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waitingman) wrote2023-07-31 09:55 pm
waitingman) wrote2023-07-31 09:55 pm
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Have A Musical Day
Sunday 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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