o t h e r t i m e

it occurs to me that i should really post more often during the process of producing this new album. i have started the process of taking my sketches and re-recording them for an actual release. i’m fairly serious about this collection, so i’m giving myself time to really take care of business when it comes to getting them put together. this poses several challenges for me.

first off, i set an arbitrary release date based on what i thought i could do in a week. i’m quite behind. this doesn’t really phase me since, well, i’m the only one who is perturbed by my tardiness but at the same time, i’d like to hit a deadline once in my life. the reasons for not being on schedule are fairly simple: i don’t have a lot of practice time and i hate editing. this means that i’m stuck in the infinite loop of needing to do it right in one take with little practice. not an easy task, i must say. but all of this is purely technical. it’s easily solved. i need to spend more of my time practicing when i’m sitting around in Jax’s room watching him build towers out of soft blocks and anything that doesn’t move.

my other “problem” is the inspiration that i draw from the instruments that i own. one of the simpler sketches got out of hand with the dobro. i’ve been stuck on that one for a while because my intonation has issues and…well…see that part above about not practicing. and then there’s the mandolin. every time i pick it up i feel the urge to work it into something. so i have. and i think it’s even effective this time! so a lot of my “solo” guitar pieces are blooming into multi-instrumental extravaganzas. i’m really happy with that, but developments like this kill timelines.

the whole reason the deadline exists is to push things forward. it’s all mental slight of hand. i’m really pleased with my results so far and when i listen to my rough mixes on the drive to work in the morning i sometimes catch myself thinking “wow! i did that?!” cool stuff.

when it’s all wrapped up, i will be doing something new with the site. i’m actually going to push this recording. the last album made enough to cover its costs which i thought was pretty huge. i’m hoping that i can branch out from the friends and family crowd with this one. i’m not counting on it, but i think it’d be nice. i want to be a part of this great internet publishing revolution too!