This composition started on the classical guitar, standard tuning with a capo on 2nd fret. I started playing with the percussive sound made by my index finger on the fretboard, which you can mostly notice in the first part of the song. I also wanted to explore some harmonic changes that you can achieve with very small moves on the freeboard.

The song is about... patience! and give ourselves a break. Remember that things may take a while to develop and unfold.

I had fun setting up the recording of the classical guitar, which I mad with a mix of two condenser and a stereo mic.

One small diaphragm condenser was placed as close to the top of the fretboard as possible, trying to capture the percussive sound of the hammer-on.

The big condenser was instead pointing at my right hand, with the idea to capture the percussive groove of the arpeggio.

The stereo mic (Zoom H1n) was placed a bit farther to capture a bit of the room sound. The two condensers where pre-amplified with a SPL GoldMike 9844.

I would have love to start earlier (and not at 18 of a Sunday) to be able to record some extra takes and make additional edits. Especially, I would have taken some extra time to be sure to capture a great singing performance. Well, too late (I uploaded at last minute).

So, this is pretty much a rough mix, with very minimal EQ, compression and no time spent on mastering. Most tracks are first takes, no comping. So I will definitely make a new mix of this at some point.

Anyway, I'd love to hear your thoughts and I hope you'll still get the idea and some enjoyment out of it.

Here's a quick sketch to show the mic setup for the classical guitar.

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