{"id":540,"date":"2019-01-03T20:38:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T04:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2020-08-31T20:40:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T04:40:31","slug":"every-year-is-getting-shorter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/03\/every-year-is-getting-shorter\/","title":{"rendered":"Every year is getting shorter&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy New Year! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OK so I set myself a deadline for finishing Album#2 this year. Optimist that I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second half is dominated by a suite called &#8220;The God Program&#8221;. The music is 75% written; lyrics at 100% which is a good place to be. Now I have to take the existing demos and turn them into a finished product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working on recording the drums on one segment, which is slow going because I am an uncoordinated monkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other effort is to re-record the piano introduction. I composed this without regard for how difficult it was to perform (for me, anyway) and the demo suffers from a piecemeal and tweaked MIDI performance. I&#8217;m biting the bullet and learning how to play the piano part as an end-to-end performance. So far, it sounds like it will be worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! OK so I set myself a deadline for finishing Album#2 this year. Optimist that I am. The second half is dominated by a suite called &#8220;The God Program&#8221;. The music is 75% written; lyrics at 100% which is a good place to be. Now I have to take the existing demos and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}