Day 2 has come and gone and we got some serious work done. We started right where we left off, with 'Legend' and like we thought it needs a serious overhaul. Some of Travis' critiques included, "this song has no repeating parts, this isn't classical music" and "any other band these 3 riffs would create an entire song." Sooooo between now and our next preproduction date, February 19, we have to rework that bad boy which hopefully shouldn't be too tough since it has 16 different parts, haha.
Moving on we started to work on our newest song that is currently untitled which went over much better. We have one rhythm part to tweak and make more aggressive but this will definitely be the heavy hitter on the record. Vocals between Molly and Cody need some more work on lining up so they can compliment each other better. Travis suggested that we go through songs part-by-part and decide who has the dominant role and restructure the other to be more complimentary.
We also had a genius idea on a concept for our first music video which started off by Nolan telling Jacob that he should use pretzel sticks to replace drum sticks. From there it involved into an entire music video where food replaces all of our instruments. Starting off with Jacob's kit; pizza for cymbals, a punch bowl for a snare, pumpkin as a bass drum, and a different variety of larger fruits for toms like watermelons and such. Drumstick evolved into licorice ropes, the 3 ft. kind. The guitars will be the big party subs from Subway and Nolan's bass will be a bass, yes the fish. Amps will be gigantic cakes and finishing with the vocalists, Molly requested a blue raspberry snow cone and Cody a corn dog.
Next time we are working on 'Depths' and hopefully a reworked version of 'Legend' which leaves us with some lose ends and one more song for our final day of preproduction on February 26. And I leave you with the quote from Jacob and Travis. Travis: "I can't adjust the kick drum because it's not on click." Jacob: "That sounds like your problem"
-Brian
I AM THE MONSTER
Monday, January 30, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Preproduction Day 1 (Retro Diary)
Hello all! We haven't used this blog for anything worth while lately and came up with the idea to blog about our studio time a little late so our first installment will be travelling into the past from the future. That's right, the future. I will be writing this as if we are in the studio right now but in actuality we aren't, mind blowing, I know. I don't know why it matters if it's a week later but go with it. Here we goooooooooo
Well people the time is finally here where we make our first legit record and we couldn't be any more stoked. In January and February we will be spending time in preproduction going over our songs with the finest of fine tooth combs and spending 10 days at the tail end of March laying down the nitty gritty. All in all we are coming out with a 5 song EP (yet to be titled) with a planned release of June-ish. It'll consist of 4 new songs and Depths a bit tweaked and reworked. Get pumped.
Anyways here we are! Day uno of prepro with Sir Travis Noble of Magnus & Noble studios (not his places real name but his cats name is Magnus so I dubbed it that) most of the day is spent just getting us acclimated to what we are going to be doing, what we want to work on and accomplish. We started out working on Tempt Not A Desperate Man, overall its a fairly melodic song with a bunch of vocal driven parts but still has a couple rude boys in there for riffs. Did a ton of guitar work on the song, changed some fills, don't think we changed too much on vocals. For the most part it's all done now, bunch of little tweaks that overall makes the song a hell of a lot better.
That's all for day 1. We recorded our next song Legend that we plan on tweaking next week, that song has a ton of parts so we will so how that goes. Hopefully we will keep this baby steadily updated as we go through the process of making this record. Next studio date is Jan 29th (yes I know that's today but remember I'm writing this retro-actively) so we will catch ya then!
-Brian
I AM THE MONSTER
Well people the time is finally here where we make our first legit record and we couldn't be any more stoked. In January and February we will be spending time in preproduction going over our songs with the finest of fine tooth combs and spending 10 days at the tail end of March laying down the nitty gritty. All in all we are coming out with a 5 song EP (yet to be titled) with a planned release of June-ish. It'll consist of 4 new songs and Depths a bit tweaked and reworked. Get pumped.
Anyways here we are! Day uno of prepro with Sir Travis Noble of Magnus & Noble studios (not his places real name but his cats name is Magnus so I dubbed it that) most of the day is spent just getting us acclimated to what we are going to be doing, what we want to work on and accomplish. We started out working on Tempt Not A Desperate Man, overall its a fairly melodic song with a bunch of vocal driven parts but still has a couple rude boys in there for riffs. Did a ton of guitar work on the song, changed some fills, don't think we changed too much on vocals. For the most part it's all done now, bunch of little tweaks that overall makes the song a hell of a lot better.
That's all for day 1. We recorded our next song Legend that we plan on tweaking next week, that song has a ton of parts so we will so how that goes. Hopefully we will keep this baby steadily updated as we go through the process of making this record. Next studio date is Jan 29th (yes I know that's today but remember I'm writing this retro-actively) so we will catch ya then!
-Brian
I AM THE MONSTER
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