Today I was hoping to post some great progress on the song creation and release.  Although there has been progress, it’s not much and now I’m concerned I might not meet this month’s goal of Create, Record, Release a Song.

I did not work on the song at all during the week.  This past weekend I was only able to (or felt like) work on it on Sunday.  I did accomplish a couple of small items to check off my list.  I was able to get final drum tracks down and I was able to record a final bass track.  I hope to get some work done on the final guitar tracks during this week.  I need to re-record those without the mistakes.  That leaves this coming weekend for re-recording the vocals and adding any spice like a tambourine or shakers. That leaves next week for final mix down and release two Soundcloud and possibly a streaming site.  I’ll need to investigate more on that.  And I need to register the song with BMI if I plan on releasing it to a “Real” streaming site.

That is quite a list to accomplish but definitely accomplishable.  If I just get my ass away from the T.V. and upstairs to my music room.

The demo/prototype of the song is still up on Soundcloud if you care to listen to a quickly thrown together song idea.

I want to make note that in a previous email I had mentioned that I used Evernote for capturing ideas for stories, lyrics, how-to snippets and even drafting of these blog postings.  I have stopped using Evernote as of today after receiving notice that my annual subscription cost, that renews in September, will be going up $70, putting the use of Evernote over $100.  Last September the annual subscription was $35.  That price increase is outrageous for a note taking tool when I’ve got a perfectly good and free one on my MacBook.  So I have moved all my notes back over to Apple’s Notes tool (because I have an Apple laptop, desktop, iPhone and iPad).  Notes is where I used to keep all my notes originally but I was lured to Evernote for the reasonable price ($35) and some features that Notes would not do at the time.  Not so anymore.  This posting was successfully pre-written in Notes by Apple and I don’t miss Evernote.

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