Chords for Mini Mansions interview - Michael Shuman and Tyler Parkford (part 3)

_ So it's kind of a [F] weird experience and not [D#] the experience [D] we'd like to do again
_ _ [G#] _ There's a quote [G] that you said that well, we tried every [Am] possibility and every avenue for every [F#] song
How did it go when you wrote the songs [N] again?
You actually well tried everything
recording wise or _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] We got this each song goes through like a ton of [G#] waves depending on how how much we like the
The demo [F#] to written version so in other words like
You know like we'll [G#m] go through we'll go we'll [G] change the parts or what [F#m] we'll have a different ending or we'll go
We'll add on [F#] other parts.
We'll go through sometimes like _
20 different versions of the song just to figure out what works [D#] and sometimes we end up coming back to like one [B] of the first
Five or whatever just to [F#m] realize that those were probably the strongest
Yeah, and in the beginning especially to like trying to [D] figure out what the band was
We didn't really know I mean, you know if it's gonna be guitars bass drums
_ [D#] At [D] that point I didn't even play drums.
So
[F] That point [D] was a lot of like how does [E] this this song sound [C#] good as a piano song or [D] does it sound good being played?
on guitar
So at that point there really was actually a lot of switching and we'd have like, okay your turn you get on [D#] the keys
all right, I'll go I'll try this and
either someone sucked at the [C#] instrument it didn't work right or
You [F] know or just didn't sound right and we really [D] would go through every option
Just to do it
Even even if it [D#] we've seen if we knew the kind of result wouldn't be right [D] just like let's try it and see if it works
Yeah, but [Am] but if you even do it at the [F#] last song I mean
I can imagine that you got used to and that you better
Knew what what could work on a song or did you do it even all the way up to [G] the end?
Yeah, that's the thing.
Once we kind of figured out
[C#] some kind of
you know a
Solution [D] and it was kind of like that's what our setup is now is [C#] keyboards bass and [G] drums
that kind of seemed [D] to be the
the easiest way to
I [C#] guess create what we you know, we had [G] envisioned
_ [G#] Right.
I mean, that's [C#] what we do now [D] mostly.
So by the [Em] time we wrote the record by the time we [D] recorded the record
It was that setup with it with [C#] a few songs on the tarp, you know
There's guitar on the record that we don't do live but [N] that's about it.
What was it like to record in the
Just home video
Yeah, [F] it was great
[F#] Um, I think it [E] kind of felt [D#] like you know
Like the clubhouse like kind [D] of home base to be able to go there and it's very relaxed
It's with our friends and justice
_ Recording with [C#] him as you know was very laid-back
[G] And also [F#] there wasn't you know, you're not in some studio where you're [D] paying
$2,000 a day and you're on a time crunch and you have to get shit done.
And yeah, it's very it was very
[C#] This next week if we want to also we [Em] were we were brand new [D#] bands.
We were really excited about touring
[C#] We just want like go and get in the van
[D#]
So we would come back a [D] lot and [C#] take two weeks off and then come back to do another week
[Gm] _ [F] So it's kind of a weird experience and not only good experience.
[D] We'd like to do again
Yeah, I kind of like the idea of going in, you know for two weeks to a month or whatever and just do it
_ _ right, um, I think it's more focused and
[B] _
_ Maybe it's just like a dream
like _
[D] Scenario where you you lock yourself in a room, you know
That's kind of what they [F#m] used to do.
Like [D#] bands used to [D] do a record a year [D#] and
Tour and [D] then next year do a record tour
So [D#] you had a certain time frame where you had to get a record done
So they would lock themselves in for a month
Yeah, and that's just what I always dreamt about [D] doing as a kid, you know, so I
Would rather do that next time but this is the way it was
[G] But do you think this was better than I mean for the [C#] songs if you have to if you have a certain time
Time for you have to do it.
[D#] I wouldn't say better or worse
It's just the way it was and it worked out exactly how we want.
[D] We still created exactly what we wanted to [G] do
[B] _ _ and I
Read somewhere that [Am] there was actually a little piano toy from torturous that you use on the album
Boys [Em] arrest torture.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you mean like the dollar?
No, I mean the
toy piano
I'm gonna [F] get one.
[Gm] Oh
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
[E] I don't know.
I don't know if it's from toys or [Am] us.
It's called like the concert mate [D#] concert mate
200 it's [D] called.
Yeah, the little one.
Yeah, [Am] really?
It's concert me.
Oh, okay
_ _ _ _ Well, I _
Bought it at like a second [G]-hand thrift store _ _ _
[F#] Because I I tried it out it had batteries in it already I just tried it out and had weird sounds
_ _ So it also had beats on it
And I think sometimes that's really what I I try to look for because I'm not really interested in getting just cheap
keyboards just for the sake of doing that this one that specifically had [G#] like
crate like like car horns and like [E] giraffe sounds and like all these like saxophone like
Really bad versions of [F#] saxophone but coming from this little speaker
So
Zack wrote this like tune that was really rad and
_ then I
Tried it out on this little [E] keyboard and it actually worked perfectly, you know, cuz it's it's so
It sounds small, but I guess we made it we put a lot of shit on it.
So like it sounds like a lot bigger
[G] I think I don't you know that I don't the same keyboard though a little one
No, I don't [N] see he that we did for one of them yet.
No you're tight see that's that
We did definitely use that but we also used the little there's a little piano in pink duck that
[G] Actually has piano legs and it's set up like a pin.
Remember you yeah, I [F#] feel yeah
Okay, there was like a little baby seat to a little chair [G] that big
I remember him [D#] sitting down in the little baby chair with a little baby [F#] piano.
I had the legs
Yeah for the first [D#] thing yet for first thing yet.
It's that kind of sounds like a glockenspiel.
Yeah, because it's so small
[D] The kind of [E] peanuts peanuts like that kid from peanuts.
Yeah
The what's the sound of you talking [A] about yeah
_ [B] _
That way that's the same song though same [Em] same song there's another keyboard that's [G] like this big that's just like a toy
You know [F#] that just happened to have the right sounds for that specific song [Am] even the beat [B] came from that.
So
[G#m] The first thing yet
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _