It’s snowing out and the music is done!

I’m happy to report that the music portion of the album is now complete! I have finished all the music tracks and now am on to finishing lyrics and final vocal takes.

I was listening to all the songs last night on my I-pod. I’ve talked before of needing some distance from the songs so they sound like songs to me. When I first write them, they never quite seem ‘real’ to me. Well I guess enough time has passed because as I was listening I was able to hear them as a record and not my songs for the first time. So this is kind of how this phase goes for me: listen to the songs A LOT. Screw around with vocal rhythms, notes, harmonies. Listen more. Pick out the phrases that will form the lyrics, tweak words. Listen more. Finally record the vocals. Then the last part starts. Mixing. Well, ok, almost the last part. Because then I need to put the songs into some kind of order for the CD that makes sense. This has a lot to do with what songs sound good next to eachother, the ’story’ being told and the flow of the album. Just like songs have sections and build or drops, intense moments and lighter times, the over all album should reflect this too. I’m already playing with this in my preliminary listening, but I can’t really finsh this part until I have all the lyrics.

So over the next couple days I’ll be posting up some demos on the webpage that may or may not have ‘lyrics’ to them. Check em out.

I’m gonna take the dogs out into the snow storm and let them run around while I listen to the songs. Have a great holiday!

peace
Mike