Curse You, Whiteness!

I am burned yet again by the yellow ball of shiny in the sky. It's too shiny and hot! And it decided to burn only my right arm and right side of my face. On the good side of news, it was a brew day today in which I took home a few bottles of the beer we bottled two weeks ago AND a violin! WHOOT! My brew partner had a violin in his house that he wasn't using, but wants to get lessons for eventually. So I get to keep it for the next two months until I go away for the summer, which is very exciting for me. I was renting a violin for the past few months, but it's not as good as this one and not as FREE! Hopefully I can make more time to play with it than I've been able to before. Yesterday at band practice, we finished recording 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd, finished recording 'Telephone Line' by Electric Light Orchestra and my director just sent me what's called the scratch track for 'Over The Hills And Far Away' by Led Zeppelin. A scratch track is something used for recording purposes which includes a metronome tick in the recording and a rough guitar or piano track that outlines the song so the studio musicians can practice with the track and that's what they'd record over in the studio. The rough guitar or piano track is eventually deleted once the guitar player or piano player lays down their track. The order of recording for a rock band usually goes as follows: scratch track, drums, bass, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, keyboard if there is one, strings if there are any, backup vocals, and finally lead vocals. And tonight I'm going to record my romantic song in my "room studio" with my condenser mic and my door closed. Then tomorrow, Brittney and I are headed to Fort Lauderdale again to try and get some money for playing music on the boardwalk! I'm excited, so I'm going to go rest up and pray that this sun burn at least dampens a bit before tomorrow.