Filed under: The Still Sound | Tags: Cd Release Show, Music, My Music, New Album, Recording, The Still Sound
Lately I have been working on writing music for my full band “acoustic/folk” project along the lines of such artists as City and Colour, William Fitzsimmons, etc. I have been in a metal band my whole life and when the touring and such came to an end I was in search of playing something a bit different and honestly this is just what came out and felt right. All the music has passion behind it. I try not to write about things that I can’t personally connect with because I feel like no one else will connect if I don’t even truly know what I am talking about.
I write all of the music mostly just with an acoustic guitar laying vocal melodies over it, then I try to program a basic idea of drums and bass that I have in my head and let the people that play those instruments in the band elaborate on them with their skill. I have done a lot of pre production demo work along with a few purely acoustic demos just to host on Myspace for people to preview what I am doing, also to send to the rest of my band in order to “get the feel” for everything to prepare for recording. Putting my “demos” up also helps me gain some sort of hype and it really helps when I’m trying to book shows.
Right now I am just finishing up demoing all of the songs out so that I can do some sort of pre production to the songs. Some things I plan on doing is evaluating the structure of each song making sure its holding the listeners attention as a whole. Then I plan on re evaluating all of the melodies making sure that every note flows together well and portrays the overall feel I want in the song. The final part for me is searching through the songs and finding all the little “extra tid bits” I would like to add, such as volume swells, a piano at parts, and over dubbing, or anything really of that nature. In the next few weeks I will start recording our first demo which will contain 7 original songs. Drums will start in about 2 weeks then bass, guitar, and finally vocals. I am hoping to be done recording and mixing within a month for a tentative C.D. release show on March 27th.
