Tune Update!
If you reviewed my prior posts, you’ll recall that I received back the live recordings (for drums, bass and guitar tracks). These recordings were made against a Sketch of the tune … very basic stuff to namely define the song structure for the session musicians. It’s best not to have too much going on in a sketch so that the musicians have lots of room to work with… and that’s a hard thing for a piano player to let go of! But now the final compositional stage is about ME putting down some spice with my own tracks! I decided to add a horn (trumpet/trombone) to back the sax… and changed the saxophone from an Alto to a Tenor… just sounded better to my ear.
Seduction All Instruments Preview
So here, we have a trial mix with everything… with the caveat that the Mix needs work. For example, the horns are too loud and the lead guitar is too low during the Finale, but I’ve yet to begin the Mixing phase (where all of that type of stuff gets dialed in). At this point, I like to take a few days just to listen and ensure all of my instruments are doing what they should… before I record them and proceed to mixing. I’m noting a few mistakes here and there, a few spots where too much is going on… It almost comes down to what you can remove vs. what you can add at this point. I’ll clean this up, but I’m happy to say that this preview is closer to a Tune than a Sketch…
