The Song is You

Thumbs up for victory!

- The Song Is You.mp3
You know how when you get a new toy and all you want to do is play with it?
Cool feeling isn't it?

Well this post has nothing to do with that. Sorry.
In fact, this post has more to do with old toys...the kind you've had for a long time, the ones that you clutched to your chest when first they were new.

Reaper. My beloved music editor. My wicked good taskmaster. my music technology mutha-fletcher.

I've been away. Reaper didn't come with me.

I was building things...with tools that i held in my hands, saws and drills, clamps and hammers, not virtual tools, no VSTI's. Although come to think of it, it might come in handy to have a virtual hammer; I'd much rather have clobbered my finger with a virtual hammer than the 22-ounce number i did do it with.

Anyway, i dove back in today, back into the glossy pages of computer music recording. it was no end of fun for me. and although i'm not sure if Reaper missed me as much as i, it, we did shake hands and come out fighting for the lion's share of this mid-january wednesday.

The tune that happened to be on the top of my music is the one i chose to break my fast: a Jerome Kern classic called "The Song is You." It's a good thing i chose this particular tune because it's level of complexity, while belying the amount of tweaking it took to round up and capture, was comparatively low. i still struggled.

patience and perseverance was the order of the day. the methodical plodding offered weird comfort. although not exactly enjoyable, it was at least familiar. Moving from roadblock to stupefying barriers, virtual rampart to real frustrations, i lumbered through these like a drunken giant returning from his nightly pillage. it was inexorable. i burned through an entire day.

but in the end, i got it down. Quality? Questionable.

but in the end, i got it down.