Greetings friends… it is Sunday early evening and I have spent a majority of the snowy cold weekend inside reading, writing, composing, recording, mixing, mastering and then rerecording, remixing and so on and on and on. But by my calendar widget, we have less than 3 days to finish the album in a month as part of the RPM Challenge.
I will save my reaction and pep talk for another post but needless to say its been incredibly fun, challenging and all encompassing to put the music first for the first time in a long time.
Here is yet another song I created today while taking a break from mastering other things. I was talking on the phone and picked up the guitar. While talking a started playing this chord progression. It sort of just came out which is strange for me. Within an hour I had it written and tracked and another hour later it was mixed. Not so sure about the lyrics yet…but this song is all mood. Pretty proud with how it all came together so quickly.
So without further ado… the first mix of Cost of Things.
[audio:https://hellocomein.com/soundbox/hellomusic_mike/CostofThings_v1.mp3]
Maybe because it was cold or because I had long day at work or because of that huge delicious lunch. Suffice to say, nothing productive came out of my two and a half hour long recording\writing session last night. Nothing. It just wasn’t happening and when that’s the case it’s always best to just walk away and do something else. The chords progressions weren’t coming together, the melodies simplistic and unmemorable.