I’m mostly finished writing the sound track for America’s Next Felon.  All that remains is just fleshing out the sketches, mix ‘em and master ‘em.

The end is near — but this stage always takes surprisingly long. Like this week I spent over 2 hours polishing up drum sequencing to one heavy metal track that’s about 1.5 minutes long. It’s still not great, really, but it’ll have to do — with film music, I focus on the task at hand, which is to create an aural backdrop to what’s going on the screen. The music is not the focus — as long as it’s polished enough not to be distracting, it’s fine. But it’s one thing to sketch out music, it’s quite another to make it sound solid and “finished!”

Still, I enjoy this part of the process. It’s fun to see the ideas turning into realized pieces of music. A recording is a process where it just doesn’t sound good until the very end — until then, what I’m hearing is what the music can be, not what it is.

I’m slugging away at it. It will end.