Thursday, July 30, 2009

Band Practice

So last night I met several new cousins (I've been meeting first cousins once removed all the time lately,) Liz's kids, over at Renn and Keira's place. It was fun, but unfortunately, we had to leave early due to band practice.
I know what you're thinking, "Why Becky," you're saying, "that is a fake excuse since we all know that you are not musically talented."
Well, guess what. They let me be in the band anyway.
So these are the band members:
Maude, who writes (or selects song for us to cover) and is the lead singer, and plays the guitar.
Travis, who plays the guitar, mostly, and tells everyone else what and how to play, because he has crazy musical skillz.
Sophie, (who is sisters with Maude) is also crazy talented, and plays the violin.
Lana, who may or may not actually be in the band, but I think she is, because we haven't given her the option of NOT being in the band. But Lana and I get to sing back up, and find other instruments to play.
and Me, who sings backup a little, and sometimes plays the harmonium, and sometimes plays the bells, and sometimes tries to keep rhythm on the drum.
I get to be in the band because I brought together my boyfriend, and my best friends, and am the link that makes it cool to practice together. (I think.)

So, after two hours of practice/goofing off, and bellowing at Gunther (that beast of a dog) we had the basic outline of what we want two songs to sound like.
So we recorded them. We spent about 40 minutes on each. The first song only Sophie and I had heard before last night (besides Maude, who wrote it) the second song, none of us had heard, and is a cover of an R&B song.
So, I think we did okay. We certainly felt proud of it, and decided to have Sophie's parents record us. Voila!


2 comments:

Polly said...

I got a fever! And the only prescription is more cowbell.

Noelley Belly said...

Awesome! I LOVE Maude's voice! Please tell her that, thanks Becky!