So - now the year is ticking on and many of us are back at work, and in Australia, still celebrating many a summer drink on the weekend, it turns out that a tune a week takes a little more effort than realized! (for some of us)
How did things fare this week? As well as creative - I'm curious about the time management factor. I ultimately started work on a tune mid week but came back to finish it on Sunday to realize I wasn't in the same headspace. Notes were just not flowing. So I started from scratch on a new tune with totally different vibe. But then didn't have time to finish it / fix problems! I'm finding it monumentally hard to come back to a track and work on it in the same week.
Track wise, I'm about 50% happy with the result. Parts needed redoing majorly - especially the drums and bass. But everything is recorded as waveform and neither synth has the ability to save patches (should have taken photos of the knobs!). I'd add a bridge section and more structure too. If I think of it simply as a recording / engineering test then I'm pretty happy - especially seeing most of it was played on the tiny 202 membrane key pads. But it's not something I'd ever consider releasing in it's current state!! I'm considering 2013 for "weekly fix up" where I go back over all this years tunes and fix the problems.