 7.23.19  9:15 pm Hey thanks for the response bill, I figured that was the best and tried laying down a temp track, it just felt a little stale compared to the excitement of getting ideas for first time in a while and how good they sounded to me. is this just me being impatient to record and i should wait, or would experimenting with recording the guitar, adjusting it to tempo and then recording a final track of real time guitar?
these are 2 extremely different activities. it makes sense that you would feel lost trying to do a solo singer/songwriter 1 instrument+voc song as a full arrangement, and similarly it makes sense that it might feel impossible to take a full arrangement and perform it live with 1 inst+voc. they are completely different machines. the translation can  be made, but it might take a lot of experience to figure out how the heck it's gonna work. actually what i was explaining before is that they are such different things that i wouldn't recommend trying to get one to work like the other. you might just feel confused and frustrated. in other words, i would say don't try to play the same kind of guitar track. probably don't even use the guitar, or if you use guitar don't use the same one and don't play it in the same way, and definitely don't do that first. i was recommending doing the percussion first. that's just something i've learned from experience. not the drums, not the bass, not the chords, but actually the percussion. like shakers/tambs/hi hats, etc. ch-k-ch-k-ch that sort of thing. this is why you'll need to have your writing all zipped up at this point, tempo and roadmap need to be finalized in order for this approach to really work. if you're curious as to how to learn how to run such a complex operation, i would suggest starting with songs less than 5 seconds in length