SPECIAL TREAT! (Page 2 of 3)

Congrats Russell
You gotta be pretty excited about this.
Looking forwards to hearing the CD and watching the vids.

Kap

I am confused! Where is the video??
Help!

Stretch papa if you click on the link at the bottom (mediafire) look for "my recording session" there are two folders each has a video the first is a layout of the studio and an interview with the recording engineer and the second is me recording the first acoustic track (live) just click on both downloads and save to your files they are both wmv (windows media video) and will play on your media player or default viewer

Kenny I have charted out the song and practice it each day, I go over the lead guitar solo and rhythm tracks and I am useing a keyboard player who is very talented and I gave him a copy of the song and wrote a chart for him to practice to and we will get together before the session and run over the song a few times so we are comfortable with it and not waste valuable studio time rehearsing it we will have it down before recording it in order to cut down the retakes I think we can do it in one take,the song is "Another Day" and if all go's well I will also record "Breezzin" to

The time for the next session is fast approaching the session is set for this Thursday the 16Th at 7pm and I have been purposely avoiding working out a lead solo note for note because I believe that a general idea is better as it leaves more room for spontaneity and having a set arrangement of notes in a solo would be counter productive,I know the chord changes and my solo will follow them but I will let the inner spirit,the creative force that God has blessed me with take over and guide my hands on the fretboard.Its easy to talk about how well you play but when you record its like words spoken, once they leave your lips you are judged by others and there is no rewind or second chance to make a first impression but im confident the notes I record will be up to my standards and the best I can do, and in the end thats all anyone can hope for.

Hi Russ,

'Break a Leg' on Thursday and I will invite 'Murphy' round to mine for the day. He has been dogging me lately anyway so having another day with him won't make much difference.

Roger

Roger I think Mr.Murphy has invaded my vista puter the fan still makes a little groan when I fire it up,I took it apart and cleaned all the fans and its running a lot quieter but I may need to replace the fan unit so I wrote down the part number and I'm searching for a replacement and I hope Murphy postpones his unwelcome visit to your residence and my session  

Ark what I was refering to was the finished recording because once its mastered there is no going back to a "do over" as far as retakes if there needed yes I can do them but I really dont think it will be necessary I think one take will be all I need unless some physical malady strikes my fingers (not to likely) and thanks for your best wishes Russ

I uploaded two videos of the recording session one is "in the control room" this is a short video of all the equipment involved in my recording with my song playing in the background the second video is "in the studio" it is the actual real time recording of the guitar solo I was going to edit this because I had to scratch my nose but changed my mind and left it in so what the heck we all gotta scratch what itches once in a while,If you wish you may click the link at the bottom and download these videos I will be videotaping another installment of "Chordie Forum News" later and upload it to mediafire also

Thanks Ark but that was only a practice run,the final solo is on my copy of the wav cd they burrned for me,we were just checking audio levels on that video the final cut is better but I am returnning on the 25th to cut another and compair the two to see which is better and the drummer will lay the rhythm track and there will be a lady singing some backup parts and then comes the mastering and it starts all over with the next song (hint) its the song you arranged for the challange, I am sticking with the original chord structure and by the end of next week I should have some workable lyrics thanks again for your kind comment russ

Hey Doug how ya doing? did you get all your belongings over to your new crib yet? I'll bet you and the misses cant wait to get settled so things can get back to normal,to answer your question there is very little left for me to do on the song nothing I cant finish in one hour,the drummer already has a copy and he's a studio musician so he shouldn't have any problems with it.Recording in a studio is a lot differen't then at home the slightest error is noticed and must be redone and punching in saves time and money for me,quite frankly I cant wait to get started on the next song when you get your place set we can google chat so till later thanks for the comment russell