Which ryan ross phase are you

Posted by: Mark. One of our resident composers Ryan is hard at work on a new album. This time it is Ryan Ross. Ryan is a part of the Los Angeles rock band The Lonely Wild for whom he mans the bass, key and trumpet duties.

The Lonely Wild recently spent a week in Sacramento tracking their upcoming release. For more on The Lonely Wild visit thelonelywild. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website.

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At the end, the way that we prefer songwriting and the way that we think that the better songs turned out is when Ryan would write lyrics first because that would kind of set a mode, set a tone for how we wanted the music to sound. Or Ryan listens to movie scores or theatrical stuff. A lot of the second half was written in the studio and recorded in like the last five days.

So that was really tough. We were stressing out pretty bad. I think it worked out really well to have four people who had a similar creative vision, yet a wide range of musical interests that could blend together to create a unique sound.

I showed them stuff I listened to: Hawaiian music, Sublime, jazz, Spanish fever music. We were helping push each other for a very long time. Our drummer, Spencer, started playing me some of their stuff. We were just listening to a bunch of different things at the time. Bands like Third Eye Blind, Queen, and I was listening to a lot of movie scores towards the end of the writing. Ryan : We like a lot of bands, none of which have much in common other than they are unique unto themselves and they write great songs.

Ryan mentioned many times how Adam Duritz from the Counting Crows inspired him, so it was cool to see this happen. I mean, we used trumpet and accordion and xylophone on our record and I mean, none of us have a ton of experience with any of those instruments so it was kind of figuring out as we went, you know, which was exciting and fun. The Times Union said in early that P!

The band did talk a lot in the early Fever era about how challenging it was to work with their budget when they had so many ideas they wanted to try. None of them were certain exactly how many instruments ended up being layered on the album. A lot of the instruments were digitally created in addition to the drum machines and synthesizers. Like the accordion. A fan interview: What sort of equipment do you use for recording and mixing your beats? What was that called? Spencer : Something like the Yamaha Motif, or something like that.

And he turned out to not be very good under pressure in the future, but the other guys all said similar statements about summer being intense. They arrived with drafts of some songs and everything else was written there. They mostly worked on the songs in the order that they appear on the album. Ryan said that they just re-worked each song until they were happy with it, so no full songs were thrown away.

So it was kind of hard pulling stuff together. We like to sit down with one song and really work it to our liking. They had to be done recording a few days later.

His harmonies were done by recording his voice many different times and then layering that.