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0:00 Thanks for your time Good night.
2:07 (unidentified song) unidentified
6:22 (unidentified song) unidentified
10:20 Um, I'm writing out the lyrics of History of Modern, because I can't...
10:29 I can't find any on the net that match what I have on my recording. I don't know if I changed them knowingly, or if I used like a live version, or what, but anyway, I went to work on History of Modern, and I thought it'd...
10:44 the right lyrics. Yes that is my water for my voice lesson but there are several cups on the tape deck in there. There was only one corn fillet in the freezer. I wrote an and a one on the list because I didnít realize w...
11:39 (unidentified song) unidentified
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13:24 What have you seen?
13:27 Rights and evolves definitions All right. All right. Hello. Hey. So, since my left hand is acting more than usual today, and also because it seemed like a reasonable time to do it.
17:21 Maybe we can work on some of the album songs.
17:24 that already have the bed recorded. And I'm going to start out with, I'm guessing you're not going to be familiar with this one. This is a cover of an OMD song called History of Modern. And I'll start out, I'll just play...
18:19 (unidentified song) unidentified
20:16 very well.
20:26 And that's probably, some of that is zoom and some of that is just when I recorded the pilot of this was like five years ago.
20:35 okay so there- alright let me try singing along with the track and we'll see what we get okay Echo.
20:54 (unidentified song) unidentified
21:52 I heard before one I was questioning it was about the third century and it was like everything you own studied
22:03 Hey, bro, all the things you earned, all the things you knew
22:06 OK. OK, um, well good. I've hopefully gotten better in the last five years. Let me skip ahead a little bit so that we don't have to review too much of, I need a map to this song. Okay, let's try some Measure 33.
22:33 (unidentified song) unidentified
26:44 Voice is gone Yeah I think that Yeah. I also think that I'm doing much better on my minimum, like the song, I think is much more understandable than it was. And that's a tricky combination for me for some reason. actuall...
28:54 Every, everything, every. Everything you say everything you do.
29:08 oh everything you say yeah It sounds very throaty, and that's you. And it's OK, but, if you can say one thing that you could try for and to get a little bit more up in the mouth, a little bit more tone, get that add, add...
30:09 running through it one more time with me standing, I don't know if I
30:12 Can you adjust this so you can see me that, yeah, it looks like I probably can. Yeah, there we go. So maybe just.
30:20 Because you'll get more of a sense of what it will sound like going actually...
30:23 track it, because I'm not gonna track it sit down. All right. Okay here we go. Oh sure sure let me, let me pull out the. All right.
30:40 Live tight Live tight Live tight
31:03 So
31:13 When I track it there will be two vocal parts, one and
31:16 octave off the other. because that's …uhm okay, sure thing. I'm wondering! That's a question, but to be exact, it has to remain mutinational, much better called on the grove, and then the high part would be normal, lik...
32:37 yeah and i can
32:44 So that was me playing with the game of the two so you can hear how they fit. All right...
33:02 So i'll go through it and this time I'll do the bottom part so you can and also do remember This was the first track of this album. I recorded so this is five years old. I have gotten a little
33:14 since then. All right.
33:30 (unidentified song) unidentified
38:27 this is God
38:42 Yeah, so I was doing almost all down an octave except there's one place where it is a fifth which is the third. There will be no song where the final voice has gone. And in fact there were actually
38:53 three parts there is how that works, there's down an octave, a fifth, and the regular one, but uh- Um, because by that, it starts out-
39:04 There will be no song, starts out with just a unison and then it's a unison octave and then it's a unison.
39:09 Octave and fifth, it gives it this nice kind of opening up sound, yeah, grave grave Yeah, definitely.
39:36 Yeah that that definitely um...
39:39 you did to it yes its not a problem among other things I can also add a whisper track uh... which just puts the consonants in uh... i'm i'm sure you're familiar with that trick Oh.
40:07 It's a common thing to do in pop music to make the consonance more accentuated. After you sing the vocal tract, you then whisper.
40:16 ...the lyrics, and then you drop...
40:19 that in and it just gives you your S's and C's.
40:22 and stuff like that.
40:26 A friend of mine likes to say, you know, that records are like sausages.
40:30 Everybody loves them but you don't want to see how they're made. Alright so, yeah I do
40:43 Yeah, I'm pretty pleased too. I've come a ways here. I'm gonna switch to another...
40:48 I'm going to backtrack now. And your audio or video recording this… you can listen to it back and hear how you did on that. Especially the first time through? And are you doing that? Are you going back and listening to...
41:37 We'll see how well you understand the lyrics. I'll run through once with the scratch vocal.
41:41 And then sing it the same way we did the last one, if that works for you. Alright, just waiting for it to pop up here it's kinda...
