Friday, May 19, 2017

"I Know She Will"

I haven't been recording much lately (for this project or any others), but I've been practicing my recently acquired flute almost every day for about a month, so I thought I'd record "I Know She Will" with an actual flute (rather than the fake flute setting on my keyboard like I used to do).  There are only seven pitches in the flute part in "I Know She Will" (F#, G, G#, A, B, C#, and D), so it's relatively simple.  Because it's simple and because I'm not very good at flute yet, I've been playing it a lot.  In my recording, I don't play the A G# F# phrase very cleanly because that's not the easiest transition to make at this tempo (at least not for me because I'm still a novice).  This was the first time I recorded my flute playing, and I think I placed the microphone too close because my breathing is audible in between a few phrases.  I feel I should also mention that I combined three takes.  So my recording isn't the best, but the genuine instrumentation makes it feel like I'm a step closer in accuracy.