Today we started really getting into the fun stuff. For those of you who don't know, or who haven't been able to hear a lot of the "story" from our album, We wrap it up with a song I sing alone. Right now it is very stripped down plucking guitar and myself almost speaking, it is short and very direct. This was the one song that we didn't scratch yet. Our goal however with this song, and my personal dream for it while writing it - was to have the song grow and grow and grow instrumentally after the singing was over. Similar to songs like "Transatlanticism" By Death Cab for Cutie or " The first Day of Spring" by Noah and the whale. It is such an epic and beautiful song structure and grows stylistically to create sounds similar to that of Sigur Ros. We listened to a lot of exmaples of songs like this. They are typically in the 6 to 7 minute range and build slowly, we paid attention to what rhythms & instruments can give a driving motion to a build- it is SO EXCITING to actually create a song like this. If you haven't heard some of these examples, i highly recommend you listening to them right this minute. right now. go. I'll even paste links:
Death Cab: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNqQC7R_Me4
Noah & The whale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szbB-vLVnoQ
Ok are you back ? So yah, get excited, cus we certainly are! We started to build this song with acoustic tracking, electric guitar harmonies, and drums. ( mainly Kick Drums and a little on the snare/ tom/ cymbals )
Once we had the Drums mic'd up we went back and added percussion to " The first date song" & " As happy as I am "....Speaking of " The first date song " we WILL be giving these songs real titles one day..... one day.
We took a quick break for dinner and Scott & I of course got gyros. I feeling SUPER glutenous even got Ben & Jerrys. Yup. One scoop of cookie dough vanilla in a cake cone please. I'm a rock star. Once we got back to the studio we power housed through some more drums and Scott some how, fell asleep 3 feet away from a FULL DRUM SET being played for about 50 minutes. Waking him up from a deep sleep was truly hillarious. Priceless.
We wrapped around 11:20 and got some good sleeps in. :)
TONS OF VIDEO & PHOTOS FROM TODAY TO BE POSTED ASAP
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