{"id":242,"date":"2021-12-10T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2022-07-20T11:40:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T10:40:44","slug":"electronic-composition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/electronic-composition\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Composition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The D by Harry Wilkinson by Leoni Conway\" width=\"840\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1177788418&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=840&#038;secret_token=s-wyaYN9oc7KE\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The D Remastered by Harry Wilkinson by Leoni Conway\" width=\"840\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1192106839&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=840&#038;secret_token=s-oUGSpbQaRK0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What was successful?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought it was very good it had great dynamics and great instrumentation chemistry. It has a great structure that was organised. As well as it having guitar solos instead of singing for the melody and overall I thought the whole track was very good to say it was my 1st time using Ableton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was unsuccessful?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought that I could&#8217;ve played some instruments a bit tighter and more perfect but that was hard due to the time and I thought 3 notes in the solo didn&#8217;t quite work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What could I improve?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could improve by doing parts in one or 2 takes and redo the solo so its perfect which I did in the remastered version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"122\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.18-1024x122.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.18-1024x122.png 1024w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.18-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.18-768x92.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.18-1536x184.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.18-2048x245.png 2048w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.18-1200x144.png 1200w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.18-1980x237.png 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I first started out with a chord progression which ends up being the main chord progression for the verses and choruses which is Bm-F*m-G-D and used a clean guitar tone for the Intro, Verses, Build ups and the Bridge and some clean delay for the Intro and Bridge. I did record all the clean guitar again so I could make it tighter and the mic gain was too high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.31-1024x120.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.31-1024x120.png 1024w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.31-300x35.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.31-768x90.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.31-1536x180.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.31-2048x240.png 2048w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.31-1200x141.png 1200w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.31-1980x232.png 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I used distortion for the chorus and the build up and the guitar solos were my main melodies for the choruses. I wrote 3 different solos for the choruses which contained harmonise, octaves,  dissonance, tapping, hammer ons and pull offs. I did record all the solos again so I could get them as tight as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.40-1024x40.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.40-1024x40.png 1024w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.40-300x12.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.40-768x30.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.18.40-1536x60.png 1536w, 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62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally I wrote and recorded my drums last because I wasn&#8217;t very used to the Ableton pad and when I didn&#8217;t have drums I used a metronome to keep me in time.When I wrote the drum parts I didn&#8217;t want them just keep me in time, I wanted them to have a part in the song like in the bridge I wrote a Travis Barker influent beat which stood out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.19.04-1024x528.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10648981\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/320\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-14.19.04-1024x528.png 1024w, 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