Leftover Energy
Thursday, 13 March 2008
Yes, I feel some more creativity coming on...

Indeed, I've already started making steps towards another album. Today I tracked 5 songs' drum parts and almost finished one entirely. Also, I am now using (figured out how to use) FRUITYLOOPS so my drum parts will not sound as bad, but they will still be electronic and I will have full control over them (I used to just plug a keyboard through my amp to make it crunchy, though not always, then into my hardware, then just set the tempo and turn the damn thing on and push the 'drum fill' button as necessary).

In any case, the fretless bass will be a lead instrument on many of the songs and I'm kinda planning on heading the same general direction as last time, with a smattering of punk songs, some noise songs, plenty of accessible indie songs, a ukelele song or two and some surprises.

Since this one has no deadline, I'm going to take it easy, probably finishing about one or two songs per week. So, It should be finished by the summer. Plus, the workload from school has been piling up. Thus, priorities, priorities.

I don't know what to call this new album yet. I figure that will come to me when the time is right. Rough (emphasis on rough) skeletons of about 10 songs are in the works and some of the stuff will be carry-over from the RPM project that I just couldn't finish during February. Rest assured, as soon as I finish something, it will be available for download. Also, I think I should re-mix some of the songs from the first album so that I could actually stand listening to some of them (Stacks Of and Midnight Apocalypso's mix stand out as the worst offenders) and put them on archive.org so that future generations of mankind may hear them long after I've bitten the dust.

So on that upbeat note, be cool and don't let the bedbugs kill your shit, etc.
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  Comments (3)
 1 same here!
Written by Jonathan Hall, on 03-13-2008 08:56
When I finished my RPM album, I was a little burnt out and happy to get it done. So I'm a little surprised that it has actually rekindled my enthusiasm for music. I get home from work and pick up the guitar (after opening a beer of course!). 
 
Last year I started working on an album but got sidetracked. I had a few songs I really liked but also a few that I wasn't so crazy about. Now I've got a handful of new songs from my RPM album to include, though I will re-record them eventually. Overall it feels like an album, and I think it will be way more solid with the new tracks in there. 
 
So this was sort of my intent with signing up. I was hoping to jump start my creative flow, and though I felt my interest waning maybe I just needed a week or two break after February.
 2 This year was different
Written by Dazzleships, on 03-13-2008 11:43
After 2007, I didn't even want to look at a wave form on my machine... this year, I have a hafl-dozen projects I've been noodling with. MY composition skills have improved, and my use of technology is 100% better than '07. Look out '09!
 3 yes!
Written by Night Driving, on 03-14-2008 10:11
im with you both. so enthusiastic, and so much more often with guitar in hand or piano under fingers.

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