{"id":66,"date":"2007-10-16T00:38:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T05:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2007-10-16T00:38:14","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T05:38:14","slug":"tracks-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/tracks-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracks Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I launch into the next set of tracks for my new album, I thought I’d take a listen to what I have so far. <\/span>I find it’s good to this to a group of songs. <\/span>So burned a CD for the car and uploaded them on my iPod for the train ride. <\/span>Listening to mixes on inferior systems in noisy a environments is a good way to make sure it degrades gracefully, as important features of the music can’t be heard. <\/span>Overall it’s sounding good, but I made a new batch of mixes.<\/p>\n

Marfa My Dear<\/strong><\/a> being a cover is not really destined for the record, but it still seemed it could stand some improvement. <\/span>I mainly reduced the level of chorus on the vocals, reduced the effects on the piano, and boosted the sax and the bass guitar. <\/span>Added a peak limiter to the master out.<\/p>\n

Letter From Home<\/strong><\/a>, also a cover, and therefore an oddity for the hypothetical box set. <\/span>This one was just an effects tweak too:\u00a0 reversed the order of the chorus and delay in the effects chain on the horn, and it’s a good deal nicer to my ear. <\/span>Also boosted the bass guitar a tad and added a peak limiter to the master out.<\/p>\n

Heat Wave<\/strong><\/a> is the first original song in the new batch, and I put it aside when I got to the first rough mix. <\/span>Now I’ve come back to sharpen it up. Now <\/span>I’ve added a clav part to the chorus and bridge to give a little rhythmic counterpoint to the piano and bass. <\/span>I also cleaned up the sax part and added some effects for the sax solo, and adjusted the levels of pretty much everything. <\/span>For a while I had been thinking the horns weren’t bright enough, and maybe I should double the part on alto. <\/span>But not the tenor sounds a bit more on top, so that may not be necessary.<\/p>\n

Angel Or Alien<\/strong><\/a> of course is the song I developed over the summer. <\/span>I made one more mix that cleaned up the lead synth and added some percussion in the middle section. <\/span>I did a few experiments after that with backing vocals and more percussion but wasn’t satisfied with the result. <\/span>I have one more thing I want to try, adding some drum fills in the tutti section, and maybe some atmospheric synths in the very beginning and\/or end.<\/p>\n

So enjoy the new mixes. <\/span>Now I’m trying to decide what to work on next. <\/span>I have lots of songs that are partway developed, but I narrowed it down to two that are pretty are along and also relatively short.\u00a0 <\/span>One is an instrumental in 9\/8 in the key of E minor; I did a demo of it years ago. <\/span>Another is a sort of bitter twisted stride number in 7\/8 in C minor that I wrote in 2004 or so. <\/span>But then just today I wrote a new song. <\/span>I’ve been looking to do something really simple, in contrast to all these crazy chords and meters I’ve been doing. <\/span>I came up with a riff I like based on the change C, Em, F in a classic R&B soul groove.\u00a0 Today as I walking back from lunch I came up with a lyric and melody, and nice love song to Jeannie. <\/span>So I’m excited about this and think it’ll hop to the top of the queue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I launch into the next set of tracks for my new album, I thought I’d take a listen to what I have so far. I find it’s good to this to a group of songs. So burned a CD for the car and uploaded them on my iPod for the train ride. Listening to … Continue reading “Tracks Updates”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}