TAKE THAT, PRIMUS!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA "Let Me Help" gets a bass guitar solo TAKE THAT PRIMUS!

Really, it's far too sedate to be compared to anything Primus - "Let Me Help" is Dick Tracy Must Die's only slow song, a ballad that I wrote to Anna, and I mean, I've only been playing bass a month, so, um, yeah. But it is an actual bass solo, and it's totally the right thing to do here. I'll need to re-record parts of it 'cause I'm only good enough to fake it in studio, not get it all right in one take, but the idea is down now.

(Jazz background peeking out? The deuce you say! Hi, have you met my flutework?)

Really, things are moving along pretty well. "Let Me Help" got a couple of new tracks today (including BASS SOLO lulz) and some more remixing, and I fiddled a little more with "Thought You Knew" and even "Artefacts" which got some more mixing clues added and they help. And I discovered (as was kind of inevitable) what kind of driving bodhran line "Stay Away" is going to have. Productive elf is productive.

actually…

…it looks like I can edit together two takes I already have. They’re really pretty reasonable. A couple of timing issues but nothing I can fix with tiny snips, and there are a couple of places with a bit of level issues (a couple of notes are a tad hot, a couple are a little too restrained) but I need to learn automation anyway, and it’ll be a good exercise. (Not just for here.) I could fix the three or four problems with that, and maybe should do. And most importantly, Anna likes it. ^_^

This song is mostly on the high end – it’s all mandolin and percussion – so having a bass solo over the bridge really throws it into tonal balance. The bass is as big a surprise here as the flute is on “Artefacts,” but without the shrieking. Ha! I wish I’d thought of that on purpose. Maybe in the liner notes I’ll call it an intentional counterpoint.

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