Writing Session

Today has been one of the few writing sessions I’ve been able to sit in on. It’s a really interesting experience to sit down and hash out ideas with a song that isn’t fully done. I obviously spend time working on my own music, so taking someone else’s preferences and style into consideration is quite the challenge!

We started the day of revising an old song that needed some parts re-tracked. The main thing was getting acoustic guitar put down on the track, which took some time to get the arrangement right. Once that first song was wrapped up, we moved onto a brand new song. Calling it a song, however, would be a bit of a stretch. There was mainly riffs and ideas, but the whole structure of the song needed to be fleshed out. We spent the session working through parts, either adding drums that complimented the part or rearranging the part to make more sense in context with the rest of the song. At the end of the day, we had two songs in the bag to make notes on for another session down the line.