shane richards wrote: > <snip< > Started this time last year with 8 songs. > Cut back to 4. > Wrote another 12. > Cut back to 9. > Sent demos of 9 songs to musos/engineers whose opinions matter to me. > Cut down to 3 songs. (Which have all been re-recorded/arranged) > Recorded another 10 songs. > Keeping critiques of aforementioned friends in mind - back to 9 songs. > Wrote another 5. > Played and played and played those tracks to many people, noting what > seemed to please and what didn´t. > Down to 7 songs, in the process of writing one last piece, then call it > a day and unleash my crap on the world. > > So that will be 35 odd full-recordings, many rerecordings and > rearrangements to produce 8 tracks. That of course doesn´t include all > the stuff I wrote and forgot about, or pieces that just don´t fit. > Now that doesn't mean that the other pieces are necessarily "crap" - > wrote a lovely Ben Fold's Five-style ballad for my gf - but she's the > only one that will hear that. > Yes, Shane, and that is the "brutal" part of Hindemith's metaphor. Your work fought for survival and only the fittest remained after both you and your support folks were done winnowing... Frank _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
