In my first song, the idea was to create a track that had more of a 90s feel in terms of instrumentation and vocal idea. I wanted to create a song that defined my style and my way of using my voice, in this song there is a mixture between soul and pop music which defines me as an artist as I have developed my vocals and music listening skills to determine my overall sound. The main objective was to figure out what sound I enjoy singing the most and which kind of music I would be able to show what my voice can do in terms of dynamics. What production technique I used in this song was the use of a higher octave effect - pitch changer in the second verse. When adding this affect on the vocal it sounded quite robotic and a natural. However I found it interesting so I added that in the background and I panned it to both sides and all you can hear is rather a low level vocal brightness rather than a loud higher octave phrase. The people I used as an influence in the song range from Stevie Wonder to Charlie Puth and soulful singers from the 90s.
In my second song I decided to make The final project A lot more modern, I done this by researching a lot more Artist that I am influenced by such as Michael Jackson, Charlie Puth and Stevie Wonder. I used the baseline as the main instrument to guide me through the song and which many artists that I am influenced by such as Michael Jackson, Charlie Puth and Stevie Wonder have used this technique which benefited their songwriting greatly. . I used the baseline as the main instrument to guide me through the song and I wrote this song in that particular way as the use of the bass is what makes my songwriting come along at a much quicker flow and creative flow. I think this is purely because
my style is more to do with Soul and pop funk music so I become a lot more interested when it comes to songwriting. I used vocal layering as a technique to make the vocal sound much fuller and richer, this was used in the pre-chorus and the chorus. When it came to writing the song it was more about improvising and using my emotions in that particular moment to make the song come across more natural rather than have a structured way of singing and not as dynamic or natural.
Week 1 - 17th January
During this last week I have created an up tempo soul/pop song. During the last year I was able to identify myself as an artist purely by the music I am influenced by and music that improves my music ability in terms of vocals and production techniques. I have also researched different pop-soul artists such as Charlie Puth and the way he uses melodic changes and vocal harmony to create a certain feel and layering to create a significant and specific sound. Both of the songs I am going to finish for my portfolio will both be songs that I would portray as songs that I love to make and that I will want to release as they are songs that stand out for me.
One thing that went wrong for me was that at first I found it quite hard to create a baseline myself that had the exact note changes and that I wanted to create and the sound of the different bass' on logic weren't exactly the ones that I wanted to use as they aren't natural sounding basses and from there I decided to find a drum pattern that made the song stand out, since the song is soul-influenced I decided to use shakers and claps as snares to mix both real life sounds and logic sounds.
Week 2 - 24th January
In the past week I have been able to research the way vocals on a song is performed. One of the artists that I love is Michael Jackson and the way hr uses his lyrics in first person to create a scene or a story. This, in my opinion is a very interesting way to write lyrics as the listener will feels as they are being taken on a journey and feel part of the song. In the song "Place With No Name" he uses this way of writing which I manage to take inspiration from and used it in my original song. During this process of making music, I also done research on MJ's music to see what techniques he used in relation to vocal harmony
Week 3 - 31st January
In the past week, I managed to finish my first song and I started developing a new song whilst mixing my first song. I done this as the process of mixing is quiet difficult especially for me as I am at a place where I am still trying to develop my ears in terms of mixing and finalising my songs. Also, this week I done more research in 90's/00's soulful pop music to get more inspiration and to listen to vocal details as when I listen to music I'll eventually pick up vocal techniques naturally and I looked and listened to different artists such as: Prince, Stevie Wonder and Justin Timberlake.
Wee 4 - 7th January
In this week, I done a performance in college which was our end of term performance featuring other artists from my class and when performed different genres such as: Blues, Psychedelic soul, Shoe gaze, Prog Rock, Hip Hop and Disco. The performance went really well as we performed the songs to our higher standard and the audience really enjoyed our work, however, one thing that could've went better is that we made some mistakes in terms of timing as some times some instruments went out of tempo but we manage to always bring everything back in time. I didn't manage to do much original music this week which is usually something that is unusual for me as I usually work on my original music every week but this week i had the performance to rehearse.
Analysing other people's songs
Kai
I love the way the song is structured in terms of how the song builds up. My favourite thing about this track is how he uses the panning tool to make the song sound interesting and to create space and ambience in the song and the balance between the instruments are very smooth.
Hold My Heart - Lila
One of my favourite things in this song is the change of tone and vocal dynamics. By this I mean how when she sings their is a change in tone such as smoothness and then their is a more harsh tone which is a great use of dynamics. Also, the song being created with real instrument is something that makes it much more interesting for me personally because I am a big fan of live performance songs as I listen to 80's/90's music that have that element of pure live instrumentation.
Omega
Omega's song reminds me of latin music because of the common use of the string chord progression which I am a big fan of. Also, I really like how the song changes in relation to tempo, the song stats off slow but then changes to a quicker tempo and the mood of the song changes to a happier and more cheerful emotion.
Minjoo
My favourite thing about this song is the natural sound of the piano or the "raw" sound of the piano because I like the cleanness of it. However, I think it would be even more beneficial if the song had more dynamics in terms of having more than just the same melody playing throughout the song, something like a key change would be interesting to hear.
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