lose a little bit of focus. I guess it goes to show how "amateur" we may be as far as being musicians go. Of course, I don't mean this in a bad way...I mean, I am talking about myself here as well! We have a hard time figuring things out from time to time.
At the current moment, we are trying to play the role of musician and producer. I mean this loosely at this point in time because what we are trying to do is basically just for us. We are just trying to work our way to recording a demo for ourselves to listen to and critique. Eventually we are going to work our way towards a more literal sense of the role, musician/producer as we look into letting people hear our creations.
It seems that we have a hard time of piecing things together. We have all of these "pieces" of songs, tracks, whatever you want to call them, but don't have a real sense of arranging them or at least we haven't figured that out just yet..this has been touched on before. If we did know how to arrange things, we would be way ahead of where we are now. It just would move along a lot easier. You might think that we would be playing around town somewhere. Imagine that!
Whatever you want to call it, whether it is being unorganized, lacking a bit of focus, lack of getting in the studio, or just plain lack or direction, we seem to hit some kind of a snag every now and then. To me, it's hard to figure out a solution to some of these problems. Sometimes, I think that I tend to over think things. I just try to look at all perspectives in trying to make some decisions, which I think causes the over thinking. We hit into a bit of that last night (2/19/08) in trying to rework the ending of "full tank". As the session progressed, things got a little too complicated. The good part about this was that right before leaving, we actually realized this. In hitting the track one last time we simplified it and it resulted in a better version. It was a great adjustment, and a step in the right direction.
I hope that the more we get into the studio, the easier things will get for us. As I have stated, we have gotten off to a good start for the most part this year, and I can only hope that it will continue and my hope that things get better and easier really do happen. Last night was proof of this, and a big positive for us, I think.
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Ok, I just typed up a long comment and lost it when an error message popped up. I will summarize what I wrote.
I am glad we have been open to and made adjustments to "Full Tank". It sounds a lot better with the way Mike changed up his parts.
I'm anxious to get this song recorded and mixed down. I'm anxious to hear a better sounding recording after the learning and tinkering we did with the four-track. I hope it blows the "In This Corner" recordings out of the water.
You two really impress me. We are much better musicians than we were when we first got in there. I like to listen to you two create and play when we are in there.
I can't wait to get this song recorded so we can begin the journey of a new song. It's really fun when we are creating stuff. I remember getting this way with "In This Corner"...coming to a point when you are starting to get tired of playing the song so much and ready to move on to the next bigger and better thing. It's like going up and down a mountain.
Thanks for taking the time to write this blog. I didn't realize you have been keeping up with it. Good job cuz.
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