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Yesterday I laid down four scratch tracks. Yesterday and today I rendered everything to mp3s (all topping out at -3dB volume-wise) with count-ins, moved them all into an iTunes playlist that got sorted into the order I intend to have them on the CD, and then went on my iPod and my iPad (on the iPad the scratch tracks can be matched up to their sheet music in ForScore so I can make playing with the scratch track part of my daily practice).
Now I need to 1) listen through everything in order and think about whether that order works for the CD 2) practice playing along to each scratch track with particular attention paid, at least to start with, to the four I hope to track in my recording session Wednesday. (Realistically I hope to track 2--being ready to track 4 is what my former research advisor used to call "armed reconaissance"--you proceed to a set point then farther until you hit too much resistance to continue.) Hopefully I won't need to 3) re-scratch track anything I can't play along to properly. But we will see.
Also I need to decide which 4 things I want to have ready to track, and work out any arrangements for them I haven't already done. I got a lot done this weekend and I'm glad but I think I have a lot still to do.
On the other hand I have now been doing 20 minutes practice per instrument per day (roughly) for about a year and a half, and I am *so* much better at this than I was when I set out to record _The King's Lute_. Which is good because I need to be able to play when I'm standing in front of the mic trying to keep from swaying in and out of the "sweet spot" and also to not touch the mic stand or mic cord with my fretting hand.
Now I need to 1) listen through everything in order and think about whether that order works for the CD 2) practice playing along to each scratch track with particular attention paid, at least to start with, to the four I hope to track in my recording session Wednesday. (Realistically I hope to track 2--being ready to track 4 is what my former research advisor used to call "armed reconaissance"--you proceed to a set point then farther until you hit too much resistance to continue.) Hopefully I won't need to 3) re-scratch track anything I can't play along to properly. But we will see.
Also I need to decide which 4 things I want to have ready to track, and work out any arrangements for them I haven't already done. I got a lot done this weekend and I'm glad but I think I have a lot still to do.
On the other hand I have now been doing 20 minutes practice per instrument per day (roughly) for about a year and a half, and I am *so* much better at this than I was when I set out to record _The King's Lute_. Which is good because I need to be able to play when I'm standing in front of the mic trying to keep from swaying in and out of the "sweet spot" and also to not touch the mic stand or mic cord with my fretting hand.
