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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:ES'>Andy asked how we went about doing our “long distance” recording:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks, Andy. I sent our drummer an idea of the tempo I wanted, and the arrangement of choruses, solos, ending, etc. He then laid down the drums according to my “arrangement”. Next, the pianist played along with the drums, followed by my singing & playing along with those two recordings. Next, the trumpeter added in his bits, followed by the bass. Our drummer put it all together on a program he has on his Macintosh computer. Don’t know what the program is, however, he says it is complicated & he’s just learning. The drummer then redid his drum track to fit in with what we had all done.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>This is much the way most of the recording sessions I did during some 30 yrs of session work. The rhythm section would lay down their tracks, then the winds would come in, followed by the strings, followed by the vocalist. Terribly clinical! Funny story: when I was producing, I often used around 20 in the winds, and 35 in the string section. I only once booked the brass after lunch. From then on, I always booked the winds in the am, and the strings in the pm. Note…..Spanish lunch usually includes: before dinner drinks, a bottle of wine with the meal, after dinner drinks & even maybe a cigar! (By the way…I DON’T do that!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Back to our recording. Each musician listened on their computer to the mix of audio recorded previous to their additions while recording on their smartphones the video & audio of their “bits”. Not a very musical way of working, and not really musically satisfying at all. Knowing each other in the band so well, did allow each of us to leave a bit of room for the other guy to fill in, particularly speaking about any interplay between myself & the trumpeter. I knew what he would be doing, more or less, after me, and left room for him to do it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Anyway, I decided to try to put together an altogether new song for us thinking that might be a little more fun than just banging out one of our regular tunes. It was mainly for our fans to enjoy while we still can’t perform publicly. The result is nice enough, but as I said, the work itself is tedious & not at all enjoyable.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-language:ES'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>