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And now, our first real recording of our formerly untitled song, “where we belong!” The lead guitar part needs a lot of help in terms of mixing (during the bridge). There was also another guitar part for the chorus, but it sounded bad, so it’s being cut until I rerecord it. There will probably be some drums in there at some point and we’ve also been experimenting with keyboards, so we’ll see what happens. I’m also not totally sold on the harmony vocals yet. Otherwise, I think it’s coming along nicely.

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Well, I had some free time today, so I thought I’d get some mixing done today instead of waiting for the weekend. Surprise! Anyway, this is the newer version of “older.” We changed it so there is one guitar part and one bass part (which needs fixing) rather than mucking everything up with more guitars, although we are going to add back in the soloing. We also added some vocal harmonizing, mostly to experiment with, and a new transition before the chorus (which we are working on lyrics for). There is a drum part, but it hasn’t been recorded yet.

Navid and I got together today for some much needed recording time and a little bit of jamming. I’m going to try to get some rough mixes of what we did up on the site this weekend, but I should definitely have stuff up by the end of next week. We re-recorded the vocals for “tell her,” even though I said it was finished (the lead guitar needs to be re-recorded, too, I was just being lazy), we recorded “where we belong,” which is the new title for our formerly untitled song, and we reworked and re-recorded “older” so that it doesn’t sound awful anymore (in fact, it sounds quite good now). We’re taking it in a bit of a new direction, so I might leave some parts of it out of the posted version until we figure that out. Anyway, stay tuned!