Slow Sounds

Done and done. My Swedish class is officially over. The exam went well. It's not really the sort of class where you'd ever get a grade. But, I'll go ahead and give myself an A-, B+ maybe. It's all about actually using what I've learned now before I start to forget everything. That's my summer mission as my sweet will be here for a couple months making sure I never tell her what time it is or ask her if she liked the food in English ever again.

My weekend was spent holed up in my room, eyes glued to an eMac while I pushed Garageband's capabilities to extremes. "I think I need another track of that looped tambourine." Done. "Oh shoot, this is sounding a little thin, better add another snare hit to every fourth beat and right before the forth beat before the chorus comes in." Added. I possibly went overboard but ended up not using every track in the final mix. Even though Garageband is sort of on the minimal side (and the cartoony icons of the instruments are a little childish) I think it's a quality program. And, the fact that it's basically free (comes installed on Macs now) was a big plus in my decision of which program to use.

So the next step is to actually leak a song or two out to the public. I've really been holding the songs under lock and key simply because I wanted to make sure I was happy with what the final products were. I didn't want to jump into anything and regret it later. But it seems that all is well at this point. So, later this week expect at least one MP3 posted here.