A song for someone missing. Honestly, I have no clue how I came with these lyrics. To compare missing someone to an empty pack of cigarettes, the joys of smoking , and phantom pains? At least I spared you rhyming “pain” with “insane”.

Somewhere in the middle of the day - started checking some sounds and chord progressions. Remembered an earlier lesson: have a song ready before working on arrangement. Sat down and put down most of the words. Aimed for something Bon Iver, ended up with Bowie-ish vibes.

6:00 - Recorded a base track with piano and vocals for one verse, one bridge and one chorus.

6:45 p.m. - stopped recording, family time.

9:00 p.m. - back to the drawing board. Cloned the basic structure. Found a lot of sound patterns to use, threw away most of them after a few tries.

10:00 p.m. - Song structure stands. All vocals recorded, the chorus cloned. Ending and beginning give some timing trouble.

10:15 p.m. - Background vocals.

11:00 p.m. - mixing, balancing the vocals

11:15 p.m. - final listen.

11:20 p.m. - song done. Another day, another song.

Learnings today:

Learning 1: the learning works! Put down an almost complete song before recording.

Learning 2: What I don’t know now, I won’t learn during project. It simply costs too much time to find out how certain things work. E.g. I’d like to adjust the background vocals to exactly synchronize with the main vocals. It’s possible. But I am too highly strung to figure it out or search on YouTube.