this rake's progress

So I mentioned a few days back that I had to write and record 11 tunes by August 18th. Didja notice I haven't been talking much about that? That's because I haven't been able to work on them -- I've been busy finishing up four (!) other projects. But I had a chance to write today, and made some good progress.

I finished charts for the surf-rock tune (it sounds like Dick Dale on Prozac), and I also tracked most of the lead guitar parts. I also finished charts for the jump band tune -- I'm pretty happy with the horn writing, so that one should be really fun to record. But I decided to scrap the soul/blues tune I'd started the other day... frankly, it was way to soulful and deep for the application. So I went back to the drawing board, and managed to get about halfway through more upbeat, funky soul/R'n'B tune, with the same instrumentation as before (think Booker T and the MG's with a 4-piece horn section).

I haven't even started the other charts yet, but I'll need to start booking musicians soon...