The week that wasn't. mondays post... up on tuesday.

Hullo readers! :D

It has been a WHILE since my last entry so I’ll have to play catchup for a while until i manage to get to what i did today, fortunately for the impatient amongst you; the rest of last week was painfully slow, compared to how productively it started. In the interest of fairness to all other forces involved, it was mainly my fault that much didn’t get done after that, due to a generally good time being had in the flat and a positive wad of good stuff on and around the television. As you may have seen I finished the piano part and last week I bounced that all to audio, which means that that’s done and dusted and I don’t have to touch that now until the mixy-mixing stage.

So that’s 2 Piano Lines and a very minimal String line finished. Holla! That’s another crossout! Also I bought potatoes and decided to make it a download, rather than a CD to cut expenses and make it easier to get, so I can cross those off too! Let’s go over to the chart...

As I was feeling so very ahead of myself at the end of last week I decided to get started on what I had scheduled for this week, which proved nothing other than the fact that I am useless at following schedules, even when I make them myself :S, although I did get a massively satisfying chunk of this week’s work done in the aftermath of last weeks work-void. So looking back on the timetable I made:

It should now look something more like this:

Now you add a few lines...

Voila! Frank Zappa. Prog is truly everywhere.

Due to this mass of overlapping and cunningly hidden moustaches I have now programmed all of the drums, completely doing away with the rubbish ones I did on the guide tracks with a familiar ‘what was I thinking?’ fervour. Made a drum line? Programmed a drum line? Let’s see if it’s on the chart... Woo! More crossing out. I really should have instituted some kind of gold stars system.
So that’s all the catch-upping done, with a bit of drumming on the side for good measure. I was pleasantly surprised this week to find that the studio I booked was the very same one me and Dean had filmed in a previous blog, which gave me one of those lovely familiar homey feelings, and for old time’s sake I decided to invite Dean to join me to witness some more of the chaos that this project is turning into. Mind you, it’s the good kind of chaos, like falling out of a helicopter into the playboy mansion.

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(dont worry, that was a joke, im not trying to blog porn.)

Although after a while the devil took over and I picked up my trusty guitar and had a lovely noodle over the track. I have a feeling it’s not going to be in the final mix, but who knows, I might release bonus tracks featuring unnecessarily LARGE solos. This did give me insight into the lead guitar part for the end, though and after messing around with the little guitar line over the last chorus I decided to harmonise it Queen style. Which meant working out a four part harmony line and playing them all in. I won’t lie, it sounded ace. I’m seriously considering whacking it in, as I had an epiphany at the end of today’s session and decided to keep the ridiculously epic huge ending section with the fabled MS patch and a brilliant sample I found called MIGHTY ORGAN! This is gonna be so loud it’s going to shake the actual concept of Christmas.

Peace!