It was a rough, but pretty good, mix including everything. Only the countdown clicks, no click track. I think I was fairly lucky, as I hadn’t played a note in that mixed tuning, low 3 in D, top3 in G. I was hired to play pedal steel, but I didn’t think that was right for the tune. They headed out for lunch, and I ran to a nearby music store and bought a riser nut and put it on Neil Zaza’s acoustic. I had just gotten it tuned when they came back and I did the “run through” track. That tuning works well for songs in the key of E, and that cycle a lot between an E chord and a D chord.
“They headed out for lunch, and I ran to a nearby music store and bought a riser nut and put it on Neil Zaza’s acoustic.”
Brilliant. :^)
Did they keep the track due to time/budget constraints? Or did they just like what you were emoting with the voicings, feel, style? Or was it all of the above? I liked what you were expressing in the tune. Did the producer give you a lot of freedom on the track, or was he pretty specific?