My first week back i have finished my original songs they just need improvement i want them to be perfect. Nic said i should try singing the chorus a little bit different to make the song more catchy because it can become boring.So i want to work on that next week.I also started doing some research which i need to add more detail into and find more information I have started looking at Taylor Swift and tried to look into her life before fame too but also how being popular changed her and what impact fame has on her. I found out that she struggles with many things like eating disorder. I will carry on with my research and rehearse next week.
Nic and I have started to work on a new song that I wrote and created a melody and a chord progression for it we also changed up some parts in my song and had a chance to work on one verse and a chorus. I have carried on and done some research on Taylor Swift and her song Style. I found it quite challenging to change bits up and sing it totally different also changing up the lyrics was quite hard to do but at the end we managed to sort it out the only thing we have left to do is to decide on the structure and the dynamics of the song. We will try to do that next week and also start practising a new song i wrote .
I had to change 2 of my songs completely which was quite challenging. However, i’m still working on them. I don’t rehearse with Nic as much because he doesn’t have a lot of time so this makes it quite difficult but i’m managing to rehearse on my own the songs i can play because I don’t have a lot of time to rehearse it’s quite hard for me to carry on my own as i need Nic to play. However, I’m managing to rehearse on my own and I started to write my originals down on digital space and also uploading my rehearsals. Next week I want to practise as much as I can to get my songs done and ready for the recording.
We started working on my Slovakian song which turned out pretty good we changed some of the structure and lyrics around and all we have left to do is to practise and work on the structure a tiny bit more. For my research I have one more singer left to do and I’m fully done with my research. I want to add more detail to my research and really finish my songs now. All there’s left to do is some tiny bits for improvements.
This week we started rehearsing all of my songs to see what needs to be improved. We also worked on my last song called ‘Without You’ which was probably the easiest song to rehearse as there didn’t have to be any changes just some work on the dynamics and that was it. The other 3 songs are almost done just need few improvements and next week they will be ready to record. I haven’t worked on my research as much as I’m concentrating more on my songs because I have only few days left before the recording so I want them to be perfect. I will focus more on my research after the recording. I also have to think of the names for the songs. For next week I want all my songs to be ready for the recording and also to have names for all 3.
This week I finally recorded 4 of my originals named ‘Without You’, Mine , Never Again and No More Sad Times. I have also recorded a song that I worked on with Nic for the ETF which I must admit on the day when we recorded these songs we had to take several takes of this song because I couldn’t get the timing right but at the end I did. There were some words I struggled with but I tried my best to sing it right. On the other hand, for my original songs we had to make slight change for the song ‘Mine’ I decided to sing it in a lower key as this song is very difficult to sing. Overall, this week went great I recorded my songs and I’m happy with them the only thing left for me to do is to film the videos and work on digital space.
I finally filmed the videos for my songs