songwriting

We've been doing live streams of our songwriting sessions from our studio on our Twitch channel. We just turn on the camera and try out ideas and see where they take us.

Here is a clip from one of those sessions we posted to our YouTube Channel.

Trying to write a theatrical bridge part (Live Stream Clip)

It needs something?

We have a theme song that we've been working on for a film. After arranging the song it still needed something. Something in between the verse and chorus that was way different than what was going on in the song.

Cliff, Rob, and I were in the studio doing a live stream and I thought we could try and test out some ideas.

Adding some live drums to the song Slippery Friction

We have been working on a song idea we came up with during a live-stream songwriting session tentatively called "Slippery Friction

 We've been doing live streams of our songwriting sessions from our studio on our Twitch channel. We just turn on the camera and try out ideas and see where they take us.

Here is a clip from one of those sessions we posted to our YouTube Channel.

Down time: guitars, drums, and bass multi-track (Live Stream Clip)

This is a live video edited into a song from multiple parts

We recorded and edited this songwriting session from a live video stream that was originally about 30 minutes long.

We also recorded the instrument tracks in our Ardour recording software as we streamed the video. 

Here is a clip from one of our live songwriting sessions on our Twitch channel. We just turn on the camera and try out ideas and see where they take us.

Here is a clip from one of those sessions we posted to our YouTube Channel.

Play this one in b (Live Stream Clip)

This song idea is based on an old 30-second audio file we found

Here is a clip from one of our live songwriting sessions on our Twitch channel. We just turn on the camera and try out ideas and see where they take us.

Here is a clip from one of those sessions we posted to our YouTube Channel.

Play it like The Strokes or Journey (Live Stream Clip)

Don't play it like you would instinctively want to play it

I wrote a piano line that I liked, but I didn't want it to just be a slow mellow thing.

I thought it could be something more.

So I asked that band to play something with this piano part and ignore any urge to play it as a slow song.

Here is a clip from one of our live songwriting sessions on our Twitch channel. We just turn on the camera and try out ideas and see where they take us.

Here is a clip from one of those sessions we posted to our YouTube Channel.

Play an organ chug (Live Stream Clip)

The band is in the studio during a live-stream songwriting session. I started out with an organ chug idea for lack of a better thing to call it.

It was just a four beat organ chord chug idea and I asked the band to play along to see what they come up with.

I think I liked the guitar strum Eric came up with the most.

-Tom

Here is a clip from one of our live songwriting sessions on our Twitch channel. We just turn on the camera and try out ideas and see where they take us.

Here is a clip from one of those sessions we posted to our YouTube Channel.

Play to a marimba, GO! (Live Stream Clip)

I had a simple little marimba part that I wanted to use for a song.

I showed it to the band during this songwriting session to see what they would come up with on the spot.

- Tom