How a song is structured is a massive part of how it’s going to interact with the listener, that’s why this week we took the time to plan O’Brien’s tracks and run through them in more detail than the previous week. After inviting Chris Gill to the session, who is a drummer who also attends Lincoln University, we set up an overhead microphone in the drum booth and set O’Brien up in the live room in a way that they could see each other as well as being able to hear one another to jam through the tracks. Phil and I were in the control room recording the whole session and also on the talk-back coming in with ideas on beats and where parts of the song could change. One thing we noticed was the tempo of one on track was a little slower than we had recorded the previous week and so we took time out to really note down a good speed for the song for it to work to its full potential. One major change this week involved dropping one track recorded the previous week and replacing it with one of his stronger compositions. After the session had finished we listened over the material we had gathered over the following days finalising the structure to take into next weeks session where we would be laying down drum tracks. I came away from this weeks session feeling that it was very productive to have Chris Gill come in and see what the tracks were all about and now he could practice them up until the recording day.