🧨 Kassiopeia Weekly — 06/22/01
We just finished tracking final vocals for This Is Where the Idea Began yesterday. 🎙️
🥁 The Most “Punk” Song So Far
This song might be the most straight-up punk track on the album—keeping an upbeat, cut-time drum beat for most of it. Conceptually, I was trying to lean in on the idea of a static, catchy little motif supported by a progression of different bass root notes. That gives the line a shifting emotional tone and adds something compelling to an otherwise simple structure.
There’s also a lot of driving 8th-note progressions, which inject more harmonic information before the bass and guitar settle into their interaction—subtle melodic lines woven across sections, not layered but intertwined.
🎸 Minimal Parts, Rich Sound
This was one of the earliest songs in the album’s development, and it served as a kind of proof of concept:
That with a single guitar part and a grounded bassline, you can still build a rich harmonic environment.
Guitar and bass work together here—not stacked, but interdependent. The bass sticks to the punk foundation, while the guitar adds nuance through split-string voicings and melodic tremolo picking.
🎧 Vocal Session Recap
We finished vocal tracking in about three hours yesterday. Since then, Zane’s editing has really helped the performance land. I’m especially stoked about the syncopated rhythmic passages he created—cutting across the straight, freight-train feel of the guitars and drums with something more expressive and dynamic.
It’s a cool contrast: the relentless backdrop vs. the shifting vocal rhythms up front. 🔥
🛠️ Wrapping Up
It feels good to have this one nearly locked in.
It’s simple, fast, melodic, and raw—everything we set out to do when this project started.
More soon. 💿