my project presentation

The feedback I got from my classmate was that I should first and for most get a band to preform and fast. they also said when making my original song i should keep it simple and when preforming take the drums out and let a drummer drum on it.

With these feedback i'm taking in to heart and doing every I can do to at least came close to reach those goal. How I will reach these goals is to do a 4 week schedule of rehearsing since the L3 performance have band workshop from the beginning of the term. This will help to balance out my original songs and covers and also time to edit things that needed editing.  

case study

In this case study i'm going to look at j cole and how his chords and lyrics work with each other and with that i'm hoping to achieve in my music. The area I need to work on it the use of complex chords and J Cole is a great example of the and a good example of is work is not to self.

with the chords in this song their very simple and repetition. the reason for that is to give the lyrics and the other instrument in the song more room in the song. With his lyrics it like he's telling a story. He sings about his childhood with his mother and how much he loves her and in the chorus he talks about himself and how he all see things positive. In the rap part there no specific subject he talks about. In this song, he raps and sings the chorus and verses . how he goes about doing is that he sing the first verse and the chorus and then switches the verse to rapping then switches it back. With his vocals in this song, they are the melody of the song which work well with the bass and piano.    

this song by j Cole has really complex chords and I've been trying to work out them out
working out the chords for this song I've come to a conclusion that the chords contain for the verses

B Major
E Minor
C Major
and  G Minor.

The lyrics in this song talk about love and the feeling you get over it. he talk about no matter who no matter where no matter how you will feel it. Thought out the song he sings the song instead of rapping.Then he dose an outro. The vocals follows with the chords both in the verse and the chorus.



With researching J cole's song I tried to copy some of his ideas like lyric, song structure, chords and how he wrote his lyrics that fit with the beat of the song. How would try copy these feature J Cole presented is to follow the same why he made his song and sings/rap the same type of genre he sings/raps about. for the chords, I will learn them and then play them in different ways.

Here an example of one of my work.

So Far Presentation

What is my Project?

My project is to come up with four song two original two cover at least if 1 of each

Why I chose to do this?

Reason for this choice is because I don't just want to produce in the music industry. I want to preform also.

  

How I'm Going to go about doing this.

I will need to find a band to help with the song,

My Research.

In my research I've been looking at J Cole and how is lyric and chords work well together.

Reason?

with this song apparently I fount out that with the chords are very simple and repetitive which is a good idea to give more space for the vocals and the other instruments that in the song.

I've also been listening to hip hop song most of them have 808 and samples. I mostly don't use 808 but I've attempted not yet with samples.

 



In the next 4 weeks.

in the next 4 week I will decide what song to preform for the cover and start write lyrics for original I'm probably going to need Luke or Olly's help with that. I will also start gathering people I need in my song.

Contemporary Evaluation.

Overall Progress.

from term 2 I've learnt much  more then i did in term 1. I learnt how people now day make music and how the copy some of it from older artists and changed it in to there own style. I also find my skills to have improve in term 2.

I seem to still struggle in coming up with lyrics for a song and I also struggle on some of the lesson i learnt in theory classes.

I am happy with what i created but i'm also not cause I know i could of done beater

Technical skills.

I'v develop my skill on coming up with different chore progression to put in my music.

In logic i fount a slow down feature that make it sound like when DJ's are scratching on there decks. i love using it in music for when the beat is about the drop and get all heavy it give it a sense of atmosphere.

My skill in logic is improve a lot since the beginning of the year and i'm confident in my ability in logic. Where I probably need help on is EQing my sound so it get a well rounded mix.

In my theory lesson I have some more knowledge as i had in the beginning of the year but i still need to learn a lot more. I tend to struggle when knowing what each Italian word means in music.

Time managing, 

In term one my problem was that i had so many idea the i kept changing my work to many time. What i did differently in term 2 was plan what i was gonna do and stuck by it.

My work was done all on time without any set backs.

I spent my time mostly trying to come up with lyrics for the music with it so i didn't have time to mix it or edit it.

I used the access room to help me give me more time to come up on the lyrics.

I'm not to happy with my music i submitted cause i feel if i finished it it would of been better.  

Research.

Last term i didn't really research much on artistes back then and how the made their music. This term I look up on all type of hip hop artistes from the old ones to the new ones. I needed to research on how artistes now days come up with ideas for the music and how they go about making them.

Most of the research I look up on help me when making my music. for example i  looked up on how J Cole make his music and uses samples. I try doing that (the method on sample was hard) and it really was amazing. In the future when making my music i could use a lot more sampled things and put it in my music.

Group work.

The class playlist i think was better then the last playlist we sent out. reason i think that is cause we had more freedom to do what we wanted to do. I think it was a success just like the last playlist we put out.I think we reached are audience since we still followed our servery's we had before.
In the future we could have more the one song for each of use in the playlist. I think the perfect way to present our music would be the same way we are doing it.
 

class mates songs

with this song I like the vibe it gives off . I love the instrumentation works well with all the h harmonics. I like the way he put this song song together and how it fits so well with the lyrics. I like the instrumentation he put in this song. I like the way he changed up te song from being all chilled to being up beat and something to bump to

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.