Tuesday, May 5, 2020

which one is which?



    TUESDAY 5/5/2020 5:PM--of the four other members of the FHB, one of them wants me out, one of them wants me in and two could go either way...aside from being kinda curious as to which one is which, mostly it hurts--WAY LOTS...I should mention that although the FHB was probably the band I was least embarrassed to be in, I wasn't as happy as I wanted to be, or thought I should be...the band that I had the most fun playing in was the one led by Stu Judd...*I* think our political differences affected him more than they affected me...I never hear from him, but then I never hear from anyone...
7:43 PM--I think the FHB is considering kicking me out...I'm OK with that...If the quarantine ended tomorrow, I wouldn't care...I guess my Musical future will be lived in the basement...there won't be any money in it...
8:00 PM-I keep coming back to the idea that maybe I’m not as talented as I think I am... On a scale of 1 to 10, I think I give myself a six maybe a seven… I think I can still play drums, I can play bass and I can sing and I can play guitar I can even play a little bit of keyboards… Doesn’t that ad up to “moderately talented” ?
11PM--a few parts of SUGAR MTN needed fixing...just finished doing some of that, but I accidently moved the snare drum...gonna try to work around that screw=up tomorrow...
WEDNESDAY 5/6/2020 NOON--SUGAR MTN is as finished as I can make it...I tried to do three different mixes, but two of them died--*I* dunno why...the mix that has survived sound OK in the car...next up? a reggae version of BABY'S IN BLACK, maybe....
5:12 PM--five minutes of Reggae drum patterns are in my itunes library...I got it from youTube...I THINK I can play it on my portable CD player and feed that signal into the BR-1180...THAT would be a technological advancement for me, if I can pull it off...or I can study the patterns and hope for the best...in other news, I haven't heard from the members of the FHB lately...*I* think my tenure in the Band has ended--and I'm not crying...
9:14 PM--I think I can, if I have to, use a song by David Lindley as a rhythmic template...we'll see...
THURSDAY 5/7/2020 11:20 AM--I created a 30 second reggae drum track...IF I can do it I will have to manually loop it about 12 times and then (hopefully) build my arrangement of BABY'S IN BLACK around it...if it doesn't work, I'll have to come up with an alternative method for creating a reggae rhythm track...I think what I'm gonna try to is record the kick drum and hi-hat (and percussion) SEPARATELY , mix those tracks down, make a CD outta THAT and feed the CD back into one (or two?) of the remaining tracks--if THAT doesn't work, I'll give up on the reggae idea...
5:35 PM--unbelieveably my idea worked...the hi-hat and kick take up two tracks, the vocals will take up three, the keyboard takes one, which leaves two tracks...one for Bass and one for guitar...I think this means maybe I can mix everything down to 9/10, burn a CD, and import THAT back into the BR1180, which could give me a couple more tracks to play with...that would be great...I'll try to work on it sometime tomorrow hopefully...I did some scratch vocals that I don't intend to keep, just to hear what the harmonies will sound like...

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