In 2001, a long audition process began. Eventually, Sketch "tired of auditions," and decided to "just hire some people." After finding a handful of like-minded musicians, Katie assigned them instruments and taught them to play. Taught is a relative term though—Debbie had been playing guitar for three years, and Sketch has expressed distaste in interviews when portrayed as a "music teacher" to the girls: "press seems to think they had a lot of help or something, but mostly it's just the drive to be able to learn the instruments and play them," Sketch said. "teaching them was maybe a half-an-hour, hour process."