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I'm finally really recording a good version of 'Like We Are.'
This is the song i have always described as being inspired by/sounding like The Afghan Whigs.
When i first wrote it, i wasn't really thinking about that, but that's what it resembled when i turned around and looked and saw what i had made.
It will have slightly different lyrics than those posted online. Very slightly different; just a few words have changed so it's not as sophomoric.
I can't remember what chord I changed a few months ago, so now it's back to its original form. It's ten years old, so i can live with that.
The new piano part I wrote is still there, but it's buried in the mix where it should be. This is not a damn piano song. This song has hot blood.
It has 30 time signature changes. I know this for a fact now.
Most of it is in 6/8, but some of it is in 11/8, or 6/8+5/8.
One verse that's usually in 11/8 is, in the second verse only, in 12/8 + 11/8, or 6/8+6/8+6/8+5/8!
You wouldn't think that it did that by hearing it. It sounds pretty natural. In fact, the 12/8 part sounds like it's got an extra beat, as opposed to the 11/8 part. As if the 12/8 part was really 13/8 or something. Yet it still works.
I recorded the electric guitar with a microphone. No amp, just direct on one channel and with a mic on a second channel. The resulting sound of the mic track is thin and trebly and sounds like hell by itself, but makes the whole mix shimmer like crazy.
Unfortunately, the second half of the main verse riff is too muddy and doesn't come out very nicely :(
I am punching in and out, just like i said i wouldn't. I have to be a realist. If i kept trying to get a perfect performance, i'd die before i ever got anything finished. Everyone else does it, so i can too i guess.