{"id":71,"date":"2009-05-04T11:33:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T18:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/?p=71"},"modified":"2009-05-06T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T20:00:05","slug":"mastodon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/2009\/05\/mastodon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastodon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brann Dailor, drummer of progressive sludge metal band Mastodon<\/a>, comments on the role of jamming and the absence of “songs” in the band’s writing process:<\/p>\n

It’s a long, arduous process. We’ve got a skeleton for the whole record and these huge chunks of music four of five different segments that don’t have a beginning or end yet… We’re just basically in the middle of the record, adding stuff, giving it a taste then adding a little more ‘pepper’ or ‘salt.’ Once all the ingredients are in there, you have to bake it \u2014 which is just playing it over and over again until it feels right. The main goal is to get the songs right so you don’t have to think about the time changes \u2014 so you can relax with it and play it how it should be played. There’s a level of difficulty to our stuff and if you’re too wrapped up in trying to remember how many times something goes and the timing for the next riff, you can’t examine the song for being a song. So it takes a while.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: Rock Sound magazine, via Blabbermouth.net<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Brann Dailor, drummer of progressive sludge metal band Mastodon, comments on the role of jamming and the absence of “songs” in the band’s writing process: It’s a long, arduous process. We’ve got a skeleton for the whole record and these huge chunks of music four of five different segments that don’t have a beginning or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketuritzin.com\/songwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}