Sorry I haven't posted in a few days...it was just one of those busy weeks. To make up for it, I'm going to make this post extra awesome...do you know how? That's right, I'm going to post a link to a little song I recorded over the weekend. Here it is. It's a pretty raw mix, with no automation or anything, but I think it sounds good.
I'm pretty proud of it, especially the bass lines and the overall sound for what I work with. One thing I did which was cool was sample my toms and add them later. Since I only have 2 inputs, I used an SM57 on the snare and an LDC out in front of the kick to get the kick plus some cymbals. This meant that while I used the toms sparingly, when I did you couldn't hear them at all. So, after I was done I sampled a tom hit on each with the 57 and then pasted them in new tracks where the toms should have been. It turned out sounding pretty OK, actually better than I thought.
Unfortunately I am not a great lyricist, so I don't have any words yet. The other day I was playing that cool little riff on my newly tuned piano, and decided rather than laboring over words that probably wouldn't turn out that well, I would just record it instrumental and try to be extra creative with the parts. Anyone want to write some lyrics and melody for me?
So that is what I spent much of my free time doing this weekend. Saturday was very relaxing as I was able to run and then work on that most of the afternoon. I saw Trenton Stokes walking down the road in Heritage Park while I was running, which was fun but very random. Apparently one of his kids had baseball tryouts or something. I just know that as this guy and his son kept getting closer I kept thinking, "that looks alot like Stokes."
Today proved to be an interesting one. This morning's service was probably the most diverse service I have ever been in. Starting out for the prelude the band did a medley of classic love songs. My favorite was definitely Matt's Aaron Neville imitation, which was hilarious. Then, Joe had produced a video with the pastors sharing some things they liked about their wives for video announcements. Some of the things were serious, some of them were funny. Instead of the usual band stuff after announcements, today Matt played did the doxology and "Holy is the Lord" with just him and the piano. I really enjoyed it, and it was also interesting to hear how he changed chords up from service to service since he didn't have to stick to a chart. I know my favorite thing about leading acoustic is being able to do whatever I want on the guitar.
After the songs we had a guest artist play 2 songs. His name was Rodrigo Rodriguez, and he is an extremely accomplished classical guitarist. Apparently his world travels brought him through Greenville, SC and he and his wife liked it so much that they decided to live here. He likes to play in churches as a way to worship with his musical gift, and somehow ended up coming to do a few songs at Southside. Normally things don't make me nervous when it comes to sound, but I did feel a little anxious about working with him knowing that he has probably worked with many people who have much more refined skills than I do. I thought it ended up sounding great though, and he was an amazing guitarist.
So then Brian taught, and after that the band came up along with 11 singers, and closed out with 2 worship songs and then a gospel feel special for the closer. Just a really diverse Sunday. Something about hit love songs, to stripped down acoustic piano, to classical guitar, to a couple regular band songs, to a gospel special seems crazy. I loved it though. The diversity in the music at Southside is one of my favorite things about the music, and today was definitely that at its finest.
We ate at Red Robin after church, came home for a little bit, and then went to community group. We've been on a break for a little bit, so it was good to see everyone again. Some of the conversation was very interesting also. Jay talked about his friend who keeps asking him, "Why can't I heal someone. Jesus says that with faith the size of a mustard seed you can move mountains, so why can't I heal someone who is sick? Do I really not have that much faith?" It was a really hard question for any of us to answer, and is a question I think I might ask a few wiser people about.
I had some cheesecake when we got home, we watched some TV, and then got into bed. I did finish working on a lab for class so that I wouldn't have to do it tomorrow morning. That leaves me open to run, eat a nice brunch, and then get some other things accomplished. I wonder if I'll see someone I know in Heritage Park again?
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