Finally! A productive weekend! I knew one of these days it would happen. I lightly promised myself last year when I started working on the "jazz machine" album that I would get it done within one year's worth of time (which would be a first for me), and with the deadline now in the not too distant future, I was beginning to sweat a bit. I have a rough list of what I need to get done on it and the list IS dwindling, however I still have one track that needs some serious work so all attention must turn to focus on that particular issue.
Work on "Didn't I Tell You?", my most recently composed track on the album, did commence this weekend and the track is sounding pretty good. It's not exactly finished, per se, but it's in a spot where I feel comfortable with it. My soloing went well this weekend and I completed it in a more true fashion, where I improvised the whole thing and then just did some polishing of it here and there. That's the approach I want to be able to take more in the future but I still have some mountains to climb in order to get there. The only other thing I'll say about it is that, while the solo and playing are great, I haven't yet found the right spot for it to sit in the mix so I'll need to tweak that a bit. Apart from this task, I also finally fixed the intro lead guitar on the track "Tonight, You Reached Me" since there was just something about it that didn't sound quite right to me. I had thought it was the drum; I think in the end it was that the guitar part was too complex that early in the song, and so I simply kept dumbing it down until it sounded right. Weird, and once again, I had to pull back on how much I'm playing.
Besides music related news, I'm also now fully vaxxed! The second vax hit me semi-hard and kept me off my feet on Friday so I of course was concerned that it would screw up yet another weekend of mine. It didn't so all was good in the nd. I will add that I still can't believe how much my arm hurt once the sick feeling was pulsing through my body. It literally felt like someone had put a bullet into my arm and it made me check more than once, just in case.
Per checking my notes yesterday, it looks like I started the "jazz machine" sessions around 8/9/2020 so I actually have more time than I thought. For some reason, I thought I started recording last July but maybe I did the writing sessions then? Who knows. The answer's probably in this very blog somewhere and I'm simply too lazy to go look for it.
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