Christ advice
the letter tapes
12:11 am, technically january 8th
i’m talking to God right now because i’m challenged in the moment. i’ve never made or put out a bad song and i feel like every artist has to at some point. but i’m interested to see what this week will bring as i don’t know everything in store. i know what song i want to record, but ill be recording and releasing from my own bedroom, but i did do that with little lamb and people absolutely love that track , so it has been shown to me you can bring forth a good work
1:12 pm
yes, so I’m actually quite scared. This is like a situation I’ve never been in I’ve committed to doing this song week and the time between songs is just so short and I haven’t worked at this level before and it’s super fun and I’m super excited but this week in particular is interesting because I don’t have you know a song already ready to put out and so I have to create even if it’s some old stuff like I have to re-record it and everything and but I just want to continue to get better and better and better like the last couple songs that I put out are really really good. They’ve been building and getting better and better and better now it’s not the time for me to drop off and quality but this is also the first song nope nope nope little lamb was the first so this is the first song but i’m putting this song out fully mixing everything by me and so it’s also about the quality sometimes I’m like OK I might not have the best quality but like I know the song is a go cause it’s got juice on it. It’s got the oil anointing on it buthaven’t made this song yet and I just got all new equipment and so I’m gonna I’m learning those like I’ve been spending the last day or so just setting up so I can music again you know what that means so it’s exciting and it’s nerve-racking all at the same time
1/9/24
8:48am
I can tell im in the gap right now. Spiritually im between two places and the next move determines the rest of the course. I can feel He’s forming a glory in me that cannot go unnoticed. I can feel my soul crying out of my heart when we need him. I can hear knocking at my door, the kind where God wants to take another step forward in my life. Im letting Him in now.
10:01 pm
I had a succesful day in terms of output. I did over 250 vocal takes and probably kept 15 of them. 5 of which I will redo tomorrow. But compared to like 2 days ago this is actually some crazy progress and im just realizing that. Im not gonna lie sometimes in the moment it’s hard to see the steps forward especially when you’re only looking towards the place you want to be or the sound you want to hear. Ironic tho because the song im working on is called more than enough (I think.) I really love the chorus and I want too nail it. The timing of this song is a little choppy so that’s why I have to do so many vocal takes, and the fact that im recording myself makes this particular style of song more difficult where punching in and high energy is needed more than anything else. When doing so many takes its difficult to get a consistent output for all the takes and so over the course of you’re song, some flows and melodies or cadences are a bit different than you were first hearing them and you either die or adapt. Ok that a was a bit extreme crying lol but nah you do have to adjust, and in terms of recording myself there’s lots of room for growth and confidence. And yet this finished worked may be the key to unlocking this feat in myself. I do experience more of a lightness because im not going to put this song on Apple Music right away so ill get to see peoples reactions and the sound quality how it stacks up against my other work without much poison in the bottle. No clue what that means but I lost my train of thought and that’s the stop I got off. anyways tho yes a lot of pressure is kind of removed, even though the pressure before was forming a certain process and resilience that was working. But im grateful because now I will work in that same space of growth and urgency but without the loom of outside opinions tearing down my creative works.
1/13
So I decided not to upload the one ive been working on and instead I’ll pull out the last song I had in the vault. So now the reserves are out. Ive just realized it’ll take some time to get where I want to be on the mix front but step by step im gonna get there. The song im releasing is a very old song I recorded it in summer of 23, I never put it out because it isn’t consistent with my new sound. But im aware it may serve someone still so im gonna put it out. ‘CHRIST ADVICE.’ Hope you enjoy
