. It's just the room where I keep all of my gear. What should I look for to determine that?
Funny, I'd say the opposite. Put your money on a pony !
That's the way to approach it. Many times, a session has been really frustrating and I've gone to bed that night seething with rage and howling at the moon with frustration. But I know that with determined perseverance, it will come good. It might take years ! I had this piece {"The Logacta question"} that I'd been writing in my head for a couple of years. It was wild, it had 4 different time signatures and to further complicate matters, the piece kept going from one to the another, hardly settling, before changing. My drumming friend and I tried recording it over a few weeks and I knew the bit so I didn't have much problem with it. I'd even done a 4 track demo with me knocking out the drum pattern ~ish but this just eluded us. Then one day I said right, we're going to nail this ! And we did 30 takes, probably the most I've ever done. And it just didn't sound right ! We had headaches at the end. But in the end with the help of a secondary drum track, me playing conductor and some tablas, we got there. It's rough and raw but I love it. It was a labour of love, I think.
Well, that depends on who delivers the knockout blow !