The challenge is called One Day One Song. And the “Day” begun at midnight, sharp. Being up late —very late— for Superbowl — helped conceiving this song, the weather with light snowfall, too, to get some inspiration. In hinsight, I could have left more out. But there are still twenty songs to go. Twenty songs to imprive.

The timeline:

0:00 a.m. - Superbowl night, kick-off in half an hour. Started writing Midnight Song on the chime of the churchbell and was done fifteen minutes later.

0:15 a.m. - I switched to the e-guitar and started recording. By now I am pretty proficient in splicing a song together out of as few recorded bars as possible. After the basic guitar and vocal tracks I had some pep-up ideas.

1:00 a.m. - Mixing start. The pep-up parts distract more than they bring to the sound-table. Tune it down, down, down and concentrate on guitar and vocal instead.

1:20 a.m. - Done. Superbowl time! Don’t worry, I recorded the first quarter.

Learnings:

I had a hard time adding a line with a reference to current events into the song. Not rhyming wise, but more like an internal block to keep the song “eternal”. By adding “lockdown”, the song will always be stuck in 2020 or 2021. Always and forever.

Logic Pro inside baseball: why is the drum pattern editor only available for electronic drum sets and not for the regular drum sets?