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A "Nightmare" Experience10/9/2022 Welcome back to the second week of this semester's Genius Hour experience. My goal this time around is decidedly less intense than the one I set for myself previously to exclusively record original music. And none of this is to say that I don't still want to leave room to work on original pieces, but listening back to much of what I have written and recorded already has not left me feeling particularly accomplished.
So the goal this past week was to prepare myself for really tackling this project in earnest. To that end, I decided to take some time to re-establish a baseline for my skills when it comes to recording music in general. I had recently been on a bit of an Avenged Sevenfold kick and decided I would make an effort to record a bit of their 2010 song "Nightmare" off the album of the same name. As of this week, I have recorded all the rhythm guitar parts and programmed the drums. Being that I am not a particularly talented singer (and by that I mean I'm not good at all), my next plan is to use my guitar to layer in the vocal melodies and put on top of that the bass part before learning the solos. From a performance standpoint, the solos will be the most difficult piece of the recording, but ultimately this project is not just about improving my playing; it's about making the recordings themselves sound more professional overall. Once I have completed this recording just going off the skills I have currently developed, I will plan to start going back through the Home Studio Master Class to get more specific feedback on the skills I need to work on to make my recordings sound better overall.
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