Project 1 @ Studio 801: Faithful
It's pretty cool, I must say to be behind the wheel driving a pro tools rig. Huge props to Josh for all the help in getting it started. He's the one who gave me the direction for what type of equipment to piece together. But that's another story.
This week, I was able to get together with a couple of different musicians on a couple different days and lay down the sum and bass tracks for one of our original songs that was written at first covenant. That's a pretty big deal for someone who has always enjoyed being in on other people's projects but has waited 17 years to start his own. Yeah, I'm either a huge perfectionist, a bit of a procrastinator, or just too poor to be able to afford doing it on my own. You can choose.
Monday, Brock and I got to work on the drum tracks. He's a great drummer, learned the song the week before, ran through it a couple of times, and voilà. I think we spent more time in setting up and striking the drums than in actual recording but it was so good there wasn't any sense in playing it 100 times. The unfortunate thing is that his next three weeks are pretty solid for work so we may not be getting such a fast start on the next tune.
Tonight, Dave came in to lay down the bass track. The food thing about this was that we've played the song for a year so he was already on top of things. In fact, the first run was pretty good. In fact, it would have been good enough, but I've learned something over time and that's this: good enough is often the enemy of the best. Do you ever find yourself settling for good enough only to come back to the thing a couple weeks later wishing you had done something different? So rather than settle for good enough, we spent some more time going through it until it was magic- everything falling into the pocket.
Next week, we'll be laying down the rhythm guitar, acoustic Gtr, and keyboard tracks. Hopefully by then this cold I'm fighting through will have dissipated and I'll be ready to lay down some vocals with the singers.
I'm discovering some things I've always known but a good serving of humble pie now and then isn't such a bad thing:
1. I don't know it all.
2. Especially when it comes to music
3. Especially when it comes to writing
4. Especially when it comes to recording
5. I don't have the best voice
6. I'm not a great guitar player
7. I'm not a great piano player
8. I'm really not a consistent player
9. I'm really not a perfectionist
10. And that's okay
As long as you know I'm an amateur, then we can have a great time making and recording music together and kerning something about ourselves along the way.
But I'm willing to learn
It's pretty cool, I must say to be behind the wheel driving a pro tools rig. Huge props to Josh for all the help in getting it started. He's the one who gave me the direction for what type of equipment to piece together. But that's another story.
This week, I was able to get together with a couple of different musicians on a couple different days and lay down the sum and bass tracks for one of our original songs that was written at first covenant. That's a pretty big deal for someone who has always enjoyed being in on other people's projects but has waited 17 years to start his own. Yeah, I'm either a huge perfectionist, a bit of a procrastinator, or just too poor to be able to afford doing it on my own. You can choose.
Monday, Brock and I got to work on the drum tracks. He's a great drummer, learned the song the week before, ran through it a couple of times, and voilà. I think we spent more time in setting up and striking the drums than in actual recording but it was so good there wasn't any sense in playing it 100 times. The unfortunate thing is that his next three weeks are pretty solid for work so we may not be getting such a fast start on the next tune.
Tonight, Dave came in to lay down the bass track. The food thing about this was that we've played the song for a year so he was already on top of things. In fact, the first run was pretty good. In fact, it would have been good enough, but I've learned something over time and that's this: good enough is often the enemy of the best. Do you ever find yourself settling for good enough only to come back to the thing a couple weeks later wishing you had done something different? So rather than settle for good enough, we spent some more time going through it until it was magic- everything falling into the pocket.
Next week, we'll be laying down the rhythm guitar, acoustic Gtr, and keyboard tracks. Hopefully by then this cold I'm fighting through will have dissipated and I'll be ready to lay down some vocals with the singers.
I'm discovering some things I've always known but a good serving of humble pie now and then isn't such a bad thing:
1. I don't know it all.
2. Especially when it comes to music
3. Especially when it comes to writing
4. Especially when it comes to recording
5. I don't have the best voice
6. I'm not a great guitar player
7. I'm not a great piano player
8. I'm really not a consistent player
9. I'm really not a perfectionist
10. And that's okay
As long as you know I'm an amateur, then we can have a great time making and recording music together and kerning something about ourselves along the way.
But I'm willing to learn
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