Posts Tagged ‘hooray’

Building Fences (updated)

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

This isn’t game-related at all, but I might as well put it somewhere!

For many years, I have been writing and recording songs for no real purpose other than my own recreation. It’s always been out of my own apartment, which means it’s a fairly lo-fi, amateur endeavor. This is fine, except that it precludes drums, which I can’t keep in my apartment because neighbors apparently just don’t have the ear to appreciate them.

Anyway, today I was able to go over to a buddy’s apartment and lay down some drum tracks for a few songs (his neighbors must be more enlightened than mine). It’s the first time I’ve actually committed drums to a recording of mine, and I think it could have turned out better, but it’s just nice to finally have been able to actually get all the intended parts in there for once.

On this track, in all, I play acoustic guitar, piano, drums, and keyboard, along with vocals. Everything except the drums was recorded over a year ago as I recall (without a metronome, which made today an exasperating exercise).

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Update: I have added some vocal harmony here and there, and adjusted some slight timing issues with the drum track.