41:52 part of what happened with this album, so I got in the
41:55 the Mac Pro right before I started tracking that first song. And this is the first computer that can actually keep up with me, in that. Normally what used to happen with using a computer to record.
42:09 eventually I would exceed its limits either with plugins or the number of tracks, and then I'd have to bounce stuff down and make decisions. But this actually has no problem having 40 or 50 tracks open at once with virtu...
42:24 than all.
42:34 work similarly well with just about anything but I'm using Pro Tools because every studio in Seattle uses Pro Tools so this way I can go record stuff in their rooms and then just drop it into my stuff because I cannot af...
42:52 I can afford a hundred dollars to go use one. All right, here-here we go
43:34 Do you ever feel trapped in space? ..Like you're here on time or maybe the wrong place Do you ever feel like time goes by Is everything right bugs
44:05 I had no need for you now and you're nowhere around
44:23 I want you now
44:28 Nothing
44:31 🎶
44:34 Thanks for watching!
44:38 Do you ever feel like tomorrow will never come? Like time is frozen, like someone stops and sighs do you ever feel like memories Nine to ten distorted
44:59 imma death blade I'm death blade.
45:23 Music
45:50
45:55 I love you
46:01 Music
46:05 Oh
46:14 Sometimes you wish things could have stayed
46:37 yeah
46:46 🎶 Music Outro 🎶
47:02 Sometimes we wish things could have stayed. Yeah, I think it ... Yeah, and then there's the question of whether I was overdoing the delay in that. And I still have not in anyway finalized the mix on this.
47:41 The arrangement is done but the mix I'm still playing with. Yeah I could definitely want to hear you singing now. Ok um so I'm probably just going to mute the previous vocal on this one. Yeah because the I may not do it ...
48:47 (unidentified song) unidentified
50:19 With Deathblade deathblade
50:31 Insert Solo Slash Bridge here.
50:46 Time to wake up
50:54 Music
51:16 one of the
51:20 Jazzy Outro Music
51:30 To- Shall pass. Time takes on for ever, moving future into past Sometimes we wish things could've stayed
51:53 All together unafraid this too shall pass Time takes some forever moving future into pass Sometimes we wish things would've stayed Forever young and unafraid.
52:35 yeah yeah it's it's asking a lot of my air because
52:44 load to maintain any sort of tonal precision at all, I'm moving like a quarter lung per syllable.
52:49 Um, I got to end it there.
52:54 I probably should be, you know, exercising more I sadly, since
53:00 Post-COVID, I used to go rollerblading and bowling all the time, but post-COVID, I kind of sit in my house. But I guess that's almost over.
53:10 Anyway so, intelligibility wise, how was that?
53:13 It's less intelligible, but... And I may have to record that one word at a time. Right, which, you know, if that's what it takes, that's what it takes. give yourself better air when you're doing recordings. Yeah. You kno...
55:36 (unidentified song) unidentified
56:37 a
56:41 Do you ever feel like tomorrow will never come? Like time has frozen Or like someone's stopped the sun Do you ever feel like the memories won't fade? Trapped in the past We'll just split
57:10 If you'd like us to go up at the end with the more of the questions and down at the end with the answers... in keeping with the way English usually uses tones to signal. Yeah, I can see that. If you switched it, do you e...
58:48 you
59:15 (unidentified song) unidentified
1:00:18 Can we really both like that. Like going up on the question and going down on the answer. And the only other thing I would have to say is on the well I need you now, seems very unmotivated like its just very well I need ...
1:00:42 more intensity, yes, I get it
1:00:45 Like that rotation. And the cold hard ground is kind of this final answer of something. And it doesn't really sound very final. Yeah, okay.
1:01:02 Yeah, I can definitely see where I need you now.
1:01:05 It's punched up a little. Oop rough Weee N Human N Human N Human N Human N Human N Human N Human N Human N Human N Human N Human
1:01:12 Will I need need you now? Will I need you now?
1:01:19 What if he went up on the word need?
1:01:22 Well, I need you now. I think I'm, I'll have to hear at the backing track, but...
1:01:30 I'll mark that as a possible here on the sheet. Well, I mean... Yeah.
1:01:58 Well, I mean I'm at 9,000 of my 10,000 hours at this point. I'm not that far from where I might...
1:02:06 reasonably expect to get paid for this.
1:02:10 This has been something I've been seriously pursuing my whole life even though it doesn't
1:02:14 sandwich show... i agree ,i agree , it wasnt just like , oh my God and i sound so much better yea ...
1:02:40 think also it's going to improve intelligibility because it's the common signaling method in English for question So I should have thought of that already, but I did not
1:02:50 Oh musical question musical answer yeah and and strangely I actually took a couple of
1:03:58 masters of music theory in college and they did not go through that at all. Of course some of that was they didn't, we never got to the singing part, we were still on, studying how
1:04:08 assembled his his miscellaneous works Well not just one form, one five one, but adding three in there and adding two in there and, a false one that leads off the six chord, and then when you're going back to the end, the...
