Chords for NORMA JEAN - Recording All Hail with Will Putney

Hey, this is Will [D] Putney, producer at Graphic Nature Audio, and today we're recording Normagene.
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_ _ Normagene is very _ [A] invested in the sounds on this [C] record, too.
We're doing a lot of stuff [D] together.
That _ collaborative [A] process has been really awesome.
He was putting in ideas like [C] _ _
a sixth member.
[N] He understands the vibe and he respects the message and [G] wants it to get across in a way that's powerful.
With this [Dm] being my first record with the [Db] band, it's [G] still pretty surreal.
I've been with them for about a year and a [C] half, and it still feels crazy to be here.
I've been [B] listening to Will's records for years as well, so this whole experience [C] has been _ such a huge blessing for me.
[G] I tried to approach my writing and [Bb] the songs that I've contributed to the record from a [C] place of
both where I feel like the band's trying to go after being a part of it, and [A] then also as a fan standpoint.
As [Bb] somebody that's listened to the band since I was [F] a young teenager, I knew what I would want to hear.
We came into the [A] studio _ and it's just [N] run and exercise.
Play the song, play the song again.
Demo it, demo it again.
So we knew the [A] songs so much better before we even started tracking them.
When you're producing a record, sound design is really, really crucial to kind of _ giving the listener
what the vibe of the song should be about or carry the emotions.
So working with Norm and Gina on this record, we've already found a lot of really cool tricks and techniques to get the vibe right.
Some of the unorthodox things are, for me, I try to probably hit a little too hard when I play.
I want it to have a very [C] live feel to it, and I want to hear the strings _ [D]
come out of tune [A] on parts.
I want it to feel like there's an aggressiveness behind playing it, and [G] it's not a computer doing it.
[Db] On one [A] song, we took a big knife and actually did the pick slide with the knife, so we had a lot of coverage on all the [C] strings.
And it sounds pretty gnarly.
One thing that we really do like to do that [G] we've experimented [A] with on the last _ few [C] records
is trying to match the [Db] emotion _ [A] of the song to what we're trying to say.
And Will's been [F] so awesome about making sure that that's coming [A] through too
and has understood that the emotion and the lyrics [Fm] match.
Every day, somebody in the [D] band or myself has this sort [Db] of epiphany, and there's a [C] new idea.
And it's been a really refreshing process to [A] make a record like that.
The themes that I started out with on this record [Bb]
were based [D] on connections that [F] we've had with fans over the [Bb] last _ [F] several years.
[Db] We play a show, we hang out, [N] _ we meet people, and you get to _ know people and you get really close with them.
The one [A] thing I'm most excited for fans to hear about is just the continued growth that this record has.
It has such a _ huge atmosphere to it, and it cannot be pigeonholed in any [N] genre, sub-genre, or anything.
It's got _ the quietest stuff the band's ever done, in my opinion, and the heaviest stuff that the band's ever done, in my opinion.
And everything in between, that's there.
We [A] like the ambient _ ideas. _
[A] But if it's going to be heavy, just _ make it very, very heavy.
I want to keep going.
I _ _ feel like there's something important here, at least to somebody, and I'm going to keep doing it.
I just want to play music with my friends.
_ That's _ really what Norma Jean has always been.
_ [E] Friends, in a garage somewhere, making music.
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