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Well its a little too cold to do any drum recordings out in the garage so I decided to try an online service called Live Studio Drums from Smart Loops. It's interesting. You upload an mp3 with mix of your music and a second one with a guide drum track. You fill out a form with some basic information about the song and then studio drummer Frank Basile plays drum tracks for you. Once he is done you download the nicely recorded tracks and import them into your song.

I decided to give it a try with a short quirky piece called "Picnic at the Slag Heap". I got my tracks back after a week, with the comment - "this piece was fun but certainly no picnic".

Frank did a great job on the track and I finished the bass guitar track this evening. Frank isn't the only guest appearance on this track...but that's another post.