writing our first song started by Ashton having a guitar part he liked and I played the drums for it then we just stuck to it for a while until we doubled the length of the first section. The main issue was timing on transitions especially for the ending. We’re still working on the vocals for this song but what we have so far sounds good.
For the second song we wanted to write more punk 2 step type parts we struggled to get an idea for it originally but we did the first part of the song then we had an idea for the rest, so after we talked about how many bars in each section we learnt the song quite fast.
In both these recordings my hands were destroyed so its not as good as it could be.
These recordings are really badly recorded the songs still needs a few changes we’ve made some already and they sound better we need to stop recording at the end of sessions because at the end were normally all dead and then it sounds worse or they might be a slight slip up sometimes.
the 3rd and 4th song needs the most work now so were gonna do that this session as well as recording videos for promotion and try record it the best we can.
We made more changes to the song mainly the 3rd song and I think the changes we made makes it a lot better. This was after we was playing for a while we decided to just record the set its not perfect but its good I think I messed up a little bit in parts mainly with remembering the next part since we just changed it but you can’t tell too much. were very close to being done now just gonna write and try perfect the 4th song ready for the gig. Since the gig is on the 13th ill be practicing the songs at home more too.
We had a small practice at lunch time where our friend Leo came in to do vocals with Caleb which sounded pretty good we also had Kieran on bass for that.
We have finished writing the 4th song which is also the last we decided to do a different genre midwest emo maybe if the parents don’t like the hardcore they might like the last one. It’s a self titled album “My Animal” the rest of the songs are for Almost over which are another self titled ALMOST OVER. ultimatum shawarmageddon.
in terms of which song i struggle with the most is the 4th song but we’ve been practicing it and it’s starting to get a lot tighter one issue i struggle on it with is trying to count 1e+a 2e+a 3e+a 4e+a 4 times then crash sometimes i mess up and crash too early or miss it but after practicing it more i can feel where it is a bit better. i know you can count like 1 2 3 4 2 2 3 4 3 2 3 4 4 2 3 4 but that weird to count like that for me so i need to improve my counting and remember what bar i’m on.
This was a practice we did with leo because he’s doing a mic grab. it sounded pretty good it was at the end of the day so i was tired and the double kick was a sloppy at points , and the last song i messed up the verse hihats at some points.
We had to do a session at pirate studios so our friend isaac could learn the bass parts luckily he’s really good and could just learn it in 2 goes and come up with his own bass lines that isn’t the same as the guitar but sounds really nice.