Transcript of "the group's musical tools" -- Members of the group talk about the tools they used in order to participate in the project—both skills they brought with them and skills they learned in the making.


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so it's an easy answer for that one is
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everything was entirely new I would come
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in and I would I would be sitting on
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this drum here tapping along that was
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one thing so if you sitting on this and
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then another thing i did was play one of
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these different time so the whole thing
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was new because if you play the drum
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you're kind of playing all at one time
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in that for this one I would sometimes
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play part of the drumbeat to one track
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and have these headphones on the loan
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you experience it sin here drumming with
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headphones on listening to the song and
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so you're going along and then suddenly
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there's a voice you like blue so you try
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again to keep the beat goin all the way
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through instruments and voices together
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so you do a track and then then you get
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the shaker and you listen to the drum
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beat you just did and then you this
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parts a little thing was really new
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you're trying to sing come up with a
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harmeet part on the spot yeah that's
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that's not a easy thing to do you know
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when you're singing you feel like you're
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gonna mess up and the people who came in
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saying on this song you know they were
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willing to try it several times and mess
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up a lot until they found something that
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worked and you know I'm not speaking I
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played electric guitar on the track and
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you know i SAT there and messed up
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several times trying to get the solo
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just the way I had it in my head and you
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know it takes a degree of being willing
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to mess up in order to come at the end
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come up with a greater greater whole
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participation for me and this project
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was kind of surreal and also just
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incredibly fun I I never thought I would
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be able to feel so comfortable doing
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some of the things that I was trying to
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do because i didn't really know how to
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do most of the things that i did until
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maybe right before I kind of tried
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do them I was playing the bass on the
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project and my bass playing is maybe all
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within the last year and so I in
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addition to clearly still trying to
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learn how to play the instrument I was
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also asked by Kevin to basically just
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have free rein and makeup base parts so
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that this was different than projects
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I've done before so I you know with
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recording I've got a little bit of
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background but but you know not not a
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whole lot with Pro Tools so this was a
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new program that I was trying to learn
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as we were doing this project before I
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recorded on a eight a little eight-track
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that did you know it it could record
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seven eight u dot 28 tracks but it
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didn't have a whole lot of versatility
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in terms of you know doing volume
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without moving the feeders as you try to
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do the battles trach so it this there's
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a lot more flexibility in what we're
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doing here were a lot of people playing
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and singing on this record that are not
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experts and me and several people who
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had never recorded anything before so to
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to be part of that from from a novice at
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least standpoint and to have the
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recording engineer treat you as if first
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of all you knew what you were doing and
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then also kind of massage you gently in
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the direction of doing it right because
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he did know how to do it right from his
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experience was was priceless there were
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times when I actually felt like an
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expert even though of course in my brain
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I knew who I was not an expert I did a
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lot of recording on my home but to have
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people come in
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actually know how to do these things is
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just truly amazing to take here it's uh
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it's uh two wonderful experience
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you