{"id":79,"date":"2006-12-20T21:30:16","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T05:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbueno.com\/wp\/meisakuki\/2006\/12\/20\/be_it_resolved_1\/"},"modified":"2006-12-20T21:30:16","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T05:30:16","slug":"be_it_resolved_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/2006\/12\/20\/be_it_resolved_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Be it resolved, 2007 edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I uttered to myself, &quot;I ought to be doing &#8230;&quot;, I knew I had the makings of a New Year&#8217;s Resolution.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve already put myself on another <em><a href=\"\/meisakuki\/entry\/2900\/\">shinkyoku moratorium<\/a><\/em>, with an action item list to last me through the year.<br \/>\nOne of those items is &quot;Continue to finish the songs written up till now, Oct. 29, 2006.&quot; I spelled out that vague statement in <a href=\"\/meisakuki\/entry\/2923\/\">painstaking detail<\/a>, and two task seems to bear repeating: &quot;Rehearse lyrics&quot; and &quot;Record vocals&quot;.<br \/>\nYou see where I&#8217;m going with this.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI bought a second mic stand so I could set up my dynamic mic as a rehearsal mic. I didn&#8217;t want to keep readjusting my first mic stand whenever I had to switch between rehearsing and recording.<br \/>\nThing is, I haven&#8217;t been rehearsing. So that second mic stand isn&#8217;t really being utilized. I guess it&#8217;s high time I start utilizing it.<br \/>\nHere, then, is my New Year&#8217;s Resolution for 2007.<br \/>\nBe it resolved that one (1) Gregory E. Bueno rehearse singing his own songs at least four times a week for at least 1\/2 hour a day, with the intent to rehearse everyday for an hour.<br \/>\nOf course, I have dispensation for illness which effects my voice. Colds and allergies can put a kibbosh on such activities.<br \/>\nIf I&#8217;m busy rehearsing the songs I&#8217;ve already written, I won&#8217;t be tempted to compound the amount of work I&#8217;ve already piled on myself by writing more material. Now that I found an elusive patch for the Kawai K4, I&#8217;ve been thinking about re-recording one of the first songs I wrote on the synthesizer, perhaps fashioning a dance album out of it.<br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve recorded four hours worth of material, and I&#8217;ve written words to music I don&#8217;t even know. That has to change.<br \/>\nI still have the other items on my <em>shinkyoku moratorium<\/em> action list to get through as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I uttered to myself, &#8220;I ought to be doing &#8230;&#8221;, I knew I had the makings of a New Year&#8217;s Resolution.<\/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-79","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-1h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}