Change of musicians Over the course of this project I've had to change the people in which i collaborated with. At the beginning the plan was to work with two other musicians. Jaymie Porter (Bass) and Rhys Battle (Drums) having my self playing the guitar. However there were two main issues that had rose the prevented me from doing so. The first was the lack of motivation these musicians had to practice which led to them not being able to play to the standard I wished them too. Although the drummer did have knowledge on how to drum I found that he was just not willing to dedicate him self the way I would of wanted him too. This came apparent to me during rehearsal sessions where he had repeatedly failed to of learned his parts. The situation with the bassist was much worse as he just did not know how to play bass. Although that is what he considered to be his main instrument it was apparent that he was not committed nor efficient in his instrument of choice. Not only was it a prob...
Problems with Recording Over the recording period of the EP we faced two major fuck ups. The first being that when recording takes for the first time the Macbook we were using died and we lost a lot of takes we were initially thought were recorded. For the second time of recording we assured that the Macbook was plugged into a charger before recording. However the second time of recording it turned out that even after assurance from one of my tutors who was playing bass on the EP (Ali Smyth) that he had failed to press the record button and all takes we had played were lost. This was unfortunate as once we had found out that this was the case it was to late to continue recording. However after these first two failed recording sessions the rest ran smoothly.