This one took me a while to get.  But I was always wondering how come it took so long to get the song sounding “right”.  I’m the bass player usually for the music projects that I do with my friends, and it always seemed like it wasn’t “locked in” when we played songs and stuff.  As a guitar player turned bass player, I never had the in depth study that a bassist thinks about all the time.   Or maybe not even.  Again this is one of those posts where

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So, you’re making a demo…

You’ve rehearsed a lot, and are ready to lay down some tracks at a nice, or not so nice recording studio.  You’ve probably like I did, paid a bunch of money to have someone engineer the demo and are really wanting things to go well.

Here are just some thoughts about what things to think about once you are ready to go and get everyone together to play.  I recorded some pop songs, and so these are the things that I had to keep in mind, but I guess that the process would be slightly different say if you were recording a hip hop track, or classical concerto, or anything in between.  But for us, it was all about planning…

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