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Of Weddings and Sicknesses10/16/2022 The third week of Genius Hour came with it a few complications. At the beginning of this week, I presumed that the only thing that would keep me from getting recording work done was my wife's cousin's wedding. And then I got sick.
That sounded much more ominous than intended. I'm fine, but I did end up missing the wedding because whatever 24-hour something that entered my system completely drained me of energy. And you'd think that maybe I could have taken advantage of that by taking some time while left at my wife's grandmother's place to do some recording, but I didn't bring any of my equipment with me since I presumed I would be too busy to work on any music. Oh well. Live and learn. So, as this week is ending, I'm taking some time to reflect on what I've accomplished so far. For whatever reason, it was really difficult for me to settle on a continuation of this project this semester. I think part of it is because my efforts at songwriting really left me feeling unfulfilled when I completed my last project. I struggled to write complete versions of songs that I felt proud of, both from a writing and recording standpoint. This is partially why I've generally been trying to focus on recording covers this time around, and while I've made some progress by getting most of the instrumental sections recorded of "Nightmare" by Avenged Sevenfold, I feel like I'm hitting a bit of an impasse that's putting into focus the limitations of my skills. To address this problem, my plan this week is to at least use my guitar to record an approximation of the song's vocals and track the bass on top of that. I may end up then giving this song a rest on the recording front for a bit while I work up the solo. Following this, I will likely move on to recording another song just to keep practicing with capturing different tones. My wife has recently mentioned to me a sort of challenge she'd like us to complete where we work on playing a new song together every week. Perhaps as I'm working up these songs for jamming with her I can also try to get some good quality recordings created of those tracks. From there, I have a chance of being able to capture her vocals, which could definitely be fun. We'll see how that goes. Tune in next week to see what happens.
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dawn
10/19/2022 03:21:30 pm
whaattt you missed the wedding ? that must've felt awful !
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