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Spontaneous
My plan to do some vocal recording in the car in the morning just spontaneously combusted.
Why?
Jen and Bellana went out to run an errand and left me at home alone. So… I tracked the vocals on the only two songs that were ready to go. Now I don’t have to do it tomorrow.
Unless I write more lyrics tonight, I guess.
10 June Songs
Yesterday’s music output was decent. I put guitars on two songs in the morning. Later I wrote lyrics for two songs and mixed another song. Before bed I started a new song idea and that makes 10 for the month of June. I’m not saying I will finish my album in a month goal for June, but it’s a whole lot easier to reach it when you actually have the correct number of songs in progress. Now, having said that, I had 10 songs in progress in May as well and I didn’t finish any of them so… yeah.
The guitar playing streak is up to 11 days. I think today might be the last day though. I think I want to do car vocals tomorrow instead. We’ll see. I also might want to start the couch to 5k stuff tomorrow. I am still undecided. Again, we’ll see. I did spend about 20 minutes playing today though. I put rhythm guitars on the new song idea from last night. That means all 10 June songs have rhythm guitars now. Good stuff!
Errand
I had to run out for an errand this morning and I had a camera with me because… you know… it’s me. Two pics from the front yard.
10 Days, Babie!
10 days in a row. I have played my guitar on 10 consecutive days. Glorious!
Now one of these days I am going to have to shift the musical focus from guitar to vocals-in-the-car and that will likely kill the streak, but for now? TEN DAYS.
Are you sick of the daily guitar pictures yet? I am not. It’s making my photo-a-day-challenge really super easy.
I had another pic of the cute little Vox Nutube amp as well but it was a little on the blurry side and I deleted it.
I currently have nine songs that are ready for lyrics and melody. I should really get cracking on that, right?
Long Exposure Test
I don’t know why I thought my neutral density filter didn’t fit on the Z 40mm f2 lens I bought for my Z5. I knew it was the right size, but for some reason I thought the threads were backwards or something. I actually tried using it today and much to my glee it fits perfectly. What was I thinking?
Anyway, I popped it into shutter priority mode and set the speed to 30 seconds and took my first mirrorless long exposure.
Now if we can just find a weekend day that isn’t cloudy and rainy, I’ll be able to take some long exposures at the ocean. Someday. Hopefully.
I Missed It
A few minutes ago, as I was typing up the last post, Jen called out to me to come upstairs quick. There was a baby deer in the yard!
I grabbed my Z5 and dashed upstairs, all dramatic-like. I got into Harry’s room just in time to watch the baby deer and it’s mom walk into the wood, completely out of view.
Damn. I missed them.
Oh well. I stuck my camera out the window and took a pic of some birds. Just so it wouldn’t be a waste of time, right?
Nine Days and Counting
I kept the streak alive by playing some guitar today! Last night I cooked up a song idea in 5/8 time. I thought that rhythmically it was going to be tough to track the guitars today but I finished the whole thing, double tracking too, in about 15 minutes. That’s good for three reasons. One, it kept the streak going. Two, I have a bunch of stuff to do this morning and now have a little more time to do it. Three, I overslept quite a bit today and thought I was going to screw everything up but now I might not have.
Pics!
Plant
The plant that lives on the incredibly dirty window sill in the cellar was about 66% dead last week. I have been watering it regularly and pruning it and trying to keep it alive, and now it has a huge new leaf opening up. It still looks diseased and dying though. I wonder if it’s supposed to.
I also can’t seem to take a decent picture of the little bastard. I should use a camera with a flash but that’s cheating.
Time to Get Back to This
It’s the middle of June. The sun rise is ridiculously early. The weather is almost sort of nice. It’s time. It’s time to start planning morning photography projects again. The summer is just about here and around these parts it doesn’t last long. Yeah, it’s time to get back to it. Film and digital. Let’s get to it, Robert.
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