What I stated in this video is that I wanted to cover at least one song within my capabilities on bass, guitar and drums. While I was adamant against covering vocals at first, I have since come round and considered doing them just to push myself.
Feedback response:
I should consider what makes me afraid of doing vocals and question how I could overcome this fear, or whether or not it’s important to me that I do overcome it. I think the only way I would realistically overcome this fear would just be to go for it and stick with it, not delete it and show it to people. I know that it won’t be terrible, so I shouldn’t be ashamed of it.
The idea of a video accompanying the project would be quite nice for documentation and would definitely make me feel proud to be able to show someone that I did this through recording me doing it. Plus, if I do ever choose to publicise it on Youtube, it will be in a format that is appealing and that fits in with what other people are doing on YouTube in regards to the same kind of thing.
General notes:
I’m thinking about doing this as I’m wanting to develop my overall instrumental skills, recording skills, learn more about mixing and make something I’m proud of. In addition to this, depending on what progress I make by April, I can use my work as part of my portfolio for my application to Leeds Conservatoire. I will be needing studio time for my portfolio regardless, so working on a similar thing might be ideal. One risk that comes with this is being burnt-out, but everything combined will give me plenty of recording experience as I need to record at least two original songs on top of a cover for my final project.
I think my time management will not be a problem as I have given myself a project that allows some wiggle room and I will not be stressing over deadlines every week as long as I keep on top of what needs to be recorded. In truth, if I find the time I may cover both songs that I mentioned as long as I am completely happy with the first song.
OTHER IDEAS:
Event management. I would be looking at doing all of the promotion work that I was working on in our first L3X project, as well as managing tickets, the setlist and running order, setting the stage up, finding people to take the role of a sound engineer and lighting technician. I would want to do this because it’s something I enjoyed and I think I would be dedicated to it as I was really interested in it last time and spent a lot of my free time making sure the art for it was good enough. In comparison to the year previous, I know by looking at account analytics that I brought in more attention across social media, most notably instagram, and I think more tickets were sold overall this year too. I would most likely be looking at doing a performance at the showcase too as most of my work will be really spaced out and I would need something to fill the space, even if this means I’m not playing challenging parts or I’m just going along with what another band is doing.
Recording Engineer. This idea is mostly something I want to do prior to university because this is what I want to be focusing on if I’m accepted into a production course. The end goal is being a studio manager, so I need all of the experience I can get. The problem with this is the timing of who is recording when, relying on bands or individuals to show up on time and have a clear idea of what they want and them having a realistic timeline for when things should be recorded.
Live performance was another option, but it would be my last choice out of all of them due to not knowing who I would be working with provided I could find anyone, since I don’t want to be doing a solo performance.