recording music, supa fun!

well i seriously doubt anyone will ever read my blog again.... except maybe u lee. which is kinda nice actually cuz that way i can write just about anything i want.... and i don't have to use correct puncuation and all the great stuff. although it is kinda weird typing to myself. or maybe it's more like tyrping to an imaginary audience.... oh well. anyway, i've been recording a song i wrote for dana. she's my girlfriend, for any of you imaginary people who don't know. now you're smarter, happier imaginary people. and that was disturbingly random, so i'm gonna move on. recording music. it's great fun. before this song, i had always just recorded drums and voice. i play drums. yay. i don't sing, but for some reason i record my voice anyway. so i recorded myself singing this song, called "what the future holds". i record songs i write so i can remember the tune later. i can't write music, i'm just a drummer. i'm just a drummer, this is an underlying principle in my life. so whenever you're judging my competence or what value my actions have in the scope of human history, just remember, i'm just a drummer. so anyway, i recorded myself singing "what the future holds". and the next day at work i was thinking about playing piano for it. i think about a lot of things at work. drawing radiators is very monotonous about 97.3% of the time. once in a while u'll have to figure out why one line doesn't line up with another one, but besides that, it's really monotonous. so as i sit there mindlessly drawing red and green lines on the screen, my mind is engaged in various other endeavors. that particular day i was thinking about how the piano would go for "what the future holds". u see, i'm just a drummer, but when i listen to music i can hear in my mind what i would add to a song if i could play other instruments. so, the creativity is not lacking, just the ability. but i came up with something simple for "what the future holds", so when i got home i tried to play. and lo and behold, i got it! MAN! that was exciting. i practiced it a few times and recorded the first part, i think it was just the intro. then i added drums. now, recording with different tracks is nice because you can edit seperate tracks and redo individual instruments and what not, but let me tell you, it is a pain in the apple. i've never said pain in the apple before. i felt very dumb, i don't think i'll ever say it again. so anyway, it takes concentration to get the timing for two tracks to match up. but i am a concentration man after all. if u were one of the engineers at work u'd be laughing, but ur not so u aren't and i'm too lazy to explain it. and explained jokes are not funny, just awkward. so anyway. i finally got a decent drums track down, and stopped for the day cuz i was getting tired of messing with it. the next day, i did some editing, for some reason i have to move every drum track i record back 0.02 seconds. in order for it to sound like it's on beat. i blame it on computer lag, but it could be pilot error, i dunno. i also had to move some individual drum hits into the right place. that's always fun. zooming in til you can see the individual drum hits, then cutting and moving the one you want. awesome fun. remember, i'm just a drummer. oh yeah, i have this cool new hair do, i just happened to touch my hair so i remembered it. just thought i'd tell you. man this is embarassingly random, i hope no one who doesn't know me well ever reads this. then again, if they don't know me well.... why should i care? but anyway, recording music! the next day i decided that just the drums and piano and voice sounded kinda empty. i needed some bass in there. but not bass guitar, that would ruin the mood of the song. it's a slow saddish kinda song. and besides, i like the sound of strings a lot better than that of a bass. so i found a nice sounding strings voice on my brother's keyboard and started figuring out what i'd play on it. it turned out to be pretty much the same as the piano, but two octaves lower. i added a strings track to the song, adjusted volume levels, and was quite pleased with the results. then i started playing around with the other voices on the keyboard and found some cool "choir" voices. there's probably one key on the whole keyboard that sounds like a real human voice, but oh well, it still sounds cool. so i added a "choir" track, and was pleased with the result. it adds to the sad "where'd you go, by fort minor"-esque nature of the song. fort minor is a rockin musical endeavor by the way, and where'd you go is a rockin song. the group is a side project of the rapper/pianist from Linkin Park. anyhoo, what was i saying.... oh yeah, the choir voices. that turned out pretty good. and so far i have the intro, first verse, and part of the chorus done. unless i decide to add other things to those parts. i think what i'll do is just copy and paste tracks for the other verses and choruses. i'm also gonna add an intrumental after the second chorus, i'm excited about figuring that out. oh yeah, it just occured to me that u may be wondering how i laid down piano and keyboard tracks if i don't play piano. well, it one of those tunes and really really simply but sounds nice anyway. simple beauty. i only have to use two or three fingers to play each track. i am still just a drummer. and i'm quickly becoming a sleepy drummer. and i'm bored of writing. and i'm running out of things to say. so i'll end it here. later.

In Christ,

-Diego