The Big Day Approaches...
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It has been months in the planning. In fact, it has been something I’ve been dreaming about for years. And this coming Saturday it is finally happening. This coming Saturday I have 8 hours of time booked in a great local recording studio to put down five tracks for my band’s first EP.
I have been working so hard getting everything ready, planning the sessions, rehearsing the songs over and over and over, organising the artwork, the website, copyright paperwork, distribution (which we’re still trying to sort out), launch shows etc. The list is just too bloody long consequently I really haven’t had time to think about the impending day itself.
But I’m excited. I’m having fun getting all the elements together and I have a good feeling about this project. Unlike just about everything else musical I’ve been involved in, this particular project seems to be coming together really organically and easy. I feel blessed to have had some truly wonderfully talented people become involved in this because they see it as a worthy venture. It makes me want to jump for joy, to whoop and holler from the highest building, dance a mad jig and shout it to the top. But I can’t just yet.
This next stage is crucial. We have to make every second of the time we have count. Some have said 8 hours won’t be long enough. Others have said 8 hours might be too much. Still others have questioned us paying to do this at all, given I’ve got a pretty good home studio. But we’re happy to be doing this and at the end of the day, this is all that matters.
Half the tracks are already recorded and ready to be loaded up into the ProTools suite at the studio. The band is about as rehearsed as we’re ever going to be (even though we are having a final rehearsal tomorrow evening). Time lines are prepared and printed; lists have been checked twice and twice again. We’re as ready as we’re ever going to be.
I have been working so hard getting everything ready, planning the sessions, rehearsing the songs over and over and over, organising the artwork, the website, copyright paperwork, distribution (which we’re still trying to sort out), launch shows etc. The list is just too bloody long consequently I really haven’t had time to think about the impending day itself.
But I’m excited. I’m having fun getting all the elements together and I have a good feeling about this project. Unlike just about everything else musical I’ve been involved in, this particular project seems to be coming together really organically and easy. I feel blessed to have had some truly wonderfully talented people become involved in this because they see it as a worthy venture. It makes me want to jump for joy, to whoop and holler from the highest building, dance a mad jig and shout it to the top. But I can’t just yet.
This next stage is crucial. We have to make every second of the time we have count. Some have said 8 hours won’t be long enough. Others have said 8 hours might be too much. Still others have questioned us paying to do this at all, given I’ve got a pretty good home studio. But we’re happy to be doing this and at the end of the day, this is all that matters.
Half the tracks are already recorded and ready to be loaded up into the ProTools suite at the studio. The band is about as rehearsed as we’re ever going to be (even though we are having a final rehearsal tomorrow evening). Time lines are prepared and printed; lists have been checked twice and twice again. We’re as ready as we’re ever going to be.
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We've actually got a lovely female vocalist who is doing the main part of the chorus etc. I sang on the demo because we had no one else at that stage.