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Curse of Hollywood

 In the early stages of this one… just got the initial strings demo back from Steve, which I’ll post in the Express Lane section momentarily.  This is an upbeat song with a straightforward/basic chord structure that’s going to rely on…

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Guitar Engines...

Had an interesting situation pop up this weekend with respect to the initial guitar parts for “A Different Kind of Weather”.  For a little background as to how these songs are built… I initially record demo parts for all of…

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Sequential Recording...

Been focused the last few days on redesigning and developing a few new merch items.  Just got the first sample of a line of bathing suits that I’ll be introducing for the summer looks pretty cool!

Also starting to go…

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Rewriting...

There are a great many relatively mundane aspects that go into managing a recording project on a daily basis.  For example... there are the mechanical aspects of preparing stems and lead sheets for the musicians, importing and exporting wave files…

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String Arranging...

Been out of pocket in terms of updates for awhile, but have made progress on quite a few tracks.  Will post the current in-process versions in the “Express Lane” section shortly. 

At the moment, working in earnest with Steve on…

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Capturing That Analogue Synth Feel...

Had a great teleconference this past week with Steve Turner (our illustrious UK-based string arranger), who is also going to be adding keyboard tracks for this next album.  Anyone who knows me is aware that I am an unabashed fan…

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Drums and Basslines...

Been spending a fair amount of time doing drum editing for the first few tracks of this next album.  It’s really quite an involved process.  When a live drummer is recorded, there are multiple microphones placed at different locations in…Read more
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An Overdue Update...

 Getting ready for a flight to Arizona; wanted to take a few minutes to provide a quick update.  We’re about to start moving forward with recording this album in earnest.  I started with the track “If You Won’t Stay” which…

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Back From the Mediterranean...

I’ve been reacclimating to daily like after getting back late Friday from a cruise in the Mediterranean.  I fortunately found some time and inspiration to finish re-writing the lyrics to one last song for the upcoming album, which needed a…

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