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Saturday, March 8, 2008

Tracking EP 1


That title sounds like we released the EP into the bush in Africa and we're hunting it with tranquilizers. "There it is! Grab it!" Hehheh.

Much is done. I am about to meet Dan to listen to what we have, whereupon Dan will employ his very Zen, very swift editing skillz. Dan says that we are "90% done which means we're halfway there." It's true. We might be done with the tracking part (maybe), but then there's rough mixing and listening and mixing and mastering and who knows. All good!

In case anyone was wondering, because I kind of wonder who made the standard...Wikipedia says this about EPs:

"Extended play (EP) is the name typically given to vinyl or CDs which contain more music than a single, but are too short to qualify as albums. Usually, an EP has around 10–35 minutes of music, a single has up to 10 minutes and an album has 35–80 minutes."

Now you know.


I got to bring out the long-owned and underused Martin Backpacker, a little funky shaped travel guitar (my roommates in college called it "The Stick"). It's signed by John Jennings, who is one of my very favorite guitarists ever...he plays one onstage with Mary Chapin sometimes. Mine has been solely an at-home instrument until today. It was probably thrilled to get out of the house.


We re-listened to a tune called "Fortunate" that we recorded last night (and with which Dan showed the human side of being a good producer -- it's not all ProTools shortcuts! -- and talked me through doubling the vocals with harmony. My confidence in singing harmony was, shall we say...lacking. But I did it. Woot!). I think the vibe of "Fortunate" matches what it's all about and works really well. Dig.


Then we set to finishing "Blonde on Blue." A little banjo, a little piano, a little Backpacker, a little bass. All of the sudden you have a bunch of sounds to play with. Kids in a sandbox.

Now we listen to what we have for a week or two and see where it leads.

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