This Friday, we made huge progress. Nick and I figured out our own little riff that will go in between each "verse." I put the that in quotation marks because I don't know if it really is a verse. We are doing more of an instrumental type of song rather than a lyrical based one so our song is structured very different. After we figured out everything that's actually going into the song, we started to put it all together.

Daniel Hong

Google Day 10/23

We now have a confirmed direction and chord progression we will be working off of, and it is in the funk/jazz genre.  We will be incorporating numerous different jazz-related elements in our song to push the boundaries of what we've traditionally been able to do in terms of writing music.  Expect to see key changes, complex jazz rhythms, guitar and saxophone leads, slap bass solos, and other more musically advanced ideas in our song. We will begin to work with Mike who will be drumming for us, and helping us record, in the coming weeks.  It's been really fun to see where this project is headed and I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out. Expect great things.

Google Day 10/23 Danny Hong


Sorry for the late post. I'm not sure what happened two days ago: Nick, JG and I were jamming in our practice room and I put my blog post in from there. Apparently, as Nick pointed out later, the ethernet connection was down or something and it never came through.

Anyways, we experimented with some jazz and and a little funk. Travis was our consult at that time and was our vocal during our jam session. If we can't find a vocalist in a few weeks, I think we will just have him sing for us. I think we were overall successful in getting a full song together. In a few weeks time, we may have to start recording and editing. That's where Mike comes in.

Danny Hong

Google day 10/23 Jonathan Griffiths

Today we jammed more in class, we have a pretty solid base for the song. I have a rhythm part, Danny has his bassline and nick has his lead part, but we need to work out specifics and add to the song.

We hope to be done with the song in a few weeks so we can talk to our friend and drummer Mike about recording

My apologies for the late post... Jonathan Griffiths

I was out of town all weekend looking at colleges, and so I missed the last Google day and was unable to make a post until now.

Even though I missed the Google day, I hear it was productive, and I have been spending time on my guitar coming up with different things that we might use.


That's all

Jonathan Griffiths

Google Dya 10/5 Nick Reuter

The Google day on Friday the 5th of October was primarily used for experimenting with potential directions we could go in terms of genre and creating some riffs to go along with it.  I found a few good jazz/funk based riffs we could use.  It is apparent, however, that this year our final product will be more musically complex and compelling than last year.

Yesterday, due to some instrumental difficulties, Nick and I had to improvise a little bit to make everything work out well. Jonathon wasn't able to make it as we was driving up to Vancouver with his aunt. And so, just Nick and I did a mostly jazz improvisational music during our google day. I thin kwe can now say that we have expanded our borders since last year, which was our goal. I hope to continue down this path, but so far, who knows?