40 hours a week of music? Chegg!

Not too shabby given that I’ve been working 40 hours at my day job, have had two “mother’s day” false alarms, and finding time to do all the other horrid things into which life forces us.

Uhm.

The music gear I have access to these days is so far beyond dreamy. The problem is that I can’t get anything done…because I don’t know how to use it. And I don’t know how to mix with all this stuff, I don’t know how to deal with the clean perfection of digital.

Is studying necessary? Or should I be outsourcing? I don’t know. I’ve begun trying to get some estimates on mixing…ugh…nobody has gotten back to me.

My new plan is that if I have more than two hours of time, I’ll practice piano. If I have less, I won’t.

And as for simplicity, I think I’d like to go back to just my earlier constraints, when I didn’t have percussion equipment or nice amps and guitars to use, when I had only a gig of RAM, when I had six hours to write and record something new. And…I used to make it work. Now? I can’t get anything done because there’s just too many options, complications, and I’m pretty overwhelmed.