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Today is the one year anniversary since the name Frozen Coco was adopted by our band (a look at the old forum topic showed this)! 

I can play the keyboard and the tuba...can i join?

technoguyx wrote:

^to the name Frozen Coco 

Interesting quotes from the same thread:

technoguyx wrote:

Hopefully we manage to record at least an EP though.

"At least". 

jslomba wrote:

it would be cool if we made one music video sorta stop motion by drawing different frames on paper like that.

Thought of doing this for "Out of the Possible" recently.

veggieman001 wrote:

Once you have the song done, I could play it on veggieradio along with an interview with one of you.

never happened qq

technoguyx wrote:

I think we should try to get advertising in some popular Scratch magazines, like Rockers' Weekly or Scratchazine.

Couldn't advertise in either, MVTY still got 600+ views + a curation. Yeeaaaahh.

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Other dates:

25/7: I wrote the intro riff to "When I'm Beside You."
27/7: jslomba uploads a demo of what would become "Lazy Sunday Jam."
12/8: "My Voice to You" released.
13/8: I wrote "Gone."
15/8: "My Voice to You" curated. Insane amounts of views. 
20/8: designer45 adds us to Song Meanings. We could use that 
25/8: Lellowsfuzz joins as pianist.
02/10: First topic closed due to me quitting Scratch for a while. Did my best to not make drama out of it though 
(iirc) 24/12: "When I'm Beside You" released.

...I don't know why I just spent half an hour to post this.

LOL, I saw all those quotes when going through the thread this morning! 

You must have been jobless to do all that.    How was school yesterday? Don't you have to be in school right now?

^We don't need neither a tuba or an additional keyboardist right now, thanks.

DIY wrote:

LOL, I saw all those quotes when going through the thread this morning! 

You must have been jobless to do all that.    How was school yesterday? Don't you have to be in school right now?

Yesterday we did pretty much nothing    I go to school in the afternoon.

Singapore is 12 hours infront or behind USA, and i start at 7 till 3 in singapore time...

technoguyx wrote:

DIY wrote:

When are your school hours? 

2:00 - 8:30 PM

Gotta notate Blissful Rapture's first (before interlude) solo now.

EDIT: ...I'm seriously considering using something other than Noteflight from now on to notate. It's insanely slow, as I've mentioned, and I can't even tab out frets above 10 with the number keys now. D:<

Wow. We start school just after 8:00 am and finish at 3:20.

Noteflight is very fast for me. How is it so slow for you? 

LolaRose1892 wrote:

DIY wrote:

technoguyx wrote:

2:00 - 8:30 PM

Gotta notate Blissful Rapture's first (before interlude) solo now.

EDIT: ...I'm seriously considering using something other than Noteflight from now on to notate. It's insanely slow, as I've mentioned, and I can't even tab out frets above 10 with the number keys now. D:<

Wow. We start school just after 8:00 am and finish at 3:20.

We start at 7:45am and finish at 3:30pm!    You lucky guy xD

LOL, my old school finished at 1.00 p.m.! That was even luckier. 

And talking of lucky, we have three months of summer vacation!

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technoguyx wrote:

DIY wrote:

Noteflight is very fast for me. How is it so slow for you? 

Probably my laptop    It even starts whirring when I place a single note.

I have an ancient laptop (over 10 years old), which I rarely use, and it's not as bad as yours. 

The only problem though is you can't press the left mouse key or the computer shuts down. 

jslomba wrote:

so, DIY's 5 new songs are going in the third album, right? I think we have enough songs in our second.

Also, I'll be leaving tomorrow on a very long vacation. Noteflight wasn't working for my computer when I tried to record Blissful Rapture yesterday and today, so maybe someone else could record the drum track?

The best of them will go in the second album. We have to pick the cream of the lot, not on the basis of what was uploaded first...

