Had the opportunity to work on adding drums, bass guitar and some electric guitar to a song called “Test Me with Fire” during part of today. For the drums, I use a program called Addictive Drums that plays drum sample sounds when a certain MIDI note is played on the music program I use for that. It works out well and is nice because I don’t play drums very well. Been putting to use an older drum/percussion set of pads for adding specific drum parts as well, and that is fun.

Had the opportunity to change the bass strings earlier this month and they have been working out well so far. Currently using D’Addarío Nickel Wound XL (EXL22OTP) (from an earlier post on a friend’s Facebook wall) for the strings.

Fun to add the electric guitar parts in general, but I’m learning that it’s easy to add too much electric guitar too quickly. A little electric guitar seems to go a long way. Been working on keeping rhythm when recording electric guitar as well, and this song from today is one of the faster songs on the related album. Fun to play the faster songs!