At the start of the second week, I started on my practical work but because I work on music in my space-time I had a lot of demos to look through to see if I wanted to use or take inspiration from them so looking through the demos there was one I found and liked to use for a started.
DAILY EVALUATION
Monday – Finish some research pointes and get started on the instrumentation for the track at least get a chord progression and a draft os a bass line and drum loop and use some of the research I mentioned on my proposal.
Wednesday – push to make the song get to at the very least the start of the verse but push for the bridge this is very optimistic but I think it may be do able.
Working with lewis on Mondays help review my work and finding what I would like to make helps and his talks about production help me understand both songwriting and production.
Using my research at this stage wouldn’t help but to know them at this stage helps prepare me for when I do get to mixing my final product.
JOURNAL
After finishing my research I had a hard time making songs in the style I wanted so on Monday in my production lesson me and Lewis looked through my past work to show that I can make that style of music already so changing was an obvious decision, a lot of the songs didn’t fit the style I was after and most wasn’t even ones I liked.
After the talk on Monday I had a block so when I was off on Tuesday I opened an empty project on Garage band and come up with something and flow with it and ended up making something I want to evolve more of and possible make it my second song.
Back in on Wednesday I had to work on my first song to make a chord progression but had trouble with finding something new so it was an uneventful day I had tried to adapt what I had made the day before but nothing helped I even staying behind wait for something didn’t help.
Then on Thursday I was off sick but I still tried to find research I could apply to my work, but all the research I find seem to be the same thing or production techniques that wont apply with pop songs.
The second week had a lot of set backs but also in the early stages of the week I did a lot of work that helped then it did on Wednesday or Thursday, what looked like I did no work. I did a lot of work In terms of songwriting and research on my sick day. I have a lot of hope fo the song I made on Tuesday.