First, I should probably figure out a timeline of sorts. I'm a fairly fast learner, but it is DT we're talking about. What's a good balance between consistency and pain-free fingers? I'm thinking roughly two weeks per track. Realistically, I can work out most of the rhythm parts of a song over a couple days and a solo over a few, so I really hope this should be enough time to learn, practice, and record a song.
Second, and perhaps more importantly, should I record a live cover version with video, all in one take? Or should I do what's safer and more familiar to me, which is recording a "studio" version of the song with multiple takes of riffs and solos, then making a demonstrative video later, basically, "finger-syncing" to get the highest sound quality possible. I do want a performance aspect of this challenge, because I believe that will make me a much better player, but I don't want to kill myself trying to get a perfect take of an entire Dream Theater song. What I've settled on is that I will do one complete live take of the rhythm sections of the song, and one complete take of each solo, and splice the videos together. I think this is a perfect balance of what I'm trying to achieve here, and will still be quite difficult.
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