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Productive Day
Feb. 21st, 2012 06:12 pmI have spent some time mixing today and managed to finish Oak and Ash. I have one more song recorded and one partially recorded that could be mixed, and one where I might be able to salvage the scratch track by mixing. And I have eight songs that I need to record. So I'm making good progress there. Hoping to finish by June. And if all goes really well, maybe I'll have a second album done by Quarter Tone, but that might be a trifle over-ambitious.
I have spent several sessions today working on learning to play the iPod occarina harmony part for a song I wrote for some Eve Online players called the Ballad of Hal. They liked the lyrics, and I've been recording at home--I've got the octave mando and vocals recorded but I thought it needed something more, and the iPod occarina is a spacer's sort of instrument--something that takes up no room to speak of, and can be pulled out of a pocket to noodle on during long journeys. So I wrote out an occarina part but the catch is now I have to get good enough to play it at speed and make it sound like music. I do this to myself. But 1) I'm making progress and 2) Reaper is a big help with making something sound like it was played by someone who knew what she was doing, so maybe I'll be able to finish that up tomorrow.
I entered Villain's cat and its harmony (finished entering, actually; I just had the bridge left to do) into Finale to make sheet music.
And I put together a combination of the mixed stuff and Alice Day versions of stuff I don't have recorded yet to make a proto-album so I can start thinking about track order. It is 20 songs, currently about 56 minutes, but that will probably change as Alice Day versions are re-recorded in the studio. This move made for a big change in my perception of the album, because it is now longer than my usual walk and "more music than I can walk to" is somehow some kind of boundary.
I had been planning not to record on Friday but I am beginning to wonder if that is a good idea; at this rate I will run out of stuff to mix before my next recording session, Friday after next.
I have spent several sessions today working on learning to play the iPod occarina harmony part for a song I wrote for some Eve Online players called the Ballad of Hal. They liked the lyrics, and I've been recording at home--I've got the octave mando and vocals recorded but I thought it needed something more, and the iPod occarina is a spacer's sort of instrument--something that takes up no room to speak of, and can be pulled out of a pocket to noodle on during long journeys. So I wrote out an occarina part but the catch is now I have to get good enough to play it at speed and make it sound like music. I do this to myself. But 1) I'm making progress and 2) Reaper is a big help with making something sound like it was played by someone who knew what she was doing, so maybe I'll be able to finish that up tomorrow.
I entered Villain's cat and its harmony (finished entering, actually; I just had the bridge left to do) into Finale to make sheet music.
And I put together a combination of the mixed stuff and Alice Day versions of stuff I don't have recorded yet to make a proto-album so I can start thinking about track order. It is 20 songs, currently about 56 minutes, but that will probably change as Alice Day versions are re-recorded in the studio. This move made for a big change in my perception of the album, because it is now longer than my usual walk and "more music than I can walk to" is somehow some kind of boundary.
I had been planning not to record on Friday but I am beginning to wonder if that is a good idea; at this rate I will run out of stuff to mix before my next recording session, Friday after next.
