I wrote a song about a guy whose goldfish has cancer.
I was going to make a final recording in a kinda high school essay / draft style:
- First you fool around on guitar and when an idea sounds good record it.
- Then fool around on bass until it sounds kinda cool and record that.
- Add a drum track
- come up with a melody that fits with some rough lyrics
- re-record the guitar part so its less "individualistic" and will blend better supporting the melodic theme / structure
- Do the same for bass
- Find a drum sample of a real drummer playing at the same tempo
- Re-Record a final version of vocals that fits well within the more balanced version of everything else.
Unfortunately my guitar amp broke, so I couldn't re-do the guitar and
bass. Plus its 2 days late so I just slammed them together. I wanted
to do organ and a guitar solo, but wasted 2 days trying to fix the
guitar amp.
Pro tips
- Don't oversing when trying to record vocals over a clumsy mix of instruments. In my case, I get more nasal sounding.
- Everything takes forever, so just settle on the thing that sounds
pretty good and move on or else you'll spend forever on each thing and
never finish
Ishida