February - What Holds The World Together?

My wife asked me to compose a happier song. Done.

10:00 p.m. - Today I had my bi-weekly scifi writing group, so first contact with my One Day One Song challenge took until almost the end of the day. Scary: the whole song writing, including almost complete lyrics in one go took less than fifteen minutes.

10:15 p.m. - As it’s already late, I decided not to make this a band thing, just go for bare bones. The guitar track is a bit too playful and remains sketchy in many places. Good enough has its limits. The vocals had a bit of rehearsing to get the tone right. Third time runthrough was the good one.

10:45 p.m. - First listen with compressor, limiter and some EQ adjustments. There is something missing, some spice as both the guitar and the vocals are mono and centered (spell: boring). Did the piano tinkerings.

11:10 p.m - final mixing run. Final listen.

11:15 p.m. - Song done.

Today’s learnings:

Less itchy fingers when laying a base guitar track - it comes back to haunt you during mixing.