So, I’ve been working on a piece for the past, maybe, three weeks. I got this nutzoid bass track laid down and have literally spent every day agonizing over what the hell to do with it. I’ve tried or considered everything. Every freaking instrument and style. I lost count of how many muted and abandoned tracks I’ve got laid alongside this lunatic bass line, but it’s got to be over thirty. Ok, I just counted and it’s 64. A half dozen are midi and wav construction tracks, but still.

So about a week ago, I stumbled on a drum kit riff that was so perfect, it not only restored my faith in the track and my creative abilities, but it completely blew me away. This was Nirvana. Nothing could be better than this. And for the next week, nothing was. Once again I returned to experimenting, goofing around, fucking up and agonizing. Nothing worked. What third element could be added this this crazy piece? Nothing went. Everything subtracted from it rather than added.

And then yesterday, it hit me what I needed to do. I was away from the computer, thinking of everything but music, and blammo. It hit me. Next time I got up to my studio (that day), I sat down with a grand piano patch and nailed it. Holy shit… now I had a tune to die for.

So now I have a friggin bass line march-of-the-Lemmings-With-Guns, a trance-inducing drum track, and a piano that’s doing a a happy-but-determined little waltz.

The first three minutes of this piece are magic. Flippin Merlin-Harry Potter-Witches of Eastwick all drunk on a Merry-Go-Round magic. All I have to do now is not screw it up.