There was a dry run of "The Sanctuary Song" just now and it wasn't recorded because it's been three or four days since the last go. Don't be thinking passion for this song has diminished in any way. Some things happened and I didn't even know about the Democratic debate until yesterday when I got an email from Bernie Sanders. That I didn't hear from anywhere else shows the woefully inadequate and deceitful job Wasserman-Schultz has been doing in running / promoting the debates for the DNC.
So things happened and now the music moves forward again. The ending of it has been questionable and the latest way sounds like the final. There had been a final huge chord with lots of dive bombing to end it but the outro works better to use the B-E strings to work back down the neck to the bottom and end it that way. The other was too brutal but this isn't too soft and feels right.
With more repeated play of the song comes some reluctance to go berserker and spray sixty-fourth notes all over the place. Usually it's best not to do that and I do want to be thoughtful about it but berserkers have huge passion, even if they're, well, immensely-destructive.
Note: the berserker is a machine designed by Harry Harrison, a great writer of sci-fi stories in which you're probably going to get killed. A berserker is like the Star Wars Death Star except it doesn't need humans to tell it when to destroy something because it kills everything it finds. That's the only job for a berserker so do keep an eye out for those.
Something was unusual in the audio levels and they should have changed by a factor of zero since the last time so that's a puzzle. The synth and drums were too loud and the guitar was relatively subdued. That will take some more piddling about but the things which change at this point are miniscule.
Mostly I hate dealing with all the smoke and it's kind of cool once it's going but there's a cost to breathing all that stuff. It's not toxic but you're still breathing a vapor with glycerin in it which you didn't need to breathe. The concentration is low but you will know it after breathing it for an hour. Well, maybe you won't but I do.
That's not a lament, it's only an explanation for being so penurious about recording. I'm passionate about the song but about the smoke ... not so much.
There's also a problem with lazy as those strings have got to change. In part it's to save the aircraft because there's a point where there's a big bend of the E string way down the neck and it's like I'm daring the string to break. That's stupid because a fresh string won't break from doing that. So lazy needs to get cured tomorrow. They have only been on her for a couple of months but even that is way too long.
To change the string, first the tension is taken off it by detuning it. Then the locking key is taken out of the tuning key so the string can be pulled back through it. Next, from the top of the guitar, jiggle the string so the ball on that end of the string drops out of the bottom of the guitar and then you can pull it out of there.
It's not exactly the reverse to replace the string. First poke the string from the back of the guitar through the right hole so it pops out the front of the guitar. Pull it through the guitar and bring some tension to it to ensure it seats correctly. Then feed it through the tuning key and pull it as taut as you can, flicking the string several times to ensure it really is seated correctly. When satisfied, put the lock into the top of the tuning key to hold the string and then use the tuning key to bring it up to tune.
When tightening the lock on the tuning key, it's important to be precise in how much you torque it because it's definitely possible to break them. It's only happened once in quite a few years of playing Godin xtSA exclusively with up to three of them at any given time but that's not something you can likely fix yourself so keep that one in mind, Lightning Boy.
If someone tells me it's a hassle to change the strings on an acoustic guitar, I'll throw a Kleenex and a Tootsie Pop (larfs).
So things happened and now the music moves forward again. The ending of it has been questionable and the latest way sounds like the final. There had been a final huge chord with lots of dive bombing to end it but the outro works better to use the B-E strings to work back down the neck to the bottom and end it that way. The other was too brutal but this isn't too soft and feels right.
With more repeated play of the song comes some reluctance to go berserker and spray sixty-fourth notes all over the place. Usually it's best not to do that and I do want to be thoughtful about it but berserkers have huge passion, even if they're, well, immensely-destructive.
Note: the berserker is a machine designed by Harry Harrison, a great writer of sci-fi stories in which you're probably going to get killed. A berserker is like the Star Wars Death Star except it doesn't need humans to tell it when to destroy something because it kills everything it finds. That's the only job for a berserker so do keep an eye out for those.
Something was unusual in the audio levels and they should have changed by a factor of zero since the last time so that's a puzzle. The synth and drums were too loud and the guitar was relatively subdued. That will take some more piddling about but the things which change at this point are miniscule.
Mostly I hate dealing with all the smoke and it's kind of cool once it's going but there's a cost to breathing all that stuff. It's not toxic but you're still breathing a vapor with glycerin in it which you didn't need to breathe. The concentration is low but you will know it after breathing it for an hour. Well, maybe you won't but I do.
That's not a lament, it's only an explanation for being so penurious about recording. I'm passionate about the song but about the smoke ... not so much.
There's also a problem with lazy as those strings have got to change. In part it's to save the aircraft because there's a point where there's a big bend of the E string way down the neck and it's like I'm daring the string to break. That's stupid because a fresh string won't break from doing that. So lazy needs to get cured tomorrow. They have only been on her for a couple of months but even that is way too long.
To change the string, first the tension is taken off it by detuning it. Then the locking key is taken out of the tuning key so the string can be pulled back through it. Next, from the top of the guitar, jiggle the string so the ball on that end of the string drops out of the bottom of the guitar and then you can pull it out of there.
It's not exactly the reverse to replace the string. First poke the string from the back of the guitar through the right hole so it pops out the front of the guitar. Pull it through the guitar and bring some tension to it to ensure it seats correctly. Then feed it through the tuning key and pull it as taut as you can, flicking the string several times to ensure it really is seated correctly. When satisfied, put the lock into the top of the tuning key to hold the string and then use the tuning key to bring it up to tune.
When tightening the lock on the tuning key, it's important to be precise in how much you torque it because it's definitely possible to break them. It's only happened once in quite a few years of playing Godin xtSA exclusively with up to three of them at any given time but that's not something you can likely fix yourself so keep that one in mind, Lightning Boy.
If someone tells me it's a hassle to change the strings on an acoustic guitar, I'll throw a Kleenex and a Tootsie Pop (larfs).
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