Comments on: One For The Road

One For The Road

InfidelZombie — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:08:49 -0800

A upbeat, country-ish number about a guy who'd like his girl to finish up that last drink so we can hit the road already...

By: Karlos the Jackal

Karlos the Jackal — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:21:00 -0800

I think it's a pretty solid skeleton! Are you going to flesh it out a little more? (I guess I'm thinking mostly about doing something with that drum track.)

With a more raucous (or just sloppier) rhythm track, I think it'd be pretty cool.

My favorite part is the guitar part -- I like those intervals.

How about putting bar sounds (conversation, cleaning glasses off the bar, etc) over the fade-out?

By: InfidelZombie

InfidelZombie — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:02:01 -0800

Good ideas Karlos. I did all these RPM Challenge tracks with drum loops, and I just didn't get a chance to add in any fills on this one. It's a little robotic without any variation, that's for sure.

I don't know if I'll do a rework of this version-- I mostly do these recordings as demos for the band, not as a final product. In fact, we were working on this song last night and it's turning out very different-- maybe I'l post it if the practice tape we did last night came out OK.

By: garfy3

garfy3 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:39:56 -0800

one thing that could also work--go quiet with the drum track / guitar track for a phrase, and let that vocalization of the phrase take on more significance. you could basically cherry-pick through your lyric lines and test this out on software to find a good "rest" spot.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:21:47 -0800

I dig it man. This is a great bar/drinking song.