52 to 40, Week 2: Lullaby For Friday
This was tough.
This morning, I had no song and only a rough idea of a melody. I wrestled with the lyrics for hours and hours until I hit upon the lullaby idea. While this was fruitful I won’t lie: Writing about how I feel about my kid had me crying like a baby for a good part of the afternoon. There are a lot of vocal outtakes with me choking up.
I’m too insecure in my lyric-writing ability to release something so lyrically naked under normal circumstances, but I ran out of time. So here is me with no impenetrable lyrical abstraction. Please don’t kick.
Gearwise, I recorded vocals, guitar and tambourine through my trusty Rode NTK straight into my MBox Pro 2. (I know, I know—the sad thing is I actually have a much nicer mic preamp.) The piano, organ, and Mellotron sounds came from my Nord Electro 3, and the Xylophone and toy piano sounds are from the Reason factory soundbank. (That awesome toy piano sound in the outro is actually a Thor preset!) The bass guitar is, I’m embarrassed to admit, from the Reason Bass ReFill. I just didn’t have time to play real bass this time. Recorded, mixed, and mastered in Propellerhead Record.
Only fifty weeks to go!
