Our wonderful music coach Terry joined us today! We wanted to try a "live" approach to this beautiful Renaissance piece by recording it all at once with both vocals and instruments. The idea is to capture the energy and vivid realness that is in the music at a live performance. "Song of the Ship" is difficult to sing and so to get a take with all three verses sounding our best- not to mention the instrumental break that goes through the song twice and a short tag ending - is quite a challenge. After about six takes we listened to them all, narrowing down to the best recordings one by one.
This is a picture of our recording engineer's computer screen. You can see where he pasted in the third verse of the fourth take to the first, second, and instrumental verses of the fifth take, with the harp intro from the third take. Does this make any sense??? I'm not quite sure, but Michael (our recording engineer) knew what it meant and that's what counts. Great job, Michael!
"Song of the Ship" was hard to record and as everyone knows, lots of hard work, concentration, and energy expenditure really gives one an appetite. We brought some very tasty (if I may say so myself) turkey wraps for lunch. Unfortunately, Janna was the last one to record any vocals, and so while waiting to do her harmony part she had to watch the rest of us eat without touching the food herself! (We do not like to eat just before singing.) "It really was cruel," Janna says. Above, Janna, having recorded her part, triumphantly takes a turkey wrap.
I feel like I'm really falling into recording mode now. I'm viewing the rest of the world from that perspective. It might appear glassy-eyed or something to most, but that doesn't matter to me. Besides a recording session and rehearsal for tomorrow I made it through biology class, piano class, and a pleasant visit with Grandmother today, and although I feel spent, I'm happy.
~Your dedicated Recording Session Updater, the Fourth Rose
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