RECORDING SESSION #4

​Well, it was back in the studio today to continue working on my next album. We spent the first three hours tracking the final two songs that are titled New Guy in Town and the other one was titled Edge of Nowhere. I left these two songs to the end because they were not too that we had played live yet and they were also the two songs that were a struggle to write. There were struggled because although I knew the idea of the song, I didn’t know how to get inside it. For me a song I do is like a house. When I get an idea for a song, I first have to find the house. Once I find it then I have to find a way inside. Like anybody else I first try the door. But sometimes it’s locked and you can’t find the key. That’s when I look for a window to crawl through. Whatever it takes to get inside the house. Because for me, it’s impossible to write the song unless I find a way in. 

The other reason why we left these two songs to be is because Jason Valleau the bass player had come up with some ideas for some very cool base lines on an electric guitar instead of the upright bass. 

The last thing we did today is we retract the first song that we laid down called Brave the Hive. I wanted to take another stab at it because I felt like we recorded the first version too fast and then I was rushing to get the words out. Every time I listen to it it felt four or five BPM’s too fast.

So we slowed it down and recorded it but when I listened back what I realize it, I’d lost the energy in the song the performance that I delivered was not as good as the first take because there wasn’t a drive to the song to push it along. I played both versions for my wife. She’s the person that has heard me sing and play more times than anybody else and I trust her opinion. She also thought that the first version was the better of the two.