This morning we came in early to record a song to go along with our promotional video that is being filmed by a media student who was selected to with us.
As we haven’t put together an original yet because we are still trying to finish our set which should be done by this week, so we have chosen to cover ‘I Want You Back’ as it is where we all feel comfortable whilst playing without a singer.
We set our selves up within 3 separate rooms, I was in the studio with Dan playing Bass, our Guitarist was in the room to the left of us and then our Drummer was in the room in front of us. This way made it easier for us to be recorded on separate tracks and it ensured nothing would leak onto another track if we were all in the same room also, we took a handful of takes all at different tempos to try find out what best fit.
It started at the original tempo which was 98bpm then brought it up to around about 100-105bpm which was a comfortable speed for us all to play at, it took me a handful of takes to figure out how to play the bass-line quicker than usual without cutting notes which I managed in the end.
When we were finished I listened back to our take whilst the other two packed up, it was a great take for the time we were given, all that is left is for our vocalist to lay her track down on it then we only have the video left to do when our person gets in contact.
After this our first lesson was theory with Chris, today we went over how to get to the venue for our Christmas concert and the requirements we need to play there which was useful information. We then had a rehearsal session we went through ‘Just a Girl’ by No Doubt and we talked about what else we could do to improve and add to our set, considering are vocalist went home ill early on what didn’t know what to do and left it at that for the session knowing we got the structure nailed without her.
During D.I.S. I helped out with rehearsal diaries considering I have done all mine even though every time I get them checked something seems to be wrong which is excellent, after that we had a rehearsal session but about twenty minutes in we had only went through our song once so I decided to get Chris to help us choose some new songs.
We’ve got rid of all our other ideas and kept ‘Just a Girl’ and ‘I Want You Back’ for now Chris has mentioned we listen to and do ‘Ironic’ by Alanis Morissette for tomorrow when our singer is in and on that note we ended the day.
Ellie Thornton Music 