There are so many things we straight for. Money, electronics, luxury, shoes. Name it, you got it. But let’s go straight for the other stuff. The real stuff.

20:30 - First sit-down with an empty sheet of paper. Under the shower after biking I already had a chorus idea, so it takes fifteen minutes to flesh out the first two verses and bridges.

21:15 - Production start. The base-track of my guitar and me starts it all. Then follows the piano and the auto-drummer.

23:45 - Learning of the day: do not use an e-guitar! It takes ages if you want to develop a good solo or tune the sound that it does not overload the song. Second lesson of the day: same applies for a cool smoky B3 organ solo. All into the bin, 30 minutes lost for nothing. I ended up with no solo. I should buy a harmonica.

0:00 - I love copy and paste. The strip settings for each channel were supereasy to set up. To improve performance of my Mac I bumped the piano and the bass to WAV before final mix.

0:15 - Master done. Lesson three: don’t forget to switch off the metronome. Master again.