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Post by Cornflake on Oct 31, 2006 12:27:14 GMT -5
I am very methodical and premeditated about arrangements when I record. I make detailed notes about which instruments enter when and do what. When I'm planning a recording, I listen in my head to how all of these parts will fit together.
Then I do the recording, and at least half the time what seemed like such a bang-up arrangement doesn't work very well in practice. Doesn't suck, but it's not right. So I have to start over. I'm ten hours into my latest recording project. Of the six songs I've recorded, I've already had to start over from scratch on two.
Are others better at planning arrangements than this? Or do you just record guitar, so the issue doesn't arise?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2006 14:16:36 GMT -5
Hmm.
When I first set up my studio I had all sorts of ambitions. I bought bags of hand percussion, got hold of a bass guitar, worked out MIDI for drums (gave that up and triggered from a keyboard instead), added some nylon string guitar lines, harmonised my vocal... What a mess!
It was fun for a while, but I wasn't good at it and it wasn't doing the songs any service anyway.
I'm envious of folks who can get that stuff together.
Cheers!
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Post by Marshall on Nov 4, 2006 11:27:58 GMT -5
The benefit of doing it at home, is you can try different arrangements; different keys; different speeds; different vocal techniques; differnt percussion. The possibilities are endless. . . . , as well as the time required to actually get anything done.
But that's where I am. I have a perfectionist attitude about my silly little songs. And I have to do them justice. So, I'm OK with the process. But it's time consuming.
Yes I'm methodist and premedicated.
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Post by Cornflake on Nov 4, 2006 17:27:06 GMT -5
Yeah. Doing them justice. That's a good way to put it.
Sometimes that requires just a voice and a guitar, but sometimes it requires more.
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