At precisely noon that day both Daniel and Teal'c knocked on Sam's door. The door opened to reveal Sam dressed in a nice pair of flair jeans with a green stiletto open-toed heels, a brown shirt with speckles of gold on it. She had her hair, which was now down past her shoulders, down and slightly curly. Daniel and Teal'c had all of their instruments in their hands and Daniel asked, "Do we need our amps or do you have one? Because I could go and get mine from my car."
"No Daniel I have everything you need, except for your instruments that is." Sam said cracking a smile. "Come on in you guys, and thank you for doing this for me."
"That's what friends are for." Daniel said and they all went down to Sam's basement where she had a recording studio set up, and an area for the band rehearsals. "WOW! This is amazing! So this is what you do on your downtime."
"Yeah." Sam said as she went across the room and picked up a stack of sheet music where Cassie had put it the day before, and handed the right parts to Daniel, Teal'c and Cassie. "Here is the music, I hope that it sounds all right. I'm not exactly an expert on all musical instruments." She said, slightly unsure of herself.
"I'm sure that it's great Sam, but if you want we can look it over and if there is anything that stands out to us we'll let you know." Daniel said reassuring her that everything would be fine.
"Thank you. I guess that I'm worried about what everyone will think when they hear me tonight. I'm guess I'm nervous."
"That's totally understandable Sam, I mean I could never go through with something like that." Daniel said honestly
"Daniel!" Cassie shouted at him to try to get him to shut up.
"I mean performing an original song in front of all those people!" Daniel continued
"Daniel! When I said Daniel I meant Stop Talking!" Cassie exclaimed. "Don't listen to him Sam, everyone will love you… and your music."
"Thanks Cassie. That means a lot coming from you. Well guys we better start working, because we only have a few hours to have it done." Sam said and the guys started pulling out their instruments and tuning them. When that was done Daniel, Teal'c, and Cassie started to plunk out their parts and marking on their music. Sam went over to the studio and started setting it up along with her computer, and got everything ready to start recording since she already had her Violin, and guitar ready.
"This looks great Sam. I can't wait to hear you perform tonight, that is if you want us there?" Daniel asked.
"Of course I want you there. After all you are helping me to make it so that I can perform. That and you're my friends, practically my family. Why wouldn't I want you there?"
"I don't know. Anyway what do you want to start with?" Daniel asked since he hasn't ever recorded anything before.
"Let's start with the drums Cassie, so that way we can build from there." Sam said and Cassie started moving her Drum set into the studio, and a music stand along with her music. Sam set up a choir microphone to pick up the sound, and hooked it up to the sound system in the microphone channel. She plugged the headphones into the sound system in the monitor channel. After Cassie had everything set up that she needed Sam said, "Ok. Cassie, sound check." And Cassie pounded out a beat that sounded suspiciously like 'Louie, Louie'. "Ok. We're good. Put on the headphones, and whenever you're ready you can start." Cassie played through the whole song flawlessly, and Sam said, "Ok. That's perfect. Why don't you move your stuff while Daniel, Teal'c, and set up in the studio?"
"Ok." Cassie said as she started to move her drums. Sam put two more music stands into the studio, and unplugged the microphone. She also plugged in two more headphones into the monitor channel. Daniel, Teal'c, and Sam all got their guitars plugged into the sound system, and Sam explained to Cassie exactly what to do. They put their headphones on and got their music squared away. "Will you give me a sound check please?" Cassie said and all three of them started to play 'Smoke on the Water'. "Ha Ha Ha, very funny guys. Ok. Playing back the percussion to your headphones now." Cassie said and Daniel, Sam, and Teal'c played their parts in time with the drums while it was being recorded. Each thing that was recorded was stored on her computer so she could layer the tracks later to make the music track.
When that was all recorded Sam set up the choir microphone again for the strings, and told Teal'c how to use the sound system. Then Sam took out her Violin, Daniel took out his Cello, and Cassie took out her Viola and they put the headphones on and played their parts to the percussion part being piped through the headphones. When that was all done Sam set out to start layering the tracks and synch it while everyone else was looking at the other piece if music that needed to be recorded. When that was done they did that all over again for the other song for everything except the strings, because they weren't needed in this song. When that was done Sam layered and synched the tracks and burned both songs onto a CD in order of when she will perform them.
"Thanks guys! I don't think that I would have gotten this done if it wasn't for you." Sam said
"No problem. It was fun!" Daniel said to her sincerely.
