Danielle Blog

Band update

We had another band practice on Monday night. This is the 3 person (secular) band I’m in, and not my Praise Band at church.

There were some really great moments!

Our lead singer had to get up before 4 am that morning due to a work emergency, so he wasn’t able to sing very high and we didn’t do any John Denver songs. I had been looking forward to singing and recording those with my iPhone. Instead, I recorded a few others so that we could listen to them after the fact and also to continue to learn each others’ nuances (pronunciations, breathing/phrasing, emphases, etc.). We all have iPhones, oddly enough, so it is really easy to record and share voice memos.

Also, I DID go ahead and play them some songs that I’d been considering which were American Honey (Lady Antebellum) and If I Die Young (The Band Perry). It triggered them to think of some additional ideas, like a Keith Urban song called Without You, and it is helping us find our “style.” We are starting to veer more into country than I’d originally expected. It is really appropriate for Texas, of course, but isn’t what any of us were planning. But MAN do I love the sound of some of the songs! They’ve got a lot of bounce in them, and they sound amazing with just guitars.

Yesterday, the lead singer sent me a link to a really perfect duet, You and Tequila (Kenny Chesney featuring Grace Potter). I was concerned that we were cutting our 3rd person out of the vocals by singing a duet, but he told me that the 3rd person would prefer to play guitar on most songs and just add additional vocals here and there. That actually opens up a whole new world of possibilities, because it is really easy to find 2 part harmony songs! I’m super psyched about it! I’ve already learned my part mostly for those two songs, partly because I go back to school tomorrow and won’t have as much time for the rest of the week. Partly, because it is the sort of thing I do when I’m getting ready in the morning, eating breakfast, or hanging out in the evening, these days.