Raven_the_Bird
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Many of your songs have had pretty simple arrangements, mostly just guitar and drums. Have there been any ideas on expanding arrangements, maybe adding in some orchestral feel to the tracks?
T: With the new record we wanted to do that. Rachel and I both dabble in the piano so songs like “And Run”, when we’re in the studio we don’t limit ourselves at all. When we want drums in the song, we’ll map out the drums and then have our drummer come in and do it, or if it’s a piano part we will sit there and learn it.
R: I was going to say on strings it’s weird, because we don’t play strings but we can tell you we need pizzicato or something like that. We can kind of work our way through it and make it happen.
T: So for this record we didn’t want to limit ourselves to what we could and could not do just because we’re strictly singer-songwriter acoustic guitar demo kind of guys.
R: “Prove Me Wrong” has all sorts of stuff on it. “Fall” has strings galore.
T: Definitely some of the songs start out as the basics like acoustic guitar, then Rachel’s like “I got this melody” and then we’re like “this is too much of an emotional song, let’s add drums or stuff to make it heavier and show more emotion throughout the song” so that’s what we kind of did.
T: With the new record we wanted to do that. Rachel and I both dabble in the piano so songs like “And Run”, when we’re in the studio we don’t limit ourselves at all. When we want drums in the song, we’ll map out the drums and then have our drummer come in and do it, or if it’s a piano part we will sit there and learn it.
R: I was going to say on strings it’s weird, because we don’t play strings but we can tell you we need pizzicato or something like that. We can kind of work our way through it and make it happen.
T: So for this record we didn’t want to limit ourselves to what we could and could not do just because we’re strictly singer-songwriter acoustic guitar demo kind of guys.
R: “Prove Me Wrong” has all sorts of stuff on it. “Fall” has strings galore.
T: Definitely some of the songs start out as the basics like acoustic guitar, then Rachel’s like “I got this melody” and then we’re like “this is too much of an emotional song, let’s add drums or stuff to make it heavier and show more emotion throughout the song” so that’s what we kind of did.
