Studio Diary 6

Current mood:  good

Well, I missed a day, but a brief recap: Yesterday we layed down the majority of the guitar parts for “Movin’ to the West Coast”, and also a couple for the untitled track. Today, Allen and I started out attempting to write lyrics for the untitled track, but that didn’t quite work out. So, I’m just going to work on them on my own tomorrow. Today turned out to be quite a productive day. We packed up most of the recording gear and moved into the church that’s near Allen’s parents’ place, and hooked everything up in the altar, just like we did last year for the piano parts for “Summer” and “Spend My Time”. We spent the majority of today practicing, trying out, and then eventually recording piano parts for the three songs. In addition, for the 3rd song, which will be the closer on the record, I decided to go with the very short and sweet catchy track as opposed to the more adventurous one. I realized that if I had tried to do the adventurous one, it would be a lot of work, and I may end up taking shortcuts to complete it. In that regard, I’d be selling the song short, because I don’t have very much time to arrange it, record it, and write the lyrics for it. So I’m going to wait on it. This other one, is one that I have demoed before…it’s quite simple and short, but I feel that it ends the record on a nice, and hopeful note. Things should play out nicely, I’m confident with my decision now. We packed up and left the church around 8pm, and then went back to the studio and worked on vocals after eating a later dinner. Had a couple beers before doing my vocals for “West Coast”, and I must say that I got some pretty decent takes. Good to the point where I feel that any sort of pitch-correction will be unecessary. ooooooh. we’ll see, i’ll be listening to it tomorrow and i’ll have a better idea. But the vibe was definitely there. Afterwards, we tried to tackle the closing track, but I wasn’t vibing on that one tonite. All in all, a very productive day. We are approaching the home stretch, and things are really shaping up. Tomorrow….lyrics lyrics lyrics…and then hopefully lead vocals in the evening. Till then…