yeah. the guitar part in this track is very percussive, in order to compensate for the lack of drums. it's also super busy. what that means is i'm going to have to go to town with this, and drum out the parts that the guitar implies. it should actually sound pretty wacked when it gets put together...

the thing with me and drumming is that if i had found one years ago...

i'd need somebody very good, and what i do is very weird, and i lived in a very artistically dead place most of my life. i should probably start looking more seriously in detroit. my chances are way higher.

but, because i've been in need of a talented drummer so long and been unable to find one, i've come up with various approaches. one of the things i can do is play each drum separately. it's slow, but the reality is that you want each part mic'ed separately for mixing. i can build up complex - and often unusual - parts that way. that's going to be what i'm doing with this, because all the fills are already written in the syncopation.

this could be a few days.

the other thing is that i can't loop this because the parts aren't in any kind of time. i tend to prefer not to anyways - if i'm going to use loops i'd rather use machines for them - but it's not an option, here.