{"id":133,"date":"2011-09-12T01:14:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T06:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/?p=133"},"modified":"2012-08-25T15:06:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T20:06:41","slug":"week-3-pat-boerner-something-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/2011\/09\/week-3-pat-boerner-something-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3: Pat Boerner and Brittany Miller &#8211; &#8220;Something To Say&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-piano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"pat-piano\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-piano-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week I recorded with two of my former roommates, Pat Boerner and his fianc\u00e9 Brittany Miller. This is actually the first song Pat ever wrote and Brittany helped out with, and now years later it&#8217;s finally recorded!<\/p>\n<p><!-- degradable html5 audio and video plugin --><div class=\"audio_wrap html5audio\"><div style=\"display:none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-boerner-and-brittany-miller-something-to-say.mp3\" title=\"Click to open\" id=\"f-html5audio-0\">Audio MP3<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"f-html5audio-0\", {soundFile: \"http:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-boerner-and-brittany-miller-something-to-say.mp3\"});<\/script><\/div><audio controls autobuffer id=\"html5audio-0\" class=\"html5audio\"><source src=\"http:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-boerner-and-brittany-miller-something-to-say.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-boerner-and-brittany-miller-something-to-say.mp3\" title=\"Click to open\" id=\"f-html5audio-0\">Audio MP3<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"f-html5audio-0\", {soundFile: \"http:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-boerner-and-brittany-miller-something-to-say.mp3\"});<\/script><\/audio><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">if (jQuery.browser.mozilla) {tempaud=document.getElementsByTagName(\"audio\")[0]; jQuery(tempaud).remove(); jQuery(\"div.audio_wrap div\").show()} else jQuery(\"div.audio_wrap div *\").remove();<\/script><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/musicftp\/pat-boerner-and-brittany-miller-something-to-say.mp3\">Something To Say<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nby Pat Boerner and Brittany Miller<\/p>\n<p><em>Hey don&#8217;t you fret now I know you&#8217;ll make it<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You&#8217;re feeling blue and your thoughts are racing<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Just breathe in slow and let me squeeze my baby<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hey baby don&#8217;t wait too long to stop thinking<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You keep so quiet, you&#8217;re not helping anybody<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Well don&#8217;t be afraid, you can tell me<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I don&#8217;t know why you keep me so far away<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But I&#8217;ll wait, I&#8217;ll stay<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Until you think you&#8217;ve got something to say<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You keep me so far away<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But I&#8217;ll wait, I&#8217;ll stay<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Until you think you&#8217;ve got something to say<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You&#8217;re so composed but I know you&#8217;re faking<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You try to smile but your lips are shaking<\/em><br \/>\n<em>So I&#8217;ll be here when you just can&#8217;t take it anymore<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hey baby don&#8217;t wait too long to stop thinking<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You keep so quiet, you&#8217;re not helping anybody<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Well don&#8217;t be afraid, you can tell me<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I don&#8217;t know why you keep me so far away<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But I&#8217;ll wait, I&#8217;ll stay<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Until you think you&#8217;ve got something to say<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You keep me so far away<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But I&#8217;ll wait, I&#8217;ll stay<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Until you think you&#8217;ve got something to say<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Until you think you&#8217;ve got something to say<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Cause if you think you&#8217;ve got something<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Then say it to me baby<\/em><br \/>\n<em>If you think you&#8217;ve got something to say<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Think you&#8217;ve got something to say<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pat and Brittany have written and recorded several awesome songs, many for the SpinTunes songwriting contest (check out &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/spintown.bandcamp.com\/track\/baby-go-to-sleep\">Baby Go To Sleep<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; one of my favorites). So I was excited to work with them and bounce ideas off of each other.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_135\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-and-brittany-listening.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135\" class=\"size-large wp-image-135\" title=\"pat-and-brittany-listening\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-and-brittany-listening-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-and-brittany-listening-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-and-brittany-listening-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-and-brittany-listening-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pat and Brittany, clearly in awe at how awesome the song was sounding.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We started by recording pat&#8217;s piano part. I was considering recording the audio signal from Pat&#8217;s keyboard, but I decided instead to record only the MIDI signal from his keyboard. If you haven&#8217;t tried using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midi\">MIDI<\/a>, I highly recommend checking it out. Instead of recording the actual sounds from a keyboard, you record the raw data of which notes are pressed when. The old-school equivalent of MIDI is when people recorded piano rolls for player pianos. The sweet part about MIDI is that you can change the timing of notes, change the pitch of indiviual notes, or draw completely new notes in. You can also decide at any time what synth instrument you want to play the part.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_139\" style=\"width: 756px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/midi-wide.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139\" title=\"midi-wide\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/midi-wide.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"746\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/midi-wide.png 746w, https:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/midi-wide-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/midi-wide-500x213.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The MIDI &quot;piano roll&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So once we had the piano part down, we moved onto Pat&#8217;s vocals. He knew from his own recording experience that he would want to do a bunch of takes, so we ended up doing about seven of them. He pretty much nailed all of them, but it just gave me a bunch of different options for my &#8220;best of&#8221; mix that I did for the final vocal line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-singing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-136\" title=\"pat-singing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-singing-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-singing-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-singing-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charliemccarron.com\/songaweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pat-singing-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the next few days, Pat recorded the trombone and trumpet lines, we assembled a MIDI drum track, I recorded the bass and guitar parts, and Brittany recorded the harmonies she wrote. It was that simple! Ha, if only. It took quite a bit of work to get all those parts recorded and mixed. The final count is 40 different instrument tracks, not including the takes we didn&#8217;t use. One night I stayed up til 2:30am recording the guitar, then woke up with an idea at 5:30am and recorded until I had to go into work. Totally worth it though.<\/p>\n<p>Check back this week &#8211; my roommate Jeff Schwinghammer shot some behind the scenes footage, and is editing it as I type this post!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I recorded with two of my former roommates, Pat Boerner and his fianc\u00e9 Brittany Miller. This is actually the first song Pat ever wrote and Brittany helped out with, and now years later it&#8217;s finally recorded! 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