Progress at Last

A few days ago, me and Christian recorded the forth and tentative final recording of our first song. Although he seems quite satisfied with it, I am not. The reason he is satisfied with it is because I hit all the notes properly. The reason I am unsatisfied with it is because I know I can sing it better but for some reason I am unable to. I know my voice is better than that recording (but Christian doesn't), so, logically I would want the recording to be the best possible. The strange thing is that on my way home after recording on Monday, I sang it much better in my car, just to prove to myself that I could sing it better.

Also, while we were not recording for these past few months, and unbeknownst to me, Christian had recorded multiple tracks with the differing instrumental parts. We now have a near complete song. All it is missing (aside from my more awesome voice) is the intro and the guitar solo.

We also have another song to work on as well. I just need to find the right words and melody for it.

[_] 1 (Square One)

So last night I went to meet a guy who was interested in recruiting a vocalist for his band. I wouldn't quite say it was a disaster, but it didn't go as well as I would have liked. He sang three of the songs so I could get a feel for the music style. Although he was very adamant about it not being Blues Rock, it sounded like Blues Rock to me. The singing parts were very monotone sounding, and he also made it clear that there were no fancy intro's or guitar solo's in any of the songs. Unfortunately, intro's and solo's are two things that I really like to have in a song. I think a good intro sets the mood. He also said that I wasn't singing loud enough, which was interesting because I always thought I sang too loud, but it was hard to sing that style the way I'm comfortable with. I don't think I sang it bad, I just didn't have the right voice for that particular style.

So after semi faking interest in their project, I realized that if I sincerely don't have much interest in their band I would only be doing them more harm than good by pretending to have interest. So that's what I told the guy. I told him I was sorry to have wasted his time but that I couldn't pretend to have interest when in reality I had none.

So it's back to where I was before. But I am still going to meet Christian tomorrow to work on our song, so that's a good thing.

Here is the part where I look into the future and say that someday it will all work out, but not entirely believe it. It's so easy to say that things will work out in the future, but believing it is something entirely different.