January 1, 2023
Elephants of Scotland
- Spent yesterday and today composing, arranging, and practicing the drum part for “Tempest of Tarragon.”
- It is a very unconventional song so it needs extra work in the arranging stage to make it sound “normal.”
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December 24, 2022
Elephants of Scotland
- Sat down to work on “Cool Rabbits” but found myself rearranging an very old song of Greg’s “Beyond”
- Recorded two demos and sent to him for review.
December 18, 2022
Elephants of Scotland
- Final song structure in place for “Tempest of Tarragon” – removed a few bars here, added some there.
- Then I found a short piece of prose that Greg wrote that I want to use as a spoken piece in the instrumental.
- Which lead me to another of Greg’s pieces that should be an entire prelude/introduction/separate track
- So now “The Tempest of Tarragon” will probably be 2 or 3 minutes longer still.
- TBD
- Then I rehearses/composed drum parts. Almost there – not quite.
Hot Neon Magic
- Drum practice. Oy.
December 7, 2022
DonnCherie
- Some final final masterings for 3 songs.
- Changed bass guitar on Spellbound to new sample library I bought. Much better.
- Yep. Done.
Matt
- Some mix tweaking
- Laid down first ever mandolin recording for “Wild Leek River” – decent.