So right now I have three home recording related projects that I just don't have time to work on right now. One is an audition for a friend's comic book based audio drama. Another is a project where three friend's sent me some random audio/music clips that conformed to a particular tempo and key but nobody has heard anything else the others did. My job is to edit it all into something new and hopefully interesting. And there is my own writing/recording that I have been trying to get working on again after nearly a decade off.
Right now though, (and probably into the fall unless something changes) I am the one responsible for taking Gwen to the sitter's everyday before I go to work. I had thought this was only going to be a temporary change for a few weeks, but it has become a more permanent change to the schedule.
So now I have to start making more time to get the stuff she needs done every morning (being fed breakfast, clean clothes, getting the diaper bag packed, etc.) and still manage 45min. or an hour here and there through the week for my projects before it's off to the sitter's and then to work. Weekends are filled up with family stuff and house/yard work. Weeknights are the only chance I get to spend a few minutes of quality time with Steph and Gwen.
I had been relishing the chance to go back to sleep for an hour after Steph went to work, but it appears that if I ever want to pursue my musical and recording interests again, this luxury will have to go by the wayside.
On the plus side, I have managed to write about half the lyrics I need for another new song. Been promising the wife that I would write a song for/about her for over 10 years now, so I should probably make good on that promise huh? LOL
I'm also getting some good ideas going for a re-arrangement of my first tune ever. It's been played the same way for 20 years now and has just gotten so dull to me that it feels lifeless. But I have some ideas that should hopefully make it sound fresh, relevant, and good without losing the essence of what the tune was in the first place.
Just gotta stop hitting snooze I guess.
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"Cold & Lonely Nights"?!?!? Or something else?
ReplyDeleteDat be da one. It turned 20 last Oct. (Cripes has it been that long? Yes, Tim it has.) And it has stayed virtually the same arrangement with everyone playing the same thing all at once for the whole 20 years.
ReplyDeleteIt's just time to freshen it up. I'm going to try slowing the tempo down a hair to give the vocals a little more room to breathe and do some stuff with just the drums and bass during the verses to thin out the arrangement and make the guitars seem more important when they kick in on the chorus. I might come up with a few other tricks along the way.
I don't want to change it too much. It's a cheesy rock tune about a boy who got dumped. No need to add an orchestra and 15 guitar parts while changing the lyrics to something about unicorns and mountain tops. LOL
Are ya keepin' the "wah-ah, wah-ah, wah-ah" part?!?!?
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure. You always played that part wayyyy better than I ever could so we'll see.
ReplyDeleteI still think of that "moment" when we both discovered that part messing with that Wah pedal as one of the greatest moments in rock history!
ReplyDeleteYup. Sitting in Moeller Music in West Chester trying out Crybaby's. Breathed a little bit of new life into the song for awhile, which is what I'm trying to do again.
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