We just had our first experience as a headlining band. We’ve always been an opening act so it was nice to have the opportunity to end the night. With the exception of a few minor mistakes, the new material written over the past couple weeks went fairly well.
We wrapped up the structure for song #3 today, and I must say I’m surprised with how it came together. Progressive material usually takes us a considerable amount of time due to less repeating of sections. However, the process of writing this song struck me as odd. We would be in a writing slump for hours, then all of a…
From time to time I’ll play a solo set with just me, my guitar, and my loop pedal at a coffee shop or festival. Initially I think Lee was a bit offended by the idea, in that it seemed like I was trying to go my own way with music and leave them out of shows; this was not the…
Meet our new camera! She’s a Canon EOS 60D, and she’ll be helping us film our documentary covering the 30 days of writing. To assist her (because she ain’t too good with audio) we have a BeachTek DXA-SLR to cut down on noise and increase clarity.
In the past I’ve always written the melody and lyrics on my own time with more or less my own themes. While this was usually the quickest option, we decided that because writing music was now a cohesive effort we should write the vocals together as well, since they obviously hold a lot of meaning in the song. This was…