The process: I hear a song and I react, "That's catchy!" I listen again. And again. I hear the song in my dreams and must learn it. Or at least, learn to play along with it. I feel rippleshock, which is an intuitive must before I'm sufficiently motivated to move on.
Such was the story with Calvin Harris' "I'm Not Alone". I heard the Pendulum cover before the original. (Pendulum are garnering a nice history of unlikely-but-superb covers and remixes.) So I tried to figure out the chords.
Yesterday, got Arturia Analog Factory. 3,500 vintage sounds, all in software. After some monkeying around with the 2.2.1 upgrade, booted it up and thought, "A lot of these sounds are reminiscent of the 70s and 80s… and who lives in the 80s? Calvin Harris!" Well, in his own admission, he uses older equipment but doesn't go out to replicate it like overtly electro-house contemporaries. So I noodled around and got familiarized.
Then. Positioned my windows.
(Made sure webcam was working.)
Then. Started up ScreenFlow.
This.
Short hair thanks to my wife, who gave me a compound haircut. (Since I already got hair shortened a lot just weeks ago.) I'm getting closer to being bald. I feel more aggro when I have less hair.