Joshua Woodard — American bassist — is a co-founder of A Day to Remember and has been in the band since its formation in Ocala, Florida. His function in the repertoire is harder than it appears. A Day to Remember alternates pop punk and metalcore within the same song, and the bass has to change behaviour along with it: in the pop punk sections it follows at fast tempo with light, clear articulation; in the breakdowns it drops to a low tuning and works with heavy syncopation alongside the drums. These are two approaches that normally belong to different musicians. More than executing them, one has to make the passage between them invisible — if the bass hesitates in the transition, the seam between the two genres is exposed, and the band's whole formula falls apart. Woodard recorded the entire discography, from And Their Name Was Treason (2005) to You're Welcome (2021), including Homesick (2009), the record that took the group into the American mainstream, and Common Courtesy (2013), released independently in the middle of the legal dispute with the label.
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