In the Park

I spent today, recording a piece a music, that a friend and myself had come up with a few years ago, we gave it the title of In the Park.  It started out just me playing a couple of chords on the guitar, namely G and D7, and then my friend joined in witht he saxophone.  I just play those two chords over and over and he plays tunes over the chords.

Anyway, I have recorded it before, but thought it would be interesting to let the people on the course I am on, reocrd it.  I thought it could be a projet where everyone could have a go at getting involved, doing percussion, and singing.

The first thing recorded was the me playing the guitar, and playing the piece for about 5 minutes just over and over, on a guitar which was available at the college.  There were 2 microphones in place for the guitar one directly on the guitar and the other an ambient one.  It was done in one take, the saxophone was then recorded with one mic.  It was then decided to have some percussion so a little drum was put on it, again with two microphones, then a bass guitar was used.  There were students setting up the recording session, getting the sigtnal in etc/  There was another bit of percussion added on to the track just to fill it out a bit.  Towards the end of session, I could not hear the track properly and I think I need to get away from it for a while and listen to it with fresh ears, 

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