GertrudeRock.com
Title
Welcome to the official Gertrude web site.
Description
A lot of our songs have been written around pre thought out guitar structures. Often these are songs/ideas which Iona and/or Ayesha have already worked out outside group rehersels. Sometimes vocal melody lines have also been thought out at this stage, or alternatively someone will write the vocal lines during rehersels. Zoe may take home a tape of a practice to listen to and work on ideas from there. Each member is then left to work out her own individual parts to go with the song in hand, but we all offer direction, and the original song shape might alter, as can the original guitar parts. Often, the most exciting, additional parts, whole middle and end sections for example, can stem and spark from an interesting bass riff or drum patten.
We have also started to make use of computer programes for audio recording such as cubase and demo ideas more. This is a new way for us to work and is very exciting. We also hope to have more time to just jam together and work on all group members ideas.
