{"id":85,"date":"2008-12-13T22:51:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T22:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/vexvox\/2008\/12\/13\/so_not_rock_n_roll\/"},"modified":"2008-12-13T22:51:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T22:51:11","slug":"so_not_rock_n_roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/2008\/12\/13\/so_not_rock_n_roll\/","title":{"rendered":"So not rock ‘n’ roll"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is how I'm going to get my work done — a spreadsheet.<\/p>\n

I did it before, when I was first laying down vocal tracks for 65 songs. I organized them by range, tackling songs with a broader distance between highest and lowest notes first. That spreadsheet is two songs shy of completion. (The remaining holdouts are some covers, which don't get as high priority as my own stuff.)<\/p>\n

This time, I'm breaking out the steps of the recording process — recording, mixing, mastering and, ultimately, releasing — and using software terminology to indicate progress on each track. Alpha, beta, release candidate, even no development. For now, I'm limiting myself to working on one album.<\/p>\n

It's so not rock 'n' roll.<\/p>\n

But that's what happens when a person spends 40 hours a week immersed in code. Some of that stuff just spills over into other things.<\/p>\n

Seeing this work laid out visually, however, gives me better appreciation of how insane it would be to work on all those tracks at one time, as I've pretty much doing for the past few years. That screenshot shows only the first 34 songs on the first sheet. The scroll reveals another 49. And that doesn't count the additional tabs — songs that haven't even been recorded.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I'm a busy bee.<\/p>\n

I have an idea of how I want to release all that work eventually. Putting enigmatics<\/em> out on CD was educational, but  even when (not if!) I finish, I'm not sure what I've produced merits the expenditures to make another CD. I may be recording my own vocals, but that doesn't mean I'm qualified to be singing these songs.<\/p>\n

For now, I should just concentrate on getting this first album done. With any luck, my new organizational technique will be unstoppable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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