Another day closer to having this whole thing finished. And so it goes, onward and upward or something.
I worked on four songs on day 67. I started the day with seven songs ready to mix, one ready for vocal tracking, and one that needed lyrics before it could get vocals. I had a few minutes with the house to myself last night after work so I pulled out my trusty microphone and put the vocals down on the first song. Then I wrote a melody and lyrics to the second song while recording (write a verse, record the vocal for it, write another verse, record the vocal for it, etc etc).
Once those two songs were down I thought… now what? Do I record the lead guitars for those two songs? Do I mix something? No, I added a new song. I was thinking the idea I had was in 3/4 time but I kept needing to up the tempo. In the end it was ridiculously fast which made me think I should have been in 6/8… but it didn’t seem like it wanted to have a triplet feel. I don’t know. I finished the MIDI bass and drums and left a guide for the eventual rhythm guitar tracks. I was hoping I would have time to add a melody and some lyrics but I did not.
When that was done I hung out with the love of my life watching the tube in the living room. Eventually it was bed time and instead of sleeping (which I should do more often) I worked out another song on GarageBand on my iPad. Weirdly, this one is also in 3/4 time. The structure is done, the MIDI bass is done. There’s a drummer track but it will be ruined when I port the file into GarageBand on my Mac. There’s some sort of bug there that screws up Drummer tracks. I’ll have to replace it eventually. There is also a guide for the rhythm guitar and a melody noodled out on an electric piano track. No lyrics yet though.
That brings the total song count up to 56. 45 are done and now 11 are still in progress. 50 songs in 90 days is the goal. I’m still shooting for 60 songs in 90 days though because I am a dork.
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