This past Tuesday, I put in more work on my 64-track recording in the studio between 2:30 and 10:30 PM. This time, I recorded Conor Barry on piano and Owen O’Brien on trombone. It took me four takes to record the piano and six takes to record the trombone.
Before the session, I had trouble trying to find sheet music for the trombone part for Billy Joel‘s Moving Out (Anthony’s Song). I couldn’t find any trombone sheet music for that song on Google, and neither could Owen. Owen said he only gets his sheet music from his instructor; he couldn’t get it anywhere else. I tried Googling the same thing for trumpet and saxophone sheet music, but I had the same problem. So on Tuesday, before we began recording, Owen and I figured out the trombone part by listening to the recording multiple times. Then Owen wrote down the notation on a piece of empty sheet music paper and practiced it over and over until he finally managed to nail it down, then I recorded him. After six takes, I fixed the trombone part to make it sound perfect. Other than that, Conor had the piano part nailed down and played it with ease, although it took four takes.
As far as the trumpet and sax parts are concerned, I asked my jazz band director, Professor Palance, for help, and he hed the same kind of problem as me. So he suggested that I try listening to the recording again and notating both the trumpet and sax parts, like Owen and I did the trombone part, and give the notation to my sax player and trumpeter.
So far, I’ve managed to fill up 18 tracks, but I’ve got some more musicians to record next, including a synth player, a sax player, a guitarist, vocalist, and a percussionist. Plus, I still have yet to find a trumpeter and possibly another guitarist, and I still plan to make a virtual instruments and add some car noises towards the end of the song. Overall, I making some progress, slowly but surely.