new song

i wrote a song on the BNL/Guster cruise in 2006. i was influenced by some of the new sounds i’d heard on the ship. i wasn’t much of a BNL fan before that cruise (we went mostly for guster, and the caribbean, and they won me over), so i heard a lot of new music that week, including BNL’s side projects and the other bands onboard. the song didn’t (and still doesn’t) sound like BNL,…

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drummers, garageband, and wordpress

random thoughts: i’ve got 7 drummers lined up now to play on 11 songs i plan to record for my new side project/solo album. can’t wait to start tracking. need to come up with a name for that “band” as well as the album itself. after using pro tools for years, and then trying to do something as simple as a quick edit on a song in garageband just now, i wonder how anyone can…

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Pro Tools Overdubs Video

I made my first educational video the other day. My friend Mike recently got Pro Tools and had a question about making overdubs sound smoother. So rather than typing out a huge email, I just broke out the video camera. After doing that, it seemed like it was something other people might find useful, so I threw it up on youtube. I might do some more some time if the mood strikes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11owV-LZ5d4&fmt=18 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11owV-LZ5d4&fmt=18[/youtube]

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Caught up on that song

I spent a few hours this weekend re-recording the missing parts from that song “So Long”. I do quite like this song. So, now I’m back to where I was before with it, and I also have the new harmony ideas recorded. Cool. The song was inspired by an awful article I read last year about a kid who was killed. Apparently, this kid was at the site where his friend died in an accident…

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