Category: Music

Two May Songs

I wasn’t going to share these songs because there really isn’t anything interesting about either one of them Then I remembered we’re stuck in a global pandemic lock down so why the hell not.

Also, WordPress.com has released their new editor today and I need an excuse to try it out. It’s very similar to the mobile app and it’s okay so far. One small item of note so far is that I don’t see a way to switch to an HTML editor. I’m sure it’s out there somewhere.

Anyway, two songs. Neither is all that good, but they are both done. Two down and eight, maybe nine, to go.

I wonder if any of this stuff worked.

Ready to Mix

I followed up this morning’s vocal sessions with two songs worth of lead guitar.  That makes two songs ready to mix.  I should have at least one before bed time!  May music is starting to arrive, at last.

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May Music Morning

I took the Mazda and the MacBook out for a ride this morning.  We headed out to the current mobile recording studio location and put vocals on four songs.  Last night I finished the rhythm guitars on the last three songs (including three drone tracks on one 4+ minute song, meaning I played one note for 4+ minutes and then repeated it three times.  Yup, sorry everyone), and after this morning I have six songs with finished vocals.

Progress is good.

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Suck It, Jimmy Page

I just put backwards echo onto two guitar tracks in GarageBand.

By reverse echo, I don’t mean the digital signal effect that sort of makes an echo sound backward, I mean the real deal.  I mean instead of having a sound followed by an echo, I have the echo preceding the sound.

Jimmy Page claimed to have invented the technique when he used it on Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” (Waaaay down inside… Woman… Youuuu need… Loooooooooove)

Les Paul actually invented the technique using a couple of reel to reel tape decks.  Les Paul was a genius.  Jimmy Page was great, but he weren’t no Les Paul.

I took two tracks of guitar, reversed them, loaded them up with shit loads of echos, exported the segments to iTunes, reimported them into a new track in GarageBand and reversed them again.

Boom.

The echo comes before the sound.

Now I am going to mix that new track in with the original tracks so that it’s kind of subtle, but you can bet your sweet ass it’s there.

I love messing with backward tracks.  I just freakin’ love it.

Junior

I’ve been playing a Gibson Les Paul Custom since 1990.

Before that I played a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe (before it was stolen and my heart was crushed).

I’ve never said this before…
I’ve never thought this before…
I never dreamed this before but…
but…

I think I want a Gibson Les Paul Junior.

Partly because a vintage Junior is cheaper than a vintage Standard and my chances of actually owning something from the 1950’s is a lot higher.. but even just in terms of the current models…

I think I want a Gibson Les Paul Junior.

May Music Update

Things are a little better than the last time I mentioned May Music.  When I lost a days worth of changes due to a backup snafu I didn’t lose the new lyrics.  Those were copied into my Trello card for each song.  The tracks with the melodies were gone for good so I had to come up with something new that fit the lyrics.  I was able to take care of that over the last couple of days, as well as add a couple more songs.

This morning I was able to record two songs worth of vocals.  Not much, but a good start.  Here’s where I stand overall.  Two songs have vocals and are ready for lead guitar.  Five songs have the lyrics and melodies written and are ready for vocals.  Three songs have all of the music written but need rhythm guitars.  One of those three have lyrics and a melody already.

Today is May 18th.  Plenty of time remaining.

Lost

I did some good work on May Music last night. Four songs got lyrics and melodies. When I finished I backed everything up. Today the computer crashed and I had to wipe it. I lost yesterday’s work, but I had the backup.

Nope.

The backup didn’t save correctly. Yesterday’s changes are all gone for good.