The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can't hear those who you are jamming with.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.
I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.
Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.
When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.
So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.
I love jamming with my band because the guys inspire me every time. We all get off on each other's playing.
I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.
Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me; I really don't enjoy it.