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One man home-studio project... I kinda "finished" writing an album last year. I had most of the instruments recorded by February. I've been taking singing lessons for a while now so I figured it was time to do my own vocals. Since I'm a coward when it comes to vocals, I gave myself the year to write the melodies, lyrics and record the vocals. I didn't want to just slap words on top and go "Eh, that'll do". I wanted them to be as good as my guitar playing (for better or worse...) I'm also using an Axe-FX and I reamp everything. So while I've been working on lyrics\vocals, whenever I make a good jump in terms of guitar tone quality, I re-amp and re-mix what I've got (done that twice now...will be doing it once more then calling it "done" because I'm chasing my tail a bit here) I've also written about 8 or so other songs for another project, and 3 or 4 for a blues side-gig I want to work on, because I have no idea how I'm gonna do this "main" album live. I've also re-written one of the songs 3 times until I got a version of it I liked. Which then changed the song-order on the album because I'm doing that very wanky fade-one-song-into-the-other trick for about 4 of them. To be honest, it's become a bit of a thorn in my side, but I've been sitting at 75% complete for about a year now. I've got lyrics written for 5 of the 10 songs (1 more I've got the idea for), but I'm pretty poo poo at writing lyrics. Also since I've discovered that singing is 50% of a mind game, if I think the lyrics are poo poo, then I won't have any confidence in the delivery so those 5 that I'm happy with is a better step than I give myself credit for, even though pretty much everybody else would look at them and go: "You cheesy bastard" as if the string sections didn't already give that away. Overall, I have to admit to being a bit over this and wish I could dump it all on somebody else to do all the re-amping for me so that I could just hammer out the vocals but since I've come this far, it feels a bit lame to do that. Full time jobs get in the way a bit too.
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