To Walk

original audio: http://www.archive.org/details/LorenzoPractice-110610-To-VocalIdea - Lorenzo Practice - 110610 - To - Vocal idea

110622 Practice Notes

Involved

Cliff Hammer

Tom Ray

After an email request from Tom to Cliff asking for a bass part.

Audio

*note* There is a 4 second silence before it plays cuz the copy Tom sent to Cilff had a click track to lead into it.

original audio: http://www.archive.org/details/110622LorenzoPractice

110916 Practice Notes

Involved

Tom Ray

Mark Whitcomb

Tom and Mark listening back to the song thought that the song could use a different bass line that would be more of a melody, like in a Gorillaz song.

First they vocalized the idea while listening back and mark picked up an acoustic guitar to mimic the ideas.

Plugged in the bass and first tried a fuzz sound but decided to go for more of a clean sound instead.

Tom said that the part should be more of a minimalistic idea from what was being played.

Then after making it more basic switching from high notes to low notes for accent.

Audio

110921 Practice Notes

Involved

Tom Ray

Rob Gugel

Tried out some ideas with the song using acoustic guitar.

Rob had riff that he had written on keyboard messing around with it at home.

Tom had him break it down a bit from being a riff to more like rhythmic accents on the acoustic guitar.

Audio

original audio: http://www.archive.org/details/110921LorenzoPractice

110928 Practice Notes

Involved

Tom Ray

Rob Gugel

Decided to redo the guitar on the electric through the effects rack.

Rob was adding a ping pong effect with the timing at 11:10 and the depth at at about 150, reverb set at ambience with pre-delay at 11:40 the decay at 125 and the color at 10:59.

the input we used was is at 10:45 the mix is at 105 and the effect balance at "12 o'clock"

with the preamp drive at 450 and the gain at 1

The part he was playing using this we used to replace what was done on the chorus part.

Then we went clean with the guitar it was identical Rob just changed the effect balance 100% reverb.

While setting up for that Rob played a guitar riff and we tried it out on the main verse. It was a bit of a streatch but Tom thinks that there is something there with the right rythmn so a scratch was recorded for listening later.

Using that same tone overdubbed hits on the 1 beat with the chorus guitar so the sound blended.

And after that went back using the same clean guitar sound again and re-did the original verse rythm.

Audio

111102 Practice Notes

Involved

Tom Ray

Mark Whitcomb

Overdubbed the keyboards to the track since they weren't showing up strong in the original recording

Marks chords:

First part - C minor, B flat maj,

Second part - G minor, F maj

Instead of the guitar idea that we laid out before that was off-key but kept mainly for rhythm, Mark based on that just riffed an idea for part of a loop using the Traymore amp and we liked the 3rd one so we used that.

We added a ton of echo to the original guitar on the "catch more" part. Then Mark doubled the echo guitar using the amps tremolo. After listening back the single note guitar rhythmic that was there we re-recorded that because it was out of tune.

Had Rob overdub his bass drum line which brought out the rhythm more.

Then with a cloth covering the snare doubled the chorus snare to make it stand out more.

Then added a guitar part to kick some of the accents on the chorus.

Mark played an accent guitar part that he originally wanted to do with drums but Tom said to do it with guitar and we built of that idea from there for the chorus.

Tom liked the first idea and Mark recorded a second one to try and clean it up and ended up using both at the same time.

Audio

original audio: http://www.archive.org/details/111102-LorenzoPractice-ToWalk

111221 Practice Notes

Involved

Tom Ray

Mark Whitcomb

Mark and Tom worked on writing lyrics and singing a melody for the second and third verse to replace the repeated one.

After writing the lyrics and singing a scratch track, did a little rearanging on the verse parts. created a break down before one and took out everything but the bass and drums for the ending.

Photos

Audio

original audio: http://www.archive.org/details/111102-LorenzoPractice-ToWalk

120201 Practice Notes

Involved

Tom Ray

Mark Whitcomb

Rob Gugel

Cliff Hammer

Worked on a live arrangement with Tom on keys

Lyrics

To, to, to walk faster

You don't, you don't need more, more feet

To, to, to slow down

To, to, to slow down

Catch more, catch more, catch more

Catch more, catch more, catch more air

You, you, you lost faster

At least it was yours, yours to see

To, to, to know now

To, to, to slow down

Catch more, catch more, catch more

Catch more, catch more, catch more air

These things, these things

These things, these things

You can't see

You can't see

Think of it this way, this way

This is why you asked in the first place, first place

To, to, to slow down

To, to, to know now

Catch more, catch more, catch more

Catch more, catch more, catch more air

These things, these things

These things, these things

You can't see

You can't see

Audio

Marks notes for the Too Walk chords (this version played in a reggae style).

121123 Practice Notes

Involved

Tom Ray

Rob Gugel

Since we were going the route of changing up the song Rob and Tom just tried to enhance the original starting from scratch

Recorded some percussion with a brush swishing back and forth on a floor tom.

Then wrote a drumline based off of that.

Set it up in Renoise at 91dpi tempo.

Plucked the guitar part a bit more rhythmically.

Audio

Original audio: http://goo.gl/aGNQA

torrent: http://goo.gl/n4wkT

121128 Practice Notes

Involved

Tom Ray

Cliff Hammer

Rob Gugel

Eric Brusewitz

Mark Whitcomb

Working on the new guitar line that was written from the last practice.

Audio