And so, my one month of holidays come to an end. The entire 31 days, I’ve been working on a single piece of music – we’ll call it “Funes”, just so I can give a handle to it. The first three weeks was spent entirely on the drum track. I’d ripped the original percussion out of the piece at the end of June (it just wasn’t working) and the fairly simple brush riff I’d developed to replace it practically screamed No Loops! So yeah, three weeks of doing subtle variations on the riff – six minutes worth, to be exact.

The last week was all about mixing the dang thing. I really wish I had more time to work on music. It amounted to only an hour or two a day.

Once more, I’ve created a Frankenstein piece that is not much like any other chunk of music I’ve ever heard. Grand piano, classical guitar, jazz brush kit, electric guitar, fx. It sounds like a stretched-out theme for a high-brow HBO crime drama that occurs in the halls of a Spanish Julliard. Yeah, I know. WTF. But I guess that’s the kind of music this little brain of mine likes making.