The drums are done

I finished recording the drums for my demos project with Eric about a week and a half back. Mostly. We missed one song, but I'm not going to do another drums session for just one tune. I've returned all the gear I've been borrowing to the people I've been borrowing it from. What I may do for that one tune, if I really want to get it done, is possibly try and put together a drum machine track for it. Brian recently got a drum machine that I may ask if I can borrow. Either that, or I could just move forward with the original version I recorded with the drum loops. However, we (me and Eric) discovered when messing around with the song, that the main guitar riff is entirely ahead of the beat, so it wouldn't sync up with the drum loop as well as it might with something specifically built for it.

I did end up throwing down one guitar track last week as well. Time now to finish up the guitar tracks, get some bass (and possibly keys) done, and get working on the vocals.

However, I'm not going to be doing much on that for at least a week, as the Pawnshop Diamonds recording starts this weekend. Two full days over at Moontower studios on Saturday and Sunday. I guess you could say I'm excited. I am excited to get the songs recorded, maybe not so much for the actual recording. I've done this enough now that excited really isn't the word. While I do enjoy the process of recording, it is also work, and when you're paying $35 an hour for it, I tend to try to want to be more efficient than excited. The most important thing is that I no longer feel as apprehensive as I had been feeling. Let's just say there have been some....ahem "spirited discussions" on how we should be going about this that seem, with the last couple rehearsals, to have been mostly resolved. I've always maintained that often, in the workplace, too many meetings were detrimental to actually getting things done, and it felt like that for a while with the band. We are....ahem, "discussing" way too much and not settling on a plan and sticking to it and rehearsing. But that seems past now. The past couple rehearsals left me feeling a lot more positive about our ability to go in to the studio and be more efficient.

But this weekend will tell.