is what it is...*

giovanna has to audition for vocal club. she picked "am i not pretty enough" by kasey chambers. without being asked, i recorded a instrumental track this afternoon for giovanna to sing against. it is sloppy, i will have to clean it up, but it is what it is...

1. pretty
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day after *

had fun at lorie's party yesterday. everyone bailed today, so I took one of the three ideas from this week and started on one. i think i have to kick up the tempo a tad, will re-record tomorrow...

1. avon
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waking up again *

things been quiet! haven't done much, not been in a good mood to create for a while... i bought some new amp models, nice guitar sounds, i was fooling around playing guitar and enjoying it. i recorded 3 different riff fragments in one session and am posting the recordings here.

1. 3 new ideas
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now closer *

i redid the vocal. this is a lot closer to what i want. also added a little lead guitar snippet. i will stop fooling around with this, after all; it is a cover.

1. whatever happened
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peel the veil *

i listened to yesterday's mix on the way back and forth to work. it sounded too muddled. the original idea had to make it an acoustic copy, but somehow the damn electrics had found their way in again!

so today i went to mix it into just acoustics, bass and vocal. i ended up taking out the acoustics entirely, bringing the electrics way down, and the vocal way up. i took out the yet on the chorus cause liz don't like it.

now i can hear every uncomfortable word of my vocal, and hear my wavering pitch to perfection! but i do like the song betterer.

1. whatever happened
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whatever happened? *

i was listening an earlier strokes record, and decided to do a cover of a song on it today. its not what i expected. but it is a cover.

on monday, i added two melody reinforcment guitars ie: lead passages, and did a slight remix with the added guitars.

1. whatever happened
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ballad? *

everybody bailed, i am using my alone time carefully. i am hemingway creating. i have a gloria cubana maduro wavell, a pitcher of martoonis, a pile of beans that i have ground and boiled, and an acoustic guitar. i wrote a little ditty in an inspired 300 seconds. I learned the progression, (ok, it wasn't that difficult!), and am figuring out the flow of the tune, trying b sections, and bridges. don't have anything yet, but this is the fragment i am starting with...

1. ballad demo
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