I spent about 5 hours straight recording today while body-doubling with a friend on Discord ​ For someone nearly allergic to the tech-side of music, this is basically a miracle ​

That said, this session reminded me of just how difficult recording is. In live settings, rhythm issues tend to be the "miscounted note/rest values" sort because you can see each other and use your eyes on top of your ears to stay together and get in the groove ​

With recording, even with the metronome going in the background (sometimes especially with the metronome in the background), it's all too easy to get the jarring de-sync that you can hear happening in this draft of the recording ​ If I played like this in a live setting even a little bit, I'd probably have people worried that I was having a stroke ​

​ The single hardest part in this whole arrangement is actually the bass part with its steady quarter-notes. I say "steady" as in "they're supposed to be steady", and not, "they're easy to get steady"

Still, the piece has taken shape, and I feel like I can actually see the finish line now (this is totally ignoring the taking of any videos for this because...yeah...I reeeeally don't want to deal with video in my current state). Hopefully, I can do some more takes in the next few days that are a bit tighter together and get this out

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p.s. Can you tell me whether you can listen to this or not? I knew I had problems with .wav and .mp3 files in the past so I rendered this as a .ogg file.