Happy Song Weekend

It's a peaceful Sunday morning in Vancouver. Got an extra day off tomorrow, thanks to the grand old Regina, herself. God save her. (That's pronounced 'ray-gee-na' this time, smart alecs. And it must be declared in a pompous tone, with a slightly rolled 'r', and the pitch raised on the second syllable, as though by an officer with his sword in the air, about to lead his men on a mad charge as Zulu spears fly about threateningly, for the boys; or in a piercing, plaintive, echoing, Anita Pallenberg-like shriek from within the cold, cavernous confines of a castle for exiles, for the pretty-prettys.) And this time I really have GarageBand. This is a feature of Mac computers which enables recording and mixing music. The only hardware needed is an interface with the jacks on it to let you plug in a mic or an instrument. (It hooks to the computer by USB and you just need to download the drivers to get it working.) GarageBand is laid out similar to how I recall Flash, way back when it was still Macromedia Flash. It has a vertical marker which runs along a horizontal time frame. The tracks can be layered one on top of the other. Quite a user friendly system. (Not glitch free, but I'll spare you.) It has made the production of songs an overall quieter affair. A three-minute idea on the guitar only takes maybe half an hour to record. The bass line takes much longer, but is funner and hardly audible outside of this room. I might sit on an empty chord progression for a while until the best possible way of filling it in vocally occurs to me. But I don't make any noise as I'm working it out mentally. When I have to sing, I try to keep it as live as possible. I might not get it perfect right away because my voice has to get used to singing it when it's a new or unfamiliar melody. By evening time I fare better, but I don't want to disturb the peace too much with my ailing wailing. Sometimes I record the verses and choruses separately. Lets me have a running start at the chorus. But it wouldn't be essential. Within the Mac environment it is also simple to share with itunes. How far and wide this will spread them is unknown. But by then, the thrill is anticlimactic. I have finished that song and have already started work on the next one.
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