30 Day Rock Fiasco, continued...

Methinks a change of strategy is in order.
To this point, I've been working in my typical piecemeal, pomo fashion, as follows:

• guitar and / or keyboard chunklets are collected and catalogued
• lyrical bits are written in a notebook and later matched up with said chunklets
• drums are recorded to a click track to be married up with said lyrics and chunklets
• sessions are assembled and massaged ad nauseum

Now, if I didn't have a job and a family and all the other bourgeouis trappings, I would be able to live at the studio and do this and in about, oh...say 30 days, I'd have a finished record of some kind. This method has actually worked rather well for my electronic stuff, but tracks take months or sometimes years to coalesce. I have active sessions right now that started in 2004.

The songs that were started this way will be finished this way. I think I will, from this point (or as the suits say, going forward), work thusly:

• I will write vocal melodies and guitar parts together, mostly
• lyrics will follow naturally, one hopes
• I will then arrange the "song" and record it to a click in its most essential form
• drums will be added as needed, either via Mitch or electronically
• the thing will then be quickie-mixed and called done, in all its 24-bit lo-fi glory

I have two weeks from today.