Halima-day

Time to finish the job. Halima, my Iranian friend, has been working on a song for quite some time and has struggled to get it to a point where she's happy with the result. A few weeks ago she did four takes of the song-part and we've had one session since then where she has to choose between the best parts of the takes and I help her to glue them together in a new "perfect", track, the way she wants it to sound. 
She's learned that working like this takes a LOT of time. We spent hours getting the first part done before Christmas and today was the day for doing the last two parts. She said, don't worry, it was the first part that was the most difficult, the next two will be quick. I didn't respond to that.

She arrived half past ten this morning and she started at once changing some things in the part we already done. Quickly she realised that would take too long so we got started with the new bits. She asked me: "How do you navigate in the song when I want to hear things over and over"? I showed her and after a short while she was doing nearly all the work herself and I could do other things like going shopping, preparing food and coffee and so on. Lovely. This way she really got a hands on experience to what it's like working with music editing and she was so proud when she'd finished. By then it was six in the evening and she'd been working flat out for seven and a half hours with short breaks for food and coffee. A good, productive day and a learning one for her.