1:05:28 Everything that I'm going through here has already been determined that it will be on the album so you'll certainly get it and I will certainly give you a copy I mean
1:05:39 and
1:05:49 and that's what I'm pondering right now is whether I think I'm ready...
1:05:53 for that or not, which is part of why we're
1:05:56 ...doing this, as I said, part of it is just my left hand acting up extra today, so I thought...
1:06:02 I'd do something much easier on it with playing the backing tracks here. But then also—
1:06:08 I am getting pretty close to, I've got to write four more songs.
1:06:11 you know I wrote the intro to another one yesterday. The thing with only being able to play for 15 minutes at a time makes song writing a little more challenging. Right now just some CBD oil that a friend of mine is maki...
1:07:08 ...had both CBD and THC according to the label. I wanna run it through a mass spec, because I think there is neither of the above in it. The other possibility is that Puricona has added a bunch of weird stuff like echina...
1:07:24 in the way that the commercial one isn't. But. experiment and eucalyptus for clotting scent but the stuff that she has definitely adds a heavy, you know, cannabis smell to my shoulder, which is right next to my face so I...
1:08:09 My nose can determine there is no cannabis-y smell at all to the stuff that I bought so I'm gonna try again to see if I can find some THC and the other thing I can do is my friend who makes it, we can make some
1:08:22 ...or with THC we just can't... The nice thing about CBD is it's easy to transport, as opposed to...
1:08:29 to the THC which is not necessarily legal to send via.
1:08:31 But you know, FedEx. And
1:08:34 I spend enough time doing things that might annoy the government that I generally try to avoid giving them any opportunities to fuck with me.
1:08:41 My friend who made this for me is an explorer right now, but when she comes back, you know, I can ask her if it's possible to send you a vial of something to add to yourself. Yes, and probably what it would do is just ge...
1:08:59 may be get it from Laurel in person and then carry it up rather than mailing it because it is still a federal crime to mail THC Sad as that is There there is a bill on the floor to change that but
1:09:15 you know, Mitch is gonna let that happen about the fifth of November. Okay, so so for our last one I think I'm gonna do another original here and this one is- I think this is shorter I hope I know the lyrics to two
1:09:34 one of which is a traditional House of the Rising Sun and the other is
1:09:38 This is History of Modern, which you have already heard. And I really like my recording of House of the Rising Sun, it's of all the, all the covers I've done, I think it's the one that I'm the most impressed with, and it...
1:09:56 All of these, pretty much. So like in the This Too Shall Pass you heard the lead guitar in the solo is my friend Gabe, everything else is me. And in this one, everything is me except
1:10:08 for a couple of the Toms which are my friend Rhys. So it's actually... Let's go to the beginning here. But this is another original. This is Holes.
1:10:31 (unidentified song) unidentified
1:11:56 I was having a hard time seeing into the lyrics at first because I was distracted by the.. it almost sounded to me like a sound effect from the electrical break and it's just like a little qu qu qu qu qu qu qu sound and ...
1:12:23 We are well beyond the limits of what Zoom ever intended to send
1:12:27 here. I can't imagine how...
1:12:46 But I can't imagine how anything designed to send voice
1:12:54 This 64 track wide...
1:12:57 Pink Floyd-esque soundscape that we've got going on here.
1:13:01 But, uh... My guess is we're running across something that's intended to be suppressing feedback, doing something weird to the signal. But I can send you the track as an mp3 if you want to listen for yourself to verify t...
1:13:26 There is something that goes tikka, tikka, tikka, tikka that some people find odd.
1:13:29 But
1:13:33 And there's some whale song later. All right.
1:13:38 so i'm going to, i'm going to sing along with it this time, which, which... yeah, that'd be good okay do you want me to just try and take mental notes on words that i can't understand or do you want me to speak up right ...
1:14:07 (unidentified song) unidentified
1:16:54 we just we go through yep okay well so
1:17:07 I figured out what it what it probably is um by listening It's what's happening when you squish the song to mono. Um, there's a there's a um, there is in fact something that is kind of like
1:17:20 but it's split across the two channels and when you combine it you end up with that effect Yeah Okay. You know, I don't have a lot of notes on it. You have to understand the words and there wasn't necessarily anything th...
1:20:24 That's acutally so that I'm going to the alchemy data cell
1:20:28 which is across from John Wayne. It's on Jamboree, right next to if you know where, where kind of Michaelson and Jamboree or MacC�ther and Jamboree, sorry. The fur building in my dad's worked his first two years Yep No...