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Created
Mon, 14/02/2022 - 18:39

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

We took a clip from one of those sessions that we liked recently and posted it on our YouTube channel.

We gave this song idea a random name called "Slippery Friction" and decided to build on it.

Here is the progress so far...

1. Slippery Friction Clav Sound (Live Stream Clip)

It was Tom playing a part on the keys using the clav sound, Cliff played bass and Rob just started doing a beat.

Created
Tue, 09/08/2022 - 15:25

Filming a band practice and editing the video into a song

I wanted to show the process of how we filmed the band working on an idea for a song during a two-hour practice session and chopped up that video footage into a working song.

Run a click track the whole time

The key thing about this idea is that we had a click track running the entire night. 

We had headphones placed around the studio and the click track was constantly running, whether we were talking or actually playing it was always running.

That way no matter what ideas we played throughout the video recording, whatever parts that we came up with they would still work with each other in the video editor when I placed them side by side.

Created
Thu, 25/08/2022 - 06:30

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.

Rumble Fish Style (Live Stream Clip)

One of the things I wanted to try was something that sounded like the soundtrack for the 1983 movie Rumble Fish.

Created
Thu, 01/09/2022 - 06:30

We took another clip from one of our live Twitch Channel songwriting sessions we did and posted it on our YouTube channel.

We just turn on the camera and try out new ideas and see what we come up with.

Hey Ocarina (Live Stream Clip)

Sometimes to come up with an idea I just look for a sound on my keyboard by just spinning the dial it has to scroll through sounds and use what it lands on.

What if we tried an Ocarina sound?

This time it landed on the Ocarina sound. 

I only know the Ocarina from the Legend of Zelda game Ocarina of Time