Recorded the rhythm guitar and vocal tracks for the twentieth song (Trying Times) today. It’s a really down-tempo song. Later, I ended up going back and re-recording the vocals for You and I (from yesterday.) Hopefully they turned out a bit better this time.
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DW Recording: Day 41
Vocals for Purple Folder and You and I should be recorded, now. My voice sounded really dry today, for some reason, but as it is already, no part of this recording project seems to be perfect.
Dream World: Chapter 6
Here’s the sixth chapter of the Dream World story…
There’s got to be a better way…
Been tired of thinking about web programming and frameworks, lately. There’s got to just be some way to easily get stuff up online, right? Something that doesn’t require the “repeat yourself” (from the supposed DRY with Rails,) that inevitably seems to happen (due to my laziness, at least,) all too often. Thinking about an easy way to just get things up without a lot of hassle. o_O
DW Recording: Day 40
Got the lead part(s) done for a song, today. This song is originally supposed to be some kind of country song. But at the end, it turned into some sort of fusion or funk kind of song, ha ha. I think I’m liking the idea of funk, lately.
DW Recording: Day 39
Had the opportunity to get the lead guitar work done for Muddy Ditch. Trying to get more consistent with lead guitar… but even when I think I’ve played a part slowly enough (to not sound hurried or erratic,) I hear the recording play back… and end up trying all over again.
I’m finding that the electric guitar (for lead parts, at least,) is almost like a river; it moves and bends… it naturally needs to flow.
DW Recording: Day 38
Was given some free time today… so, that equals some prime recording time! Got the vocal tracks recorded for the following songs: Drive Home, and What is Left.
Dream World: Chapter 5
Here’s the fifth chapter of the Dream World story…
DW Recording: Day 37
Got the lead guitar parts done (or re-done,) for song number 13 (Like a Shadow), today. Wish I had time to practice the song parts… that way it’d take me less time to record, at least.
Ideal Framework
Lately, I’ve been working on getting a simple web framework up and running. Partly for show. Partly for practicality. Sometimes I just need to have something in my toolkit that I can use for both of those purposes. Enter Ideal Framework.
It’s really not that great. But, I like to keep things simple. I do like Rails… and the organization it brought to some web applications in general, but I tend to find myself using PHP a lot more often; at least for web-related programming.
If you are interested in things web development… here’s the book on Ideal (in progress.) And, here is the GitHub repository, as well.