

Even if I know what pedals I used on an Amy’ gig, I still might not remember the exact settings on my Vick Audio ’73 Rams Head. During this hiatus, I’m likely to change pedals and do different gigs. I tour with Amy a lot, but sometimes we have a few weeks off. 4 is a page from my journal for Amy Helm. Heavy Collective Soul 01.23.99 1 3 WKS 04.10.99 27 Precious Declaration Collective Soul 05.31.97. If you haven’t been gigging regularly with a particular artist or band, don’t expect you’ll remember preset six for the fourth song in the set in eight months ago.įig. And all your weight It falls on me It brings me down And all your weight It falls on me It falls on me. I will also include notes on what presets I used for which song. Videoklip a text psn Heavy od Collective Soul. I can either scratch my head for an hour or take one minute and look at my notes. Each of these gigs has very specific tone collection and I don’t use the same gear for every gig. I play with a lot of artists and do a wide variety of sessions. I don’t know about you, but I can’t remember what I used two gigs ago, let alone four or five. We’re always trying new pedals and messing with settings, but sometimes we need to turn back the clock. Taking pictures of pedalboards, amp settings, and guitars can really help you get back up to speed on a gig you haven’t played in a bit. On the subject of sounds, I also journal about guitar rigs for the various gigs I do. I can write notes in different colors and highlight them. I can create a transcription and cut and paste it in my journal. It allows me to have a collection of journals, just as I would with a notebook. It includes templates for sheet music, tabs, and ruled paper. There is a wonderful app for the iPad called GoodNotes. To reduce what I needed to carry around, I moved to an iPad. I’d sit in my hotel room and research music and make a mess. I needed to have a book bag with several notebooks, scissors, tape, and blank music paper. Each entry wasn’t a brief moment, but rather a process to be experienced.Īnd although I liked it, it was a little difficult to do consistently on tour.

I’d think about the music more before moving onto something else.

It forced me to take time to write it, cut it out, and tape it.

I’d notate a musical idea on the sheet music, cut it out, tape it into the notebook, and then write my notes around it. I had blank sheets of music paper and a wire-bound notebook. I used to pursue journaling like an arts-and-crafts project. For instance, you can use a traditional notebook. From memory, Dean Roland played a platinum PRS Singlecut through a ton of pedals into a Budda Superdrive head with Marshall cab. Got up close pictures of all their gear and pedalboards. That was written after we thought the record was done, and the guys were like, "No, we need to get this one in there." And I agreed wholeheartedly.There are several ways you can approach journaling. DualRectifier said: I met and hung out with them at a small private party last year. And I wanted a song down to three minutes - I wanted it to move quick. The band currently consists of Ed Roland (vocals, guitar), Dean Roland of Magnets & Ghosts (g read more. I was looking for a word that would fit what I was describing, like "All your weight it falls on me, it brings me down." The riff I felt was a heavy riff, so, "Heavy" just came up. Collective Soul is a rock band which formed in Stockbridge, Georgia, United States in 1992. So, once again, I was being a little bitch I guess - I felt like I was being taken advantage of, so the whole thing is, "All your weight it falls on me." Once again, I wanted to write a song that didn't have a title in the lyrics. Referencing Collective Soul's earlier hit, " December", he said: In a December 2017 interview with Songfacts, lead singer Ed Roland explained the inspiration behind "Heavy".
