Have A Musical Day
Jul. 31st, 2023 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanSunday was my only day off this week, for the 2nd week in a row, I don't think I'm really cut out for 6 day weeks any more... was I ever? Especially when the Saturdays have been spent in the Showroom, not out doing what I'm employed to do. At least I now know that when my Employer complains that when I have both weekend days off, he has to do Saturdays on his own & I'm supposed to feel sympathy that he's there with no one else, that he's being honest... he's there with no one else!! the 2 Saturdays I worked recently have been absolutely dead... to the point where I could have made significant inroads into 'War & Peace' , or even 'Ulysses' in the amount of time I spent just sitting around clock-watching. I have the next 2 weekends off & absolutely zero fucks will be given about it
L-SP was also working both days of the weekend, so yesterday was a chance to catch up with my newest musical partner - my only guitar student, who has now surpassed any need for me to show him things & it's become more of a meeting of techniques. He wanted to pick my brain about approaches to songwriting & we ended up writing a few things together that he's looking forward to tinkering with & re-arranging. I'm looking forward to hearing the results, as it will mark the 1st recording project that I've used my custom 12-string acoustic on... & even recorded with a very basic set-up, it sounded pretty good, which made all the double-grooved indentations on my fingers worth it... it's obviously been a little too long since I did any serious playing!!
From there, I headed across town & across the years, for a mixing session with my oldest musical partner, with whom I formed Pelican Daughters in 1984. With the completed album now looking like it won't be out 'til the end of the year at best, we've continued on & yesterday did 3 mixes of a new track which I'd recorded all the instrumentation for a few weeks back & left with my cohort to arrange, insert an array of field-recorded samples & add whatever took his fancy. I was seriously impressed with his work on this one & had only a couple of suggestions for changes, before we ran the drum tracks through my guitar effects unit to add some atmospheres. Mix 3 was my pick of them & I'll post a link for anyone remotely curious as soon as we upload it...
What a difference a day spent in the company of musicians can make... I came home last night floating on a little cushion of air, after a day spent stretching my creativity in 2 supportive environments
L-SP was also working both days of the weekend, so yesterday was a chance to catch up with my newest musical partner - my only guitar student, who has now surpassed any need for me to show him things & it's become more of a meeting of techniques. He wanted to pick my brain about approaches to songwriting & we ended up writing a few things together that he's looking forward to tinkering with & re-arranging. I'm looking forward to hearing the results, as it will mark the 1st recording project that I've used my custom 12-string acoustic on... & even recorded with a very basic set-up, it sounded pretty good, which made all the double-grooved indentations on my fingers worth it... it's obviously been a little too long since I did any serious playing!!
From there, I headed across town & across the years, for a mixing session with my oldest musical partner, with whom I formed Pelican Daughters in 1984. With the completed album now looking like it won't be out 'til the end of the year at best, we've continued on & yesterday did 3 mixes of a new track which I'd recorded all the instrumentation for a few weeks back & left with my cohort to arrange, insert an array of field-recorded samples & add whatever took his fancy. I was seriously impressed with his work on this one & had only a couple of suggestions for changes, before we ran the drum tracks through my guitar effects unit to add some atmospheres. Mix 3 was my pick of them & I'll post a link for anyone remotely curious as soon as we upload it...
What a difference a day spent in the company of musicians can make... I came home last night floating on a little cushion of air, after a day spent stretching my creativity in 2 supportive environments
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Date: 2023-07-31 03:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-07-31 06:52 pm (UTC)I wonder why your boss doesn't just hire someone at a rock bottom rate of pay to come and keep him company in the absolutely dead showroom on the weekends, instead of making you come in. It doesn't sound like your expertise is really needed for that.