What little I remember about last night’s session
KeithHandy posted in Pretty Pix on June 11th, 2009
This will be short, precisely because it’s what I would have posted last night had I not run out of time, and it’s not fresh on my mind anymore.
Here’s a pretty screenshot:
This is the “bluesier” remake of “No Outside After All”, in progress. My inspiration for the remake is an old recording of Billie Holiday singing “Yesterdays”. (Before you give me too much credit for knowing the music of this era, be advised that ’twas Fritz The Cat what introduced me to this song.)
Anyway, “slow” was “too slow”, and the crux of my objective…
You know what, I don’t really care about telling you anything anymore. All I really care about is playing with words. “Crux of my objective”. What a deliciously non-utilitarian linguistic flourish. Indeed. Kiss my feet, peeps.
Anyway, the C.O.M.O. was to make it not quite so slow, so I sped the first half of it up by 10%. This was too much a speed-up for the second half, so I only went 5% there. The section between the vertical yellow lines is actually the whole song, so as you can see/deduce, it cross-segues into another song from there. Thus, there was some care involved in not destroying the segue.
I made copies of the tracks, did the speed adjustments, and then slid them to where the new tail-end fell exactly where the old tail-end was. Then, I got rid of the original tracks and kept only the sped-up copies. The new beginning starts about 8 seconds later than it originally did, which means (for those of you who have a difficult time drawing simple conclusions) the song is now 8 seconds shorter.
Hooray!
