After last night getting all the boring bits of work out of the way, today I woke up at 12:30 feeling really genki. So I got to work on what I’ve supposed to have been doing all week, recording the demo vocals of the CD5 songs so I can then start on the orchestrations. And for the first time in ages everything just went really smooth! I have 16 possible songs to include on the new CD5, which will be boiled down to 8 themes either by musical factors or when they get tested in classrooms. And I actually sang right through 8 themes there are then. So that looks like the initial song selection. And they sound great!

All the songs had been written in my head, and are now on my computer, what I have to do is to now find cool arrangements for them, either by using samples, computer orchestrations, real players or having to write and play the parts myself. It’s a bit more tricky these days as the songs all have to sound different to the 30 previous ones, but when I’m on a roll like today it should be cool ( and fun). The first song I tried was the bugs song. I messed around with some reggae ideas ( I don’t have a reggae sounding song yet), but quickly settled on a production I’ve been wanting to use for a long time ( can’t say what it is otherwise it’ll give the surprise away!), and it just fits perfectly. Excellent. The kids are going to love it!

So a great day and as I’d felt like I’d done a solid days work, in the evening went out to the Hard Rock Cafe. Cool.