Task A and B context work

Contemporary artists

The two artistes I'm going to compare is J Cole and Skrillex the equipment they use and how they use it in there music. 

J Cole use a lot of sampling in his music but he uses it differently from most artistes. He use it in a way where it easy to come up with ideas for a song. for example most of his sampled drum sample and that give him ideas to come up with new instrumentation for the song. another example would be when he was making power trip he took a flute sample and gain idea from just that loop

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J Cole also use logic for sampling and uses a midi controller too. how he dose is by taking a sample off somewhere edit it of you want it to sound put the sample in the EXS24 and you can be able to play your sample from the midi controller.


Skrillex  uses totally different Equipment due to the different type of artistes they are. as a DJ he use turntables and tractor to make and present his music.he also uses a a finger trigger midi controller as well.


With my work I've used logic and a midi controller. I have followed the foot step of j cole and used samples in my music. I also used machine drum pad while making one of my music which was a great experience for me.

For my DJing I'm using tractor to present my music i makle on logic and music from other artistes I'v chosen to present.


References:
http://equipboard.com/pros/skrillex/#studio-equipment   

j cole

finding faults

In this song at around 8:50 the mistake that wasn't fix was a sound that sound like someone was play some sort of instrument while recording.

This could of been prevented buy cutting that part out and recording it again from we're it got interrupted by the noise. or they could compress the audio so that sound wouldn't appear.    

My Proposal

Introduction

What I would like to do for my project is to make a couple songs and perform some of them. I also want to work with other people on my songs and do one cover at least. I would like to use backing tracks as well as a live band to perform my song and cover. I also want to learn and embed different chords in my music so it sounds interesting and complex to those who will be listening to my song

Context

As a composer, my work sounds a lot like game beats. what I would like to make hip-hop beat instead with samples and the type of music that making people remember my lyrics while bumping their hand or making some kind of gesture. For this to happen I need to look up on using plug-ins and how to use the sampler on logic x and also how to make my music loud but at the same time not clipping.

As a songwriter, I find it hard to write verses and come up with chords so I need to work on that. I also find it hard to come up with ideas on what to write about which always gets to me when writing lyrics which I would need some help on that by my classmate or teachers.

Researches 

I would be researching artist that write hip hop songs. this will help come up with idea on both my song writing and composing skills. I'm gonna also research old hip hop artist and how they make the song and come up with ideas from them I can put into my work. artist, I would look up on will be: Nas, J Cole, Kendrick Lamer and other people like them. I also research lyrics and chords hip hop artists use which contains: jazz voicing, cluster chords, etc. How I plan on using these is for the chords of my song that will hold up the whole song. Weekly I'll be sat on a computer learning and practicing these chords until they became second nature to me and hopefully be able to use them in my music. 

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This video is J Cole preforming crooked smile and this is a way I would like to preform my music with a live band also. I chose this video cause I was heavily inspired on how J Cole performs with his band. This is also my ideal way i would like to try and preform and for that to happen I need to gain much more confidence on stage to include it in my performance.

Timeline.

In 3-5 weeks I will be working on writing the music for my song and editing it. I'll also get a band to preform 2 covers and practice with them. In 6-8 weeks I will finish with my song and be writing lyrics for it and finishing my practicing the covers and both covers and originals to ready to preform.

my work songwriting

For both of my work i could only come wih lyrics for the course since writing lyrics is not my strongest part in songwriteing. i repeated the same words in both of the song to have the same style as j coles song crooked smile. in terms of intrumation most of the chorsed i used are use alot in a lot of artistes since 2010 till now which is where i got the ideas from.

playlist plan my plan

For this project it gotta be a better then the decade project we previously did. What I think the best way to present our playlist is to put it online so everyone can download it on to there devices. I also think it would be a good idea to present it live to an audience so it gives us a much wider audience and there would share it online.I believe the best way of reaching a bigger audience is to get one of us that knows a lot of people on social media to share it online telling them to also share it. our art work cant have the college's music logo we need to come up with other art works something that with catch peoples eyes. something with lots of colour and meaning about us. My research is big artistes that have release albums. Most of them have art work that is relative to the albums name or was they are talking about. As for the our audience My research is based on how we got our audience to listen to our decade playlist.

playlist plan/class meeting

My class and I came together and gave our ideas and thought on our last playlist.

Week 1
We had a few really good ideas the we can do to get more people listen to our music and some ideas the might not work(cats). what we came up was the we could do a lyrical intro and Outro.


Week 2
today we talked about what our art work is going be on, how are we going to present it and on what social media is it going to be put on. he picked sound-cloud and YouTube


Week 3
in our meeting we had a vote on what art work we are going have on our playlist, if we show have a logo on the picture in our playlist and if we should/shouldn't have a text as a group or individual. we also talked about when we should larch the playlist and we came up with emailing the students to listen and share the playlist