ZeCoop: This was the second epic song that I wrote last weekend, after after picking up my Jazzmaster with the intent of writing some big songs. It was a very satisfying weekend, for sure. Unlike the first, which was a full-on fuzz-fest, this was all clean guitars (except for the late addition of the solo) and used lots of very odd partial chords. Adding drums was super fun and then once I added my string synth, the vibe was established. Remembering that SWG had done a shoegazey whisper vocal last year, I asked if he wanted to try it out. The results were spectacular, in my opinion and totally matched the vibe I was going for. I doubled all of his vocals so that there were six voices for each part. Mixing this just about blew up my computer - it was NOT happy - but I am. Thanks for going on this adventure with me Steve!

SWG: (is working EDIT - but he checks his FAWM browser ALL DAY). So, John sent me this track and he remembered a shoegaze tune I attempted last year during FAWM. That got me excited and so I pulled up My Bloody Valentine's Loveless as a reference album for ideas on how to approach it. Basically, their recording vocal strat was like this: whisper level vocals. then do a million tracks So, we did sort of that with less than a million (but more than 3) and got to work. I used AI as a research assistant only. I asked AI to tell me lyrical themes and common recurring words in hit shoegaze songs from the 90s. It was extremely helpful and felt like I was just using a personalized version of a Google search. But AI had no hand in making, writing, lyrics, chords, etc. That was 100% us.

I'm very happy with how this came out.

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ZeCoop played: Squire Jazzmaster Harley Benton Telecaster (both into a 1960's Traynor YGM-3) Tacoma acoustic 12 string Fender Jazz bass Roland RS-202 String Synth Ludwig Hollywood drums (lots of vocal doubles)