All You Can Dream
By Cursory on September 22, 2024 7:54 pm
Happy Week 38! Hope everyone’s doing well. This one came from a guitar idea heavily inspired by style of The Dodos (the file name for this one as a WIP was “Dodos-ish”). Their album “Visiter” is a personal favorite of mine. For some reason I liked the pairing of this faster fingerpicked part with a slower, dreamier “chorus” section. I’m in my Chroma Console era so I had to slap a bunch of weird guitars on this one, including a somewhat indulgent overdriven guitar solo at the end. Also a Mellotron randomly? This one is a bit all over the place but it was fun.
› Lyrics
‹ Lyrics
Feel a yearning in your soul
Every ocean, every pull
Steers away to parts unknown
Here we go
You create impossible dreams
Feel that weight and bend your knees
That world beyond your feet
All you can see
All you can dream
I’d tell you all that you could be
Could be a current, could be a breeze
Could be exactly what you need
Say you’ll never leave this hole
All you burrowed, all you know
If you’re right where you belong
What could go wrong?
But you can make the best of this place
Freely give but you’ll have to take
Confide and recreate
But we can’t make you leave
All you can dream
I’d tell you all that you could be
Could be a current, could be a breeze
Could separate or could set free
All you hold fast, tenured or trapped
What you have fought for, what lands in your lap
Could be a current, could be a breeze
Could tell anyone but you couldn’t tell me
You couldn’t tell me
› Recording Process Notes aka Whining
‹ Recording Process Notes aka Whining
Recording this was an absolute mess I spent way too long learning out how to make the click track follow the different tempos in Logic, recorded a bunch of parts, and finally decided the tempo wasn’t right and I’d have to redo it all. I was pretty frustrated by the time spent tinkering with variable tempo/click, so I started over click free with a guitar/vocal track and tried my best to layer things in time. Recording drums felt pretty nonsensical, I did one track of the kick/tambourine which was just hitting quarter notes on the MIDI keyboard for 4 minutes, what an absolute rush. All the accents/fills were pretty difficult to do with any semblance of rhythm, lots of clicking around to fix things. BUT I think I had more fun than frustration by the end and learned some good stuff.