Switch Gears
Yesterday saw the completion, FINALLY, of 'Quiet As It's Kept', which actually ended almost exactly the way I wanted it to: I just woke up, turned on the mic, and recorded the appropriate takes needed for the vocal part. I used a really breathy tone on low notes at the bottom of my range, and the consonants really pop, and overall I'm really happy that it sets a certain mood before the prechorus jumps in and fucks it all up the way it's supposed to. I'm really fucking surprised by that song, it's almost like I can listen to it without knowing it's mine.
So now begins the pre-production process for Use Your Allusion II. I think for today, I'm going to skip 'Repiphanies' and work on recording scratch guitars for 'song 47', 'Ourselves Alone', 'She Saw God', 'Big Sur', and 'Losing Sleep to Slaughter', the five songs I haven't finished just yet. This will allow me to sit down tomorrow and start working on drums for everything, and to start finalizing what I want on the aforementioned 'Repiphanies'.
Which, is going to be a bitch. On the one hand, I have the image of that song in mind that requires a giant 'Given to Fly'-style crescendo, almost like a wave that you have to ride to the end of the song. That presents the problem of, I haven't written a fucking thing for that version of the song other than the verses, and to be honest I'm running out of time on that. I've had the stem for five years now, if it was going to happen, it already would have. The other hand is the cards I've been dealt: the two warring parts of the verse and the prechorus/chorus that just don't seem to want to marry together. I'll record these as the scratch guitars at 106 bpm and see how they play together on record. The bonus to this latter option is that I'm already halfway through the chorus lyrics, which is always the worst part for me, for whatever reason.
So now begins the pre-production process for Use Your Allusion II. I think for today, I'm going to skip 'Repiphanies' and work on recording scratch guitars for 'song 47', 'Ourselves Alone', 'She Saw God', 'Big Sur', and 'Losing Sleep to Slaughter', the five songs I haven't finished just yet. This will allow me to sit down tomorrow and start working on drums for everything, and to start finalizing what I want on the aforementioned 'Repiphanies'.
Which, is going to be a bitch. On the one hand, I have the image of that song in mind that requires a giant 'Given to Fly'-style crescendo, almost like a wave that you have to ride to the end of the song. That presents the problem of, I haven't written a fucking thing for that version of the song other than the verses, and to be honest I'm running out of time on that. I've had the stem for five years now, if it was going to happen, it already would have. The other hand is the cards I've been dealt: the two warring parts of the verse and the prechorus/chorus that just don't seem to want to marry together. I'll record these as the scratch guitars at 106 bpm and see how they play together on record. The bonus to this latter option is that I'm already halfway through the chorus lyrics, which is always the worst part for me, for whatever reason.