- Recording and Instrumentation:
- I started this recording with the bassline which is hard to hear in the first part. This turned out to be a bad idea because I constantly sped up throughout the first section and then had to go back and fix it when the recording was practically done. For the next two sections I started with the rhythm guitar part which I turned out to be much more solid with in terms of tempo. Then after adding the solo guitar, bassline, and all of the vocals, I added the percussion. I was originally going to have it be only a tambourine, but at the end I decided the recording would be much more powerful with the keyboard drums which I think it is. The last section has six vocal tracks singing in three different octaves. And if you listen really carefully there is an accordion there at the end too.
- Vocals
- Guitar
- Keyboard
- Tambourine
- Accordion
- Lyrics:
- Gillian Jackson (repeat)
- Song History:
- The first thing I came up with for this song was the solo guitar part that you can hear well in the second section. So I was kicking around the chord progression and the vocal part in the final section for some time before I decided to record. The vocal parts in the first two sections as well as the solo guitar part in the final section were writen basically right before I started to record. The structure of the song as well was concieved of right before recording, and I am rather happy with it. For some reason I think the reapeat of the chord progression three times for each section works well. This is name song number six to be recorded.
- Recorded on: 23 July 2004
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