Well, we found ourselves a bassist. As you can see, his name's Chris. He's from our church. We haven't gotten the chance to have him over for a band meet yet, but hopefully we'll be able to soon.
Now all we need is a drummer.
I haven't been able to write as much lately because of school, but I have a few ideas going.
I was actually thinking of postponing any further rehearsals until after my symester ends. Then I'll have much more time to dedicate to writing my music.
I have one song that is just about done. I just have to work out little kinks in the lyrics. As soon as I finish it, I'll probably post it on the blog.
I started a new one a while back. It's going to be very guitar-heavy with a few dissonant chords on the piano. It's probably my darkest-sounding song yet. I haven't gone particularly far with it yet, but I think that it's one of my better ones.
I also figured out how many rock singers manage to sing so high. They kind of combine yelling and singing. It's pretty cool actually. I tried it out the other day when no one was home (I don't like to sound like a dying animal with my family in the house), and figured out how to do it relatively quickly. The only thing is, I don't have all that much control with the notes above my normal singing range. Oh well. Nothing a little practice won't fix.
Well, hopefully we'll be up and running soon. I can't wait to get my music out to the population!
Until next time,
Timothy
Monday, March 28, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Second rehearsal
Well, we had our second rehearsal yesterday. We didn't get all that much done, since Shannon couldn't make it. We did start working on one of Josh's songs, and we worked on Josh's guitar part for Arise.
It's not going all that smoothly yet, but it will be soon hopefully. My focus for the next rehearsal is to write some lead parts for Banana.
I also got inspiration for two new songs, one I already had piano for, and the other just came to me out of the blue. Strange how these things happen. The first one is probably the one I'm going to put vocals to first, and probably the first one of our songs I'll be posting.
I also had the bright idea that I should buy a Korg Kronos with 88 keys (the number of keys on a piano). It looked like a really good synthesizer. It couldn't cost more than $800, right.
Yeah.... Try $3,799. Unless I manage to win the lottery, I am not going to be able to afford that anytime soon.
Songwriting's hard, but hey, nothing worth doing is ever going to be easy. I just can't wait to get our music out into the world.
Until next time,
--Timothy
It's not going all that smoothly yet, but it will be soon hopefully. My focus for the next rehearsal is to write some lead parts for Banana.
I also got inspiration for two new songs, one I already had piano for, and the other just came to me out of the blue. Strange how these things happen. The first one is probably the one I'm going to put vocals to first, and probably the first one of our songs I'll be posting.
I also had the bright idea that I should buy a Korg Kronos with 88 keys (the number of keys on a piano). It looked like a really good synthesizer. It couldn't cost more than $800, right.
Yeah.... Try $3,799. Unless I manage to win the lottery, I am not going to be able to afford that anytime soon.
Songwriting's hard, but hey, nothing worth doing is ever going to be easy. I just can't wait to get our music out into the world.
Until next time,
--Timothy
Sunday, March 13, 2011
First Band Meet....
Well, JLY had its first official band meet today. Though we haven't found all of our members yet (a drummer and bassist are still needed), the rehearsal went pretty well.
We worked mainly on two songs that I wrote. For the first one, Fade (working title), I had almost half of the piano figured out, and almost all of the vocals. The lyrics are also pretty close to done. Shannon figured out a keyboard part for it, and Banana started working out a lead part. Banana and I taught Josh the Rhythm part I had written for the intro.
The second one, Arise (working title), went very well. I have almost the whole piano part worked out, and I have some of the guitar worked out already. Banana started working out a little bit of the lead, and I showed Josh some of the rhythm I had worked out.
Overall, it went very well for a first band meet. I'm hoping that we can work on some of Shannon's compositions next time.
Oh, and for all of you who know me, Banana is my sister. Now that we have two Shannons in our group, I refer to my sister as Banana.
Well, hopefully we will be rehearsing again next Sunday.
That's all for now!
We worked mainly on two songs that I wrote. For the first one, Fade (working title), I had almost half of the piano figured out, and almost all of the vocals. The lyrics are also pretty close to done. Shannon figured out a keyboard part for it, and Banana started working out a lead part. Banana and I taught Josh the Rhythm part I had written for the intro.
The second one, Arise (working title), went very well. I have almost the whole piano part worked out, and I have some of the guitar worked out already. Banana started working out a little bit of the lead, and I showed Josh some of the rhythm I had worked out.
Overall, it went very well for a first band meet. I'm hoping that we can work on some of Shannon's compositions next time.
Oh, and for all of you who know me, Banana is my sister. Now that we have two Shannons in our group, I refer to my sister as Banana.
Well, hopefully we will be rehearsing again next Sunday.
That's all for now!
The begginings of a band of four buddys....so far
hello, if you are reading this then, thank you for checking our band blog out.
today was our first band meet. we call ourselves Just Like You. that is our currant name, unless we find something cooler. our band consists of four people. all of us teenagers of course. My name is Banana or Shannon, I am the lead guitarist. then there is Josh, the rythym guitarist, (I was impressed, he can bar stuff.) my brother Tim is the keyboard\pianist. He is also doing vocals. Then there is my freind Shannon, it gets confusing having two shannon's in one band, but it's cool.
the other Shannon does vocals and keyboard\piano as well. Today we had our first band meet with all four of us. it went pretty well. the cool part was Tim and I have both written music, so we could show Josh and Shannon how to do our stuff. We enjoyed it, we practiced the intro to Tim's song and Tim and I played part of my song for 'em.
Now for the band we are looking for a drummer and a bassest. we have a possible drummer, but that's a maybe, we don't know if he will join us yet.
This blog will be posted on by all the band members. so you will get to know a little about us. We may post music that we like, and after we finish this song we're working on and get it patented we might post our music. ounce again thank you for checking this out!
P.S. Tell us what you think of our band name!
-- Shannon
today was our first band meet. we call ourselves Just Like You. that is our currant name, unless we find something cooler. our band consists of four people. all of us teenagers of course. My name is Banana or Shannon, I am the lead guitarist. then there is Josh, the rythym guitarist, (I was impressed, he can bar stuff.) my brother Tim is the keyboard\pianist. He is also doing vocals. Then there is my freind Shannon, it gets confusing having two shannon's in one band, but it's cool.
the other Shannon does vocals and keyboard\piano as well. Today we had our first band meet with all four of us. it went pretty well. the cool part was Tim and I have both written music, so we could show Josh and Shannon how to do our stuff. We enjoyed it, we practiced the intro to Tim's song and Tim and I played part of my song for 'em.
Now for the band we are looking for a drummer and a bassest. we have a possible drummer, but that's a maybe, we don't know if he will join us yet.
This blog will be posted on by all the band members. so you will get to know a little about us. We may post music that we like, and after we finish this song we're working on and get it patented we might post our music. ounce again thank you for checking this out!
P.S. Tell us what you think of our band name!
-- Shannon
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