We\u2019re more than halfway thru January and winter has finally arrived in earnest. We got out first snowfall last night, and the start of a spell of sustained below-freezing temperatures. I\u2019m weathering it alright. It helps that I\u2019m working form home these days; don\u2019t have to wait out on the train platform in the early morning. With the new Star Wars movie out Michelle asked that we watch episodes I \u2013 III, so we did over the weekend. I must say, they\u2019re much better than I remember them, except episode I, which is even worse! I\u2019d forgotten the bit where Jar Jar gets his tongue electrocuted and develops a speech impediment. Yeesh! Still, it\u2019s frustrating because they could have been such really great movies if George had put a more effort into the characters and the dialogue and less into over-the-top CG action set pieces. Ah well it\u2019s over now.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been able to get around to a few random tasks. I don\u2019t have as much time for recording now since I\u2019m mostly focusing on live bands, but I finally finished tracking the long-awaited Soul On Fire<\/a>. I had laid down a sax part earlier but wasn\u2019t quite satisfied with it. The new track is also the debut of my new Reference 54 tenor. It sounds quite good. I usually do a few takes and edit them together create the best total performance, but in this case I just used one take as-is with no alterations.<\/p>\n While I was at it I circled back and added a few synth parts to To Be a Rock<\/a>. Martin had listened to my last mix and though it was missing something, and suggested I think in terms of David Gilmore. Well I didn\u2019t add a guitar track, but I think I have something of that kind of feeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019re more than halfway thru January and winter has finally arrived in earnest. We got out first snowfall last night, and the start of a spell of sustained below-freezing temperatures. I\u2019m weathering it alright. It helps that I\u2019m working form home these days; don\u2019t have to wait out on the train platform in the early … Continue reading “New Recording: Soul On Fire”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-buzzy-tonic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}