Alex AMES — Writer, Singer, Songwriter
I wonder how we’ll look back at those two COVID years? Most of us will try to forget them. Our lost years. This one took a little longer to post due to some technical issues with my equipment.
Finished this one shortly after midnight, but some hickup wouldn’t let me post the song until Friday night
Learnings: None.
A little heavy on electronics, but a nice simple one.
Another 2 hours song from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
No learnings today.
Turned out to be a bit heavy on the electronics, but why not. Today’s no-more-Tuesdays Tuesday. Excuses, Excuses is the last Tuesday song in the series!!!
Another quick production. Sat down around 8:00 p.m. and was all done shortly before 10:00 p.m. A-Z. The lyrics are sloppy again, extremely sloppy (“let the horse of truth out of its stable”? WTF.?)
Learnings: Maybe invest ten more minutes in proper lyrics tomorrow!
Got a little carried away with the synths in the end but basically the way I intended it to be.
This one was a quick one. 8:00 p.m. sit down with no idea and no preconception. At 10:00 p.m. all over and done. Tidbit: the accoustic guitar bit that sounds like a loop is indeed one continious track.
Learning: Luckily I made sure I got the key right this time. Otherwise the refrain wouldn’t have worked.
Another good one, I feel. Again pretty much came out the way I intended it to be.
Started writing and recording quite early, all was done around 9:30 p.m.
Learning: None. None at all. A happy man.
Today’s song pretty much came out the way I wanted. The production value is not great and I had hoped to improve the guitar sound a little bit and ran out of time. Story of this project.
Late afternoon: tinkered around with the chords and the story line
6:00 p.m. - Sat down to write the lyrics from A-Z
9:00 p.m. - Recording starts with an hour interruption. Guitar and vocals came first, then everything else. There is an inexplanable hick-up in the first beat of the refrain but when I look at the MIDI data everything looks fine. Ghost in the machine.
11:45 p.m. - Mixing starts and proceeds quickly. First bounce already is good enough to proceed on.
Learnings: None.
