Time Well Wasted

Today was the second Monday where I didn't have to school. Let me tell you now that I enjoy it so much. Usually, even though it's only been two weeks, I would do all my school work and readings today. However, I felt consistently distracted today from my reading, therefore I didn't really get much done.

What was I distracted with? Well, I've always wanted to record music to kind of see how everything sounds. I know a lot of music that gets released nowadays go through a ton of studio engineering to make it sound all pretty; so not a lot of stuff we hear now are really raw - straight out from the studio. In fact, the term "acoustic" has been somewhat redefined to mean this very concept of raw music. When someone does an acoustic set, I usually think of "natural". So nothing would be plugged in, no special effects or anything like that; everything you hear is what comes out of the mouth or instrument. But now, unfortunately, the word acoustic has been given a new territory.

Anyways, the first time I recorded myself, I thought it was the most hideous piece of music I had ever heard. From the vocals to the instrument, it was just downright awful. The strange thing was that I thought I sounded fine when I was recording, but I guess the voice you hear from yourself is never the voice that actually comes out. I wonder why, because I love the voice that I hear from myself, but not so much the one that's actually projected. So since then, I've always been a bit reluctant to sing, and at times even talk, because I didn't like my voice. But I knew that God gave me my voice for a reason, so I tried to embrace it and do everything I could to be better.

Well, anyways, another thing was that people had been saying that I'm good at guitar for the past 5 years that I've played. I never believed it, so I decided to see for myself by recording my playing once in a while, kind of hoping that it was just like my voice - horrendous. But, it turns out that it actually isn't too bad - way better than my singing.

So with my procrastination today, I tried to record a little section of one of my favorite songs. I just did the instrumental part and a couple excerpts from the chorus. I'm new to this whole sound editing thing, so the timings are slightly off and it's very raw and imperfect. Nonetheless, give it a listen and tell me what you think!

Oh! Sorry about the low volume. I don't know why my mic isn't very loud. But I'll try to see how to fix it.