{"id":85,"date":"2011-04-03T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/post\/2011\/04\/03\/Progressive-rock-should-involve-some-progress"},"modified":"2020-08-12T08:57:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:57:55","slug":"progressive-rock-should-involve-some-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/03\/progressive-rock-should-involve-some-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive rock should involve some progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s April and I find myself sitting in the studio batting away at the <a title=\"Roland SPD-20 Percussion Controller\" href=\"\/blog\/post\/2005\/07\/24\/Roland-SPD-20-Pad-Controller\">SPD-20<\/a>, laying down some drum tracks on Painting Abstracts. That sounds like exactly where I was in November last year. Could this mean zero progress?<\/p>\n<p>Yes and No. In November, while starting to record some drums, I realized the bass and guitar were out of tune. So I re-recorded the bass. Then I realized that &#8211; given the recent shift in lyrical content &#8211; I would like to have some acoustic guitar behind the verses. Suddenly the whole damn thing was transposed down a tone, and the bass and guitars re-recorded. In the case of the acoustic guitar, capos and unusual tunings were used.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m back to recording drums. But it&#8217;s not zero progress. Of course, I&#8217;d like to be finished already, but at least it is forward movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s April and I find myself sitting in the studio batting away at the SPD-20, laying down some drum tracks on Painting Abstracts. That sounds like exactly where I was in November last year. Could this mean zero progress? Yes and No. In November, while starting to record some drums, I realized the bass 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-85","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\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}