{"id":46,"date":"2005-08-09T09:07:08","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbueno.com\/wp\/meisakuki\/2005\/08\/09\/fables_of_the_reconstruction-2\/"},"modified":"2005-08-09T09:07:08","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T17:07:08","slug":"fables_of_the_reconstruction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/2005\/08\/09\/fables_of_the_reconstruction-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fables of the Reconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like the next project I&#8217;m working on is a reconstruction of my old demo, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregbueno.com\/ghost\/\">A Ghost in My Shadow<\/a><\/i>. I spent this past weekend reconstructing &#8220;Strivers for a Better Tomorrow&#8221; and &#8220;No Exit&#8221;.<br \/>\nIn the past eight months, I&#8217;ve managed to reconstruct 11 of the 13 tracks I originally put online. There are many more tracks that I&#8217;ve left off from the original cassette tape (<i>A Loss for Words<\/i>), one or two I have no intention of re-recording. (I won&#8217;t rule out pillaging them for spare chord progressions, melodic phrases or lyrics.)<br \/>\nSix of those tracks are being redistributed to other projects. The remaining seven will probably end up elsewhere as well. Some may just remain outtakes.<br \/>\nStill, the momentum started when I considered putting &#8220;Faith in Religion&#8221; &#8212; the lyrics of which I seriously need to update &#8212; on <i>Imprint<\/i>. After that, I figured I may as well work on the old stuff while I take a break from trying to hash out new material.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve noticed a few impulses that keep creeping up on me while I work on these songs &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> I need either to get serious about improving my guitar-playing or to find a guitarist. &#8220;No Exit&#8221; is driving me mad because it&#8217;s a guitar song, and I can&#8217;t fucking play guitar! No matter how much I tinker with it, it will never sound the way it should. I also think &#8220;Faith in Religion&#8221; would sound much better driven by ethereal guitar effects than ethereal synthesizer effects.\n<li> I&#8217;m really tired of putting temporary melody tracks on these songs. I need either to get serious about singing or to find a singer. But I have a bad habit of writing melodies way out of my range, so I may have to go with the latter.\n<li> The Korg N364 has 500 sounds, and very few of them ever really do anything for me. I guess that dissatisfaction is how gear creep happens. Can&#8217;t find the timbre you&#8217;re looking for? Buy more gear. I so want to use Propellerhead Reason, but I need to buy an entirely separate computer. (Preferably a laptop.)\n<li> I dropped $260 on a used Kawai K4, and I keep resisting the urge to use it. The K4 has these odd habits that I won&#8217;t bore you with in detail. Suffice to say, it&#8217;s not the most user-friendly environment to work with the rest of my workstation, and it curbs my enthusiasm for employing it. No wonder I eventually stopped working on it.\n<li> I think some of these songs would really sound better if they were performed by live musicians.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reconstructing these songs, though, has a quicker pay-off than working on new material. It took two days to lay down the basic tracks for &#8220;Strivers&#8221; and &#8220;No Exit&#8221;. I took a week before &#8220;Choices&#8221; resembled something usable.<br \/>\nSo I&#8217;m just going for the short-term thrill for now and leave the more challenging work for later. What a lazy ass am I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just going for the short-term thrill for now and leave the more challenging work for later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkir-K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}