Nothing like being woken up by a small child who runs into the room and says quiet loudly "I came to see if you guys were awake!"
Anyway... This is an iPhone update as I'm in transit to San Antonio to go to the original Schlitterbahn for the first time in... I'm not sure how many years but the last visit was well before I could drive. I think it was on a church trip with my friends back in middle school.
Once Jesse showed up at the chateau the first order of business was to review what we had come up with yesterday. Scrapped the rough harmonies from yesterday and rerecorded them. Jesse came up with a few specific harmonies for the verses and we arranged who would be singing each part to make sure we could do it logistically with the vocals we were allotted. As Jesse pointed out, vocal tracks are a premium if we aren't going to be layering one person over themselves
The next order of business was ... Supposed to be WH Bonnie or Dead Mans Curve. However my computer doesn't have the final lead vocals for those so we moved onto Mowin the Shoulder. Jesse had no ideas for harmonies on that song other than that he wanted some ooh's on the bridge and some harmonies on the chorus. I sang a couple between lines that Jesse liked and the chorus came together pretty quick with a low harmony, two high harmonies that double each other and an even higher staggered harmony that we are going to have to get a girl to sing. (taking volunteers).
Then came the oohs. We'll just say guitars are wonderful and oohs are surprisingly difficult. Three part ooh harmonies with varied melody lines came together faster than would have happened without a guitar.
After arranging the Mowing the Shoulder parts into "people" we loaded up Riding in a Boxcar. Trip had laid down some beach boys harmonies on that track the other day that at the time we weren't sure would work. After listening to the oohs on mowing it was kind of a no brained to use the idea and just have our additional singers to sing the additional parts instead of having trip do 5 tracks.
Kory was originally aged to do some leads on this song so we culled my leads and Jesse sang the parts I wanted Kory to sing and then we worked on harmonies. We came up with a couple really cool ideas for the final lines of the verses that are both really musical and slightly dissonant. Think if Alice in chains wrote happy music.
Still have a few more songs to arrange but with all the parts written, the actual recording should be a lot easier next time we get together. Now it's just a matter of learning.
As I mentioned earlier I am blogging this from my phone while in transit and I get super car sick... And now that we've hit traffic my girlfriend is swerving the car like a crazy person so I'm ending this update before I toss my cookies!
Stay tuned and stay wet!
Jesse and I reviewed our ideas about harmonies on Two Friends of Mine this morning. Changed a few harmonies and then worked on Mowing the Shoulder.
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