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August 20th 2023, 22:21

We did it.

We had our first practice today and it went well. It was a bit difficult to start, but we started jamming and it was really good. We did a like 20 minute jam that sounded a lot like gy!be. Really dope. Theo’s pedals are awesome. And Robin has a looper that I can’t remember the name of. Ed O’Brien uses it as well. Me and Robin made a fantastic loop on the pedal, and used it as a drone https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r8z0D1JxFzpZdBuLD78RzGH-MLvDQ_4-/view?usp=drive_link hope this link works.

We made a really complicated syncopated rhythm that I can’t really describe right now, but here it is

We are playing a melody in unison.

All in all: interesting stuff. I am very excited to see what’s gonna happen in the future

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August 17th 2023, 22:19

I have another band called Salat Partyband with some other guys from my gymnasium. It’s h just a fun cover band. Theodor is a part of Salat Partyband. We had our first practice in a few months, because we have an upcoming concert. I think it’s been about a month since I last saw Theo so it was really nice to see him. He had his pedalboard with him, and he showed me all his pedals.

When we said farewell a told him “see you Sunday”. It’s in 3 days. Very exciting

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August 15 2023, 15:06

We’ll start practicing in 5 days!! Exciting! We’ll be practicing at Robin’s gymnasium, Sankt Annæ. He sent us pictures of the room yesterday

It’s big. And nice. There are no string instruments, so we’ll have to bring those ourselves. There are also only 2 guitar amps, so we’ll have to bring another one ourselves as well, since I think we’re gonna play a lot of guitar

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August 9th 2023, 00:18

Because we are last year-students, we have to play some songs to welcome the freshmen. So we’re at school 2 days earlier than everyone else to practice the songs.

We’re playing Rasputin and I’m the one drumming. So much fun

I’m rushing so much lmao. Not my first choice of instrument.

Malthe and Mathias from my class in the shot. Funny blokes.

It’s also my birthday in 24 hours :D

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August 7th 2023, 15:04

Theodor has been buying a lot of guitar and bass pedals for the new band, and sending me pictures of them. These are the ones he has bought

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August 7th 2023, 03:14 in the morning

Hello everyone. This is a place where I will talk about the progress of my band. I’m doing this because there possibly are some people that will find it interesting to follow the progress of some small band, but I’m mostly doing this as like a diary for myself. This is inspired Ed’s Diary. Ed being Ed O’Brien from Radiohead. I apologise if these blogs are hard and annoying to read through.

I am 18, turning 19 on the 10th, and I am from Denmark. I’m on summer vacation right now but will return to school, also on the 10th, for my third and final year of gymnasium. I am very much into music. Ever since I was little I really liked it. I started having piano lessons when I was 6 years old - that was in 2010. Now I play piano, bass, guitar, drums and I try to sing.

At school I have a lot of friends that are into music. In fact, I am in a ‘music class’, where all my classmates have chosen music on a high level as a main-topic. It’s a lot of fun. I was aware that there were a lot of music people at my gymnasium before I even started. I was really hoping to meet some people that I could start a band with, and make music that I really enjoy, since music is what I want to do with my life. Though there were definitely cool talented people at my gymnasium, there weren’t anybody that I could see myself starting a band with unfortunately. Some people liked the same music as me, but I didn’t like their approach to music. At all. I found a lot of people’s approaches to music to be regressive and unauthentic, and I wouldn’t wanna be in a band with those kind of people, because they would ruin the authenticity.

Now two years later after starting at the gymnasium, I have found some people. They’re not all from my gymnasium, in fact only one of them is, and he’s a year above me. It doesn’t really matter where I know these people from, and it would take forever to explain where I know them from but they’re all perfect, and exactly what I’m looking for. Here’s a quick rundown

Daniel - bass, guitar, clarinet, keyboards, lyrics. Daniel is one of my best friends. I’ve known him for almost 3 years, and he is the sole reason that I know the music I know and love today, because he always shows me stuff. Rate Your Music guy hehe. Daniel has a really good sense of the abstract and is comfortable being experimental. He is also comfortable in lyrics, which is a skill don’t see myself learning anytime soon. Me and Daniel have actually played together in a band before called Musik 3. It was alright, but tensions were bad between the members so we broke it up. Don’t miss very much lol. But me and Daniel still wanted to do music together.

Romeo - Guitar, Piano, Synth. I haven’t even known Romeo for a year yet. I met him last fall. I met him at a music camp thing (which, fun fact, all of us went to at the same time). We were split into groups with people that we didn’t know, and we had to write a song together. I was in group with Romeo. He played guitar and I played bass. The song we made was really bad, but we enjoyed making it. I was just so amazed at Romeo’s ability to come with tasteful guitar lines on the spot. He is the only person I’ve met that has had as great relative pitch as me.

This was the song we made

And this is us playing it live

Theodor - bass, guitar, piano, synth, drums, singing, rapping, producing, lyrics. Theodor is a genius to me. I am amazed every time I see him play. He just finished his last year at the same gymnasium as me, so that’s where I know him from. I’m pretty shy, so it took me me some time to really get friends with Theodor. I’ve always thought he was a cool guy, but I was still scared to connect with him, because he was one of the older students - and because he was GOOD at music. He’s in a rap group from Roskilde which are seeing some success right now in the underground rap scene in Denmark. Other rappers are talking about them and mentioning them. But some months ago I finally got friends with him, and I asked if he wanted to make a band, and he said yes. What a blessing.

Robin - drums, synth, rapping, producing, lyrics. Robin is the one I know least well. Solely because I haven’t spoken to him as much as the other guys. But we’ve had some laughs where you really could tell we thought each other were cool, so I’m pretty sure it’ll work out. Robin is very very close friends with Theodor. He’s also part of the rap group which Theo is in. And inside the rap group, they are the ones that work together the most. They’re like me and Daniel. Theo and Robin have a lot experience, and they are so good at making really good stuff really fast, which me and Daniel can be pretty slow at. I asked Robin to join, because I heard he was a good drummer, and I really wanted a good drummer. When I asked Theo if Robin was a good drummer he said “Eh, he’s probably as good as me” and that was good enough, because Theo is a pretty alright drummer. I’m looking forward to work with Robin.

Now, the band is finally starting up, and we have our first session on the 20th. We are all 5 really excited. We are all sending pictures of our pedals, and writing demos, and fantasising about how the concerts will play out, so we’re all very excited. I will probably do another blog post before the 20th. Don’t know that it will be about.

This is all very new and exciting. It seems like us 5 guys will work out perfectly, but it’s still hard to know how it all is gonna play out..

Until next post - here’s a song I’m listening to a lot: