Studio Trip 4

I picked up Luke at his place at 3:45 and we headed  out to The Bongo Tree. With a fresh pot of coffee just made, we drank from mugs while conversing outside in what was one of the most beautiful days of the year so far. 

Luke tracked an additional guitar part on the first track before turning his attention to the guitar parts for the last track of the EP. The end of the guitar work is in sight, and that is crazy to think. All that is left are parts for the two transition tracks, which are relatively minimal. That was all we really did, as we had to leave by ten to get home since we both worked early this morning. We are planning to go out Wednesday and maybe Saturday in preparation for the tracking of the piano on Sunday. Anticipation is building to an all time high. This is such a big step for us. 

For those few people that support us, it means more than we could ever say or type. For the rest of you, thank you for your lack of support. It drives us and motivates us in ways we cannot explain. 

Patience

Eventually I will import all the posts from our tumblr. I have not been able to access tumblr for whatever reason so I decided to re vamp this old blog and start updated here! If you are reading this, thanks for checking it out. We are really excited about things that are going on in the Canoes camp. We have been in the studio 3 days, and head back this coming Monday for an evening session. On Sunday February 5th, we are heading out to The Recording Workshop to track all the piano for the record. I must admit, I am really excited about this.
Through the recording so far, the only thing I have done (besides a few scratch tracks) is produce. While I love doing that, the thought of tracking is making me giddy. I have been practicing these parts like crazy, and they are really coming together.
We decided to call the EP "No More Waiting Around". This was the name we had for the full length, and even even though this is technically only seven of those songs, we decided it was very appropriate. The second EP will be the rest of the material from the aforementioned defunct full length. We haven't come up with a name for it yet.
Patience is the key. I hate that. I want this to be done now. I want everyone to hear it. I want to play shows.
But right now, this is where we are, and I am learning to be content with that.

In Between

Things have been kinda slow of late. I think this is more perception than actuality. Over the past couple weeks, Luke and I have been working on these songs on our own. A lot of times we work better this way. Sometimes when someone is sitting right there, it is more difficult to come up with parts for songs. Luke sent me some guitar parts for the last song on the EP and it is sounding really great. I am getting close to having solid parts on the piano for these songs. Sunday I was able to sit down at my parents piano (my favorite piano ever) and bang out the ideas I have been working on. February 5th gets closer and closer and anticipation is through the roof. Tonight Luke and I are getting together and I think I am going to try and play through what I've got so far…Also we both recently watched the documentary Dear Jack and would highly recommend to anyone and everyone.

Piano

February 5th we will heading up to The Recording Workshop in Chillicothe, Ohio to track all the Piano for the EP. This is really exciting as we will be recording on a $35,00 semi grand piano, in a $500,000 studio, with Brian Muth. All of these things combined are going to make this album sing. I am so excited.

Studio Days Two and Three

The captain at the helm, Joe Dunlap.

Luke laying down the riffs.

Joseph Dunlap. Owner of The Bongo Tree, engineer. 

Good pedals + Clark's desert boots = superb tone

Look who came to hang. Brett Gregory ladies and gentlemen.

Studio Update

Days two and three in the studio are done! We headed back the 28 and 29 of December to continue work on our 7 track EP. On Wednesday we focused on drums. Adam Simmons came back out and continued to be amazing. By the end of the day we had tracked all the drum parts for the EP plus a b-side we are working on.

Thursday we decided to attack guitar. I think after all was said and done we finished guitar on two songs plus some acoustic layers on a few of the others. Thursday was also Kile’s birthday and a couple of our friends came out to the studio for the day and we had a great time.

Joe continues to be amazing through the recording process and we can’t wait to get back into the studio for more work! Next we will be working on more guitar as well as getting ready to track piano up at The Recording Workshop in Chillicothe, Ohio. We are still looking for a spring release and just saying that make us giddy.