new tunes progress
Aside from the video work we’ve been doing and the holidays, we have made some progress lately on new music. Rather than focus on one song at a time I’ve been working on several on parallel. This prevents tedium as you don’t have to hear the same material over and over. I’ve also only been working on music as the mood strikes. It has been my experience that trying to schedule these things results in mediocre songs. Since we don’t have to answer to a label … why not perfect the material instead of rushing to push it out the door?
I’ve been working the past few days on string parts for a song currently title “I Lost” (I think that name will change though). For the strings I’m using the fabulous Garritan Personal Orchestra, which forces me to write true single instrument lines and combine them into section parts. Although I found this method a little tedious at first, the resulting sound is fabulous. I included some of the isolated string parts in our latest podcast for those that are interested. We also spent some time on Sunday listening to old musical/vocal sketches and several stood out as tracks to work on.
… stay tuned (and loopy),
War-N