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Music and stuff
Feb. 24th, 2011 09:55 amSo as I mentioned, I went to Patternbuilder's house last weekend, and had a lovely time, and one of the upshots of that was that 1) I started thinking about a new album and 2) I promised Patternbuilder a new song (new to her anyway) every couple of weeks to give her a periodic poke in the "interest in singing filk" department.
And the upshot of that is that I got a little nervous yesterday that I wasn't going to make my couple-of-week deadline for the first shipment, so I did a little more work on the rattlesnake song, and printed it out with spaces between the lines (my usual way of starting arrangements) and took it into the music room and set chords to it. And played it some. And came up with a verse melody because having the same not terribly inspired melody for the verse and the chorus was getting to be a bit much, or maybe a bit little. And played it some more. So it's a bit more finished, and has a bit of an arrangement, and I'm not guaranteeing that it won't change some more before Friday-after-next (which is its release-to-Patternbuilder date, unless I come up with something better between now and then) but it's up and dressed and fit to go out of the house, I think. Sheet music, chords on the lyric sheet, and a study mp3 would be reasonable next steps.
Plus I've been thinking about, you know, recording, which means, with the multitracking capability the Zoom has, I could obviously play more than one instrument, or one instrument more than one way, to accompany a song (plus people are going to get mighty tired of the strum-the-octave-mandolin method that is the quick-and-dirty arrangement method I fall back on in a lot of cases.) So I've been thinking about things like, could I accompany this with crosspicking instead (think fingerpicking pattern handled by flat pick, for those who are interested.) Would it be good to use the octave mando for something and the mando for some things?
I haven't thought that way in a long time. Arrangements are happening. More practice will be necessary.
Also I need to start recording stuff, even just at home, to get back into the planning-what-order-to-record mindset and also to try out the bells and whistles of Garageband.
And I cut four stations yesterday and traced four more, but I probably should get on finishing that.
And, in other news, this morning brought the first rain-in-daylight in a long time, and I threw a raincoat over my bathrobe and slogged around the house to see if my gutter extensions are working. The answer is "sort of." Specifically I have discovered one of my downspouts is not draining as much water as I would expect, and water is fountaining out of the top downspout joint and running down the side of the house. And that gutter is dripping badly, probably because it is brim-full because it is not draining--perhaps because there is a plug of leaves or something halfway down the downspout in question. I may be able to fix it myself; we will see.
And the upshot of that is that I got a little nervous yesterday that I wasn't going to make my couple-of-week deadline for the first shipment, so I did a little more work on the rattlesnake song, and printed it out with spaces between the lines (my usual way of starting arrangements) and took it into the music room and set chords to it. And played it some. And came up with a verse melody because having the same not terribly inspired melody for the verse and the chorus was getting to be a bit much, or maybe a bit little. And played it some more. So it's a bit more finished, and has a bit of an arrangement, and I'm not guaranteeing that it won't change some more before Friday-after-next (which is its release-to-Patternbuilder date, unless I come up with something better between now and then) but it's up and dressed and fit to go out of the house, I think. Sheet music, chords on the lyric sheet, and a study mp3 would be reasonable next steps.
Plus I've been thinking about, you know, recording, which means, with the multitracking capability the Zoom has, I could obviously play more than one instrument, or one instrument more than one way, to accompany a song (plus people are going to get mighty tired of the strum-the-octave-mandolin method that is the quick-and-dirty arrangement method I fall back on in a lot of cases.) So I've been thinking about things like, could I accompany this with crosspicking instead (think fingerpicking pattern handled by flat pick, for those who are interested.) Would it be good to use the octave mando for something and the mando for some things?
I haven't thought that way in a long time. Arrangements are happening. More practice will be necessary.
Also I need to start recording stuff, even just at home, to get back into the planning-what-order-to-record mindset and also to try out the bells and whistles of Garageband.
And I cut four stations yesterday and traced four more, but I probably should get on finishing that.
And, in other news, this morning brought the first rain-in-daylight in a long time, and I threw a raincoat over my bathrobe and slogged around the house to see if my gutter extensions are working. The answer is "sort of." Specifically I have discovered one of my downspouts is not draining as much water as I would expect, and water is fountaining out of the top downspout joint and running down the side of the house. And that gutter is dripping badly, probably because it is brim-full because it is not draining--perhaps because there is a plug of leaves or something halfway down the downspout in question. I may be able to fix it myself; we will see.
