Well, my musical collaborators had a listen (to the 2-April post) and served up some worthy feedback – not entirely to my surprise. As I said earlier, orchestration cannot fix everything; sometimes there are parts of a tune that simply need to be reworked… So here we have another pass at Seduction before turning it over to the fine musicians at drumsforyou.com.  If we agree that this revision addresses our mutual concerns, they will apply their collective talents and provide live-recorded drums, bass, rhythm & lead guitars. I remix the tune with the live tracks – dial-in the patches (sounds for the stuff I play) and then the finishing touches, such as piano solos to interweave with the lead guitar. I also experimented a little bit with some horns this evening, and I’ll likely some of those too… I’m purposely trying to keep the orchestration to a minimum at this stage to afford the session musicians as much space and latitude as possible.

So indeed, the creative process is an iterative one, but we’re now moving into the fun zone… getting other musicians involved definitely helps! Hopefully, we’ll get this wrapped up before the next overseas trip – always nice to wrap up a project beforehand!

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