Session IV: Over and Over and Over Again…

So I was pretty much at my wit’s end this session. I was trying to lay down guitar tracks for the song “Winds of Home” which is a song that I never performed solo (maybe?) but was performed with my former band Shades of Winter. I tried to bring it into Mystery Road but it just didn’t work for us so we aborted the idea. I’ve always loved this song and heard so much potential to have some really cool shit done to it in a studio setting. After 28 takes I just couldn’t get the ending the way I wanted. In my frustration, I put it all down and went to dinner and pondered it over a salad and chocolate milk. I played it over and over in my head and suddenly realized that I had an even BETTER way to end the song that would make it not only easier but give it a better sense of depth.

I went back to the studio and dropped a sloppy track but at least I captured the way I wanna end it now. It’s not a keeper but at least I got something productive out of it. I even came up with a few ideas for the song like adding a “blowing wind” effect and even adding some kind of deep echoing drum like a djambe or maybe a floor tom or something. Anyways, I feel like that while the actual recording process didn’t go as planned, it sparked some creative ideas that made me excited to tackle in the next session. I even envision a female harmony/duet that made me think instantly of Andrea from Birds & Arrows. Wow, I need to not get so ahead of myself but either way, it’s nice to see that such a productive evening could come from un-productivity and frustration!  I even manged to come up with some new music and the spark of an idea for a new song while taking a break from the frustration.  Ya know, looking back on it now, it really was quite a productive evening in an unexpected way.

Thanks for checkin’ in ya’ll.  More to come soon.