In my unending efforts at one-upmanship I took today’s “snow day” to write some music in my new music room, taking 3 hours to put a song together that I’m fairly happy with! First, check out the digs:
It’s kind of a mess, but it’s my mess! and it’s a work in progress. It’s nice to have all the music stuff in one place, and a semi permanent setup for recording.
For this song I decided to keep things simple, both musically and recording-wise. As its been quite some time since I have recorded something on my own I didn’t want to get discouraged, knowing the only thing I am still up to snuff on is probably the bass playing. Mixing, guitar playing, and singing in key were the bigger challenges, which is actually why it took 3 hrs instead of one or two. At some point I had to settle, but even the settling allowed for some interesting choices.
Additionally, I was able to send Mike a working copy of the song and with minimal direction, he layered on some awesome shimmery guitar work and a reeeally cool synth part… seriously, it makes the end of the song, I just like the sound so much.
So without further ado here it is, appropriately entitled “Blizzard” (it actually didn’t snow all that much in the end, but hey, a day off is a day off!)
Mike and I hope to do more of these collabo’s thru the interwebs in the future… it sure was fun!
-Blonski