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MISTER FUSTY: Making an Album - Part 354
03.04.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

This is the last of the “Making Album Number Three” blogs. I’ve bored you enough with my tedious accounts of fumbling my way through making an album!
So I shall keep it brief.
If you want a percentage I would say I’m about 75-80% done. I have 8 tracks pretty much finished. I need to come up [...]
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MISTER FUSTY: Making an Album Blog Part 6
01.27.09 | Permalink | Comment?

It was my birthday recently (hooray) and I turned 37 (oh…). You can see in this picture I’m wearing a rather nifty t-shirt bought for me by my wife, it’s not that clear in the pic but it says “I Need To Score” and features pics of several movie soundtrack heroes of mine, like Morricone, [...]
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MISTER FUSTY: Making an Album Part 4
12.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Remember that track I told you about in the last part? “Make a Stand“? I tried to record a brand new chorus and changed the instrumentation around but I’m still not happy with it. So I think the chorus needs another go, but I’m going to leave it for a bit. Sometimes it’s best to [...]
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MISTER FUSTY: Making an Album - Part 3
12.01.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I have learnt an important lesson today. I really must play the guitar more often for two reasons.
1) So when I play for the first time in ages my fingers don’t really hurt.
2) So when I record myself I don’t sound really bad due to my lack of abilities as a guitar player.
After a few [...]
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Mister Fusty: Making an Album - Part 2
11.02.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Hooray! I have another track finished! I’ve got a few songs floating about now but I either hate the vocals on them and will have to try them again or I’m just not sure if they are good enough. However, I was fiddling around with a drum loop and bass line I created last weekend [...]
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Mister Fusty: Making An Album - part 1
10.20.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

So I’ve decided to write a blog on the making of Mister Fusty’s third album. That difficult third album, even more difficult as I’ve decided to add vocals this time and as I’m discovering it makes things a lot more time consuming!
This blog is not going to be a ‘this is how I did this [...]