I got a great new electric drum kit from which I may try to record 'Blissful Rapture' in that case. Techno, how about your Addictive Drums?

technoguyx wrote:

Yes, we must pick the songs that'll go in this album based in their quality and not the order of composition. If you ask me, the ones that are definitely going in the first are:

-Out of the Possible; possibly first single
-Blissful Rapture
-Early December
-hpotter's song; forgot title
-DIY's "masterpiece"
-DIY's funky song
-Flashback; it just needs a bit of guitar and bass

...but we have heaps of time to decide that, and to keep writing and recording songs. 

DIY wrote:

Techno, how about your Addictive Drums?

Don't have that installed currently, and the preset sounds tend to sound pretty artificial and noticeably different from jslomba's tracks - I'd give jsl's tracks priority for the sake of continuity - keeping a constant sound in the album.

We musn't decide on those songs either yet; stuff like the masterpiece, Out of the Possible, Blissful Rapture and Early December though are likely.

I already did record the drums to the opening song and had mixed it because jslomba failed to get back to me quick enough. For the sake of progress, I went ahead and did it, so there shouldn't be a problem with the different drum tracks. And it gives certain songs a pleasant sound without having all of them sound rather tinny.

hpotter134 wrote:

technoguyx wrote:

Yes, we must pick the songs that'll go in this album based in their quality and not the order of composition. If you ask me, the ones that are definitely going in the first are:

-Out of the Possible; possibly first single
-Blissful Rapture
-Early December
-hpotter's song; forgot title
-DIY's "masterpiece"
-DIY's funky song
-Flashback; it just needs a bit of guitar and bass

...but we have heaps of time to decide that, and to keep writing and recording songs. 

Yeah, that looks like a good lineup for an album 

Not sure we should record my song (Mellow Song), it's rather dull and overly complicated to record.

I am working a few other songs at the moment...maybe they'll turn out recording-worthy.
Here's what I'm working on now...it's called "Homeward Bound". Thoughts? Comments?

Yeah. I was also thinking that your song might not fit techno's and my style of song-writing for the album. I like Homeward Bound better though (I like the ending guitar work; perhaps it could be used for a song intro?), but you definitely have to change the title since Paul Simon has an extremely famous song by the same name, which is a personal favourite of mine. XD

The same goes with jslomba's songs (they are very simple compared to techno's and mine); I'm sure you'll agree with me, techno. To be frank, they are too basic 

I'd like to hear something as good as LSJ from you, jslomba. Could you pull off another song like that? 

EDIT: Mari (ContinentalRain) just contacted me through Tumblr and she's made good progress on the vocals for "Blissful Rapture" and "Early December". I'm sure she'll produce good vocal tracks for those two songs. 

Last edited by DIY (2012-02-19 10:17:28)

hpotter134 wrote:

DIY wrote:

Yeah. I was also thinking that your song might not fit techno's and my style of song-writing for the album. I like Homeward Bound better though (I like the ending guitar work; perhaps it could be used for a song intro?), but you definitely have to change the title since Paul Simon has an extremely famous song by the same name, which is a personal favourite of mine. XD

Rats!    I thought I was being clever...ok, I'll be sure to change it.

LOL, yeah! 

You'd better do so asap. 

technoguyx wrote:

These ideas of yours are pretty good, hpotter    They'd fit the rest of the songs much better. Perhaps I could add some subtle bass lines and fills here and there. DIY, I do agree that jslomba's are a bit too basic, though LSJ was basic in a great way - easily made it one of the best tracks in Crimson Love. I think Flashback and -Ersatz- have the potential to be about as good with little change, though. 

I know I've been procrastinating quite a bit with the progress I'm supposed to make on our band's songs, but from now 'till Monday I got loads of stuff to do: Write and record a song with German lyrics for then (a contest which nobody entered - me and my friends get a free trip for little effort  ), read a book and study it's vocabulary for tomorrow, rehearse with my metal band again and hopefully start coding two projects of mine in Lua.

If Flashback and -Ersatz- can be improved on, they can definitely be considered. I've mixed quite a few of my own songs already, but they're missing vocals.

Do you have any other ideas for original songs, techno? I still have quite a lot coming my way.