Sunday, November 20, 2022

Recording Week Day 1

Day 1 was pretty productive and went as planned, which tends to be a rarity, to be honest.  I've learned over the years that if I don't start with a bang that my entire week can quickly fizzle.  Since this week started well, I'm remaining hopeful.

Half of the day was really concentrated on the prep.  My day job work had been really hectic all week long as usual so there was really little time to prepare during the week.  Therefore, Day 1 consisted of moving tons of items out of the studio space and off the floor, changing strings on two guitars, setting up the mic's, and so on.  I did finally lay down the acoustic part on "Never Say Never" which had been on my agenda for the past 2-3 months and then laid down the base acoustic track for a very, very old song that used to be called "Mistress of Radiance".  I have no idea what it's called now; that's still TBD.

"Mistress..." is a funny song for me because it's literally one of my oldest and from the very first group of actual songs that I ever wrote, actually from the late 80's.  Now, that group of songs came after writing only in my head (not on an instrument) multiple melodies and such throughout my late childhood years, and then after my very first songs on guitar when I was initially learning to play of  which a) I haven't played since that era for good reason and b) wouldn't ever subject anyone to since they're painfully juvenile and amateur.  After getting through that awkward phase of guitar and childish writing, I came up with an initial group of songs that I just never did anything with, and that's where this one comes from.  Of course, these songs are also rather juvenile, I mean, the original title says it right there, but I've been reworking the lyrics, some of the melodies, and even a bit of the playing style to make it sound more up to date for my work.  I started tinkering with this one about six months ago and was surprised that it actually sounded decent in its reworked form, and hence it has found its way to a recording after a few decades of sitting idol.  I'm not sure what I'll be doing with these tracks yet but I did decide to finally just start getting them down on tape...er, disk.  See?  I'm showing my age right there.

I didn't get enough practice and warm up time before this recording week so I am admittedly struggling slightly with my playing but I think it's good enough to go forward.  I also recently blew the muscle sheath in my pinky finger on my fingering hand and so I'm now also right in the middle of battling constant trigger finger issues in that finger.  I started with trigger finger only on my middle finger a few years ago which surprisingly improved a bit over time but my pinky right now is pretty tough and tight.  I do believe I'll have to get hand surgery at some point in the near future but I'm putting it off as long as possible.  Fun.

I ended the day with the usual On Patrol Live, some video game playing with my sister online, and then with a viewing (or at least starting) of the film "To Leslie" of which I received a screener for.  I was less than impressed with it, and that's disappointing since it sounded right up my alley.  Oh well.

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