April 2012
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Five Colors Now on Spotify! →
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I did a quick and compressed sketch of Three Items...
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March 2012
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This is a brief sketch I made of the first track...
February 2012
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Almost there...
2 and 1/2 recording sessions done…
Countless hours of post-production…
2 mixing sessions done…
And half left to go.
I expect “Five Years” to be completely mixed, mastered and ready for release by the end of the month.
January 2012
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Last Recording Session...
…is tomorrow. Just a quick 4 hours to clean a few things up, and then on Saturday is the (hopefully) last mixing session.
We’re getting close here…
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So one thing this session has not involved is a...
December 2011
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First Mixing Session Tomorrow
Well post-production has been moving along well and I am very much looking forward to my first mixing session tomorrow with Dave Darlington. We’re aiming to get about 5/8 of the tracks done, because some things have to be mixed before they can be finished in post.
Hopefully I’ll have something final to post soon.
In other news, I have a very short session scheduled in the studio in...
November 2011
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October 2011
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Post-Production Update...
So previously I set myself a lofty goal of having everything done by December 31st. Still a lofty goal? Perhaps not…
I recently got in touch with a mixing engineer which has excited and sped up the process of post-production. In addition, a few gigs have encouraged me to practice more and thus get some horn parts down sooner than I had expected.
So, we’ve got two months until my...
July 2011
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Recording Update
So I recently finished my second of two recording sessions. Things went well, and I’m currently in the process of religious take-listening. I’m trying to be sure which takes I want to keep, what I want to do in mixing, as well as think of ideas for post-production.
To be honest I’ve kind of slacked on the post work, but I hope to get back on the wagon this week. The goal...
June 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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“Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And...”
– Billy Corgan
February 2011
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January 2011
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Thoughts on Writing New Beginnings...
In what you could call the ‘chorus’ of New Beginnings, there is a little offset trick done. The melody is a three-bar phrase, while the harmony is a four-bar phrase. Thus, it takes 14 bars for the end of the melody phrase to coincide with the end of the harmonic phrase, at which point the melody has been repeated 4 times and the harmony 3 times.
This was not a conscious decision on my part, but...
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My Purpose Here...
I have been composing, producing and performing music for a long time now. But in the near future I plan to finalize many “works in progress.” In this blog I hope to document the process, including both what is yet to develop and what has already happened.
In anticipation of any final mixes of each song, I will be posting sketches, live performances, rough mixes, alternate takes, and...
