PSRSotwNotes04.09-07

Peter's Song of the Week Club!

07/09/04

Fight the Sea

Peter's Comments:
What a shambolic mess this turned out to be!

Lots of MIDI problems: the drums ended up out of sync with everything else, and I had to fix them one drumbeat at a time. 1 I still don't know if this is my crap sense of rhythm, or hardware problems, or both.

I recorded track after track, and ntrack crashed constantly, and vsampler (my MIDI synth) occasionally silenced itself for no discernible reason. It was frustrating. 2

All that said, I'm happy to have written a traditional drum/guitar/bass arrangement, and happy to have done another experiment in mostly-nonsensical lyrics. The guitar solo is bad-but-interesting. All in all, a good song to have written, even if it's not a good song to listen to.

Footnotes

1 Note the rhythm guitar and bass drum markedly out of sync at 1:22.

2 Maybe if I hadn't had to spend so much time fighting with the computer, I could have noticed & fixed the arsish backing vocals at 2:20.