Thursday
May052005
sleeping in
Thursday, May 5, 2005 at 12:12PM
Well, first of all. I cheated. This morning, I did not get up to mow the lawn at 8, No! I didn't even get up at 9:30 to work at 10. No! I opened the door for Ben and Andy, went back to bed, got up at 10:30, wished it was still 6 am, and wondered downstairs sleepy-eyed hoping they weren't just looking at the stairwell waiting for me. They weren't. Thank God.
I think I played the last electric guitar on the record last night, though. It's been a very fun record to play. I got to do a lot of John Leventhal style stuff. Low baritones and clean strats. So much fun. I actually have rediscovered the Strat on this record. I've used it on almost every song, and gotten sounds out of it I didn't realize were in there. I'm excited for people to hear it. It's fun to listen to something you just did and go "man, that sounds like the dude actually knew what he was doing!"
I never know what I'm doing. I play guitar like Jackson Pollock painted. And his paintings annoy me. I never took lessons or anything, so everything I know how to do, technique-wise, I had to learn by playing, hearing a part that needed to be there, and figuring out a way to do it. I guess that's how anybody learns anything, though. At first you just have a couple tricks, you learn a few new ones, and after a while your tricks start blending together until you really actually have a sort of mastery of it. Or at least a good framework.
In other news, I wrote yesterday about Ella smiling. Well, we sure tried the rest of the day to get her to do it again, and no dice. We know she can, though, so that's good news! When she's sleeping she makes all kinds of different faces, or as Cason calls it, she's "scrolling through facial expressions." It's pretty cute, and you can see her muscles learning how to move in all those different directions. Pretty amazing.
Also, if you use ProTools ever, make sure to leave on Auto-Save every 5 minutes. It's under the Prefs menu. Somehow ours got turned off, and we just lost an hour of drum editing and Andy P's lead vocal he just spent an hour on. So he has to do it again. Which gives me time to write my post about church.
I think I played the last electric guitar on the record last night, though. It's been a very fun record to play. I got to do a lot of John Leventhal style stuff. Low baritones and clean strats. So much fun. I actually have rediscovered the Strat on this record. I've used it on almost every song, and gotten sounds out of it I didn't realize were in there. I'm excited for people to hear it. It's fun to listen to something you just did and go "man, that sounds like the dude actually knew what he was doing!"
I never know what I'm doing. I play guitar like Jackson Pollock painted. And his paintings annoy me. I never took lessons or anything, so everything I know how to do, technique-wise, I had to learn by playing, hearing a part that needed to be there, and figuring out a way to do it. I guess that's how anybody learns anything, though. At first you just have a couple tricks, you learn a few new ones, and after a while your tricks start blending together until you really actually have a sort of mastery of it. Or at least a good framework.
In other news, I wrote yesterday about Ella smiling. Well, we sure tried the rest of the day to get her to do it again, and no dice. We know she can, though, so that's good news! When she's sleeping she makes all kinds of different faces, or as Cason calls it, she's "scrolling through facial expressions." It's pretty cute, and you can see her muscles learning how to move in all those different directions. Pretty amazing.
Also, if you use ProTools ever, make sure to leave on Auto-Save every 5 minutes. It's under the Prefs menu. Somehow ours got turned off, and we just lost an hour of drum editing and Andy P's lead vocal he just spent an hour on. So he has to do it again. Which gives me time to write my post about church.
Reader Comments (1)
I use Logic, and after 30 minutes on getting a vocal line (which should have taken 30 SECONDS), I hit Shift+Del instead of Shift+Insert (which is my hotkey to select that take). Unfortunately, Shift+Del removes the take off the timeline, and the associated media file....permanently. :-)
That being said, I feel your pain.