Post Talk

Whoa. It's all over... I've spent seven weeks working hard on creating an EP and POOF after ten minutes of talking, it's all over. Not entirely, since I'm still writing this blog, but I'm no long presenting and I don't have anything to worry about except not being embarrassed by my own music... -       Four to Five Minutes: More like seven...  -       Visual component o   PPT, Prezi, other? I did use a Prezi that took forever to make. I spent a good...

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Finished. Finally.

I have finally finished editing. In all seriousness though I am so relieved right now. It's not that I didn't enjoy this or that this was extremely tedious, but it was more as of the stress level that recording gave me. Which gave me an opportunity to flex my meditation techniques once again. I used this technique to keep my head from exploding all over the place. Which led me to another thing. Was I really cut out for this? Was this the life...

My Road to Editing.

FINALLY I've finally finished all my recording. Well... most of it. You see, as a musician who's recording, I tend to hold high standards for my work. Which is why during my editing sessions I seemed to enjoy cutting out snippets from my tracks and re-recording. Before I could do any of that, however, I had to first learn what I needed to change and which preset/tool would change what. When a track is recorded it may not sound the way that the...

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Recording Recording Recording

So now I start to get a little more technical. Though I'm not fluent in "recording" language, I still have a lot of jargon up my sleeves. After acquiring the studio set from a good friend of mine, I sat down to do a little bit of research. I spent the next couple of days learning about the correct body posture of when to record, how to set up a microphone correctly, the do's and don'ts of a recording, and what to tweak when editing. When a person...

Chasing Dreams

The musical is over (assuming that you're reading this after 3/9). Although there are serious pangs in my heart after not being able to sing with these cast-mates anymore I'm on the road to immediate improvement. During these past stressful weeks I've done nothing butwrite my music. Along this way I started to discover myself as a musician. Thought's like "Who am I?" and "What is this I've created?" have been raking my brain ever since I started.  Then, a few days ago when I was writing my final song, it became emotional. Overbearingly...

Step 2

I've finished writing my rap songs. Now I have to write my indie pieces... which means literally sitting on a chair with my guitar cranking out chords until something fits together... I guess. The tracklist will go something like this (and this is totally subject to change since I have other songs I can put on the EP) 1.) Breaking Barriers 2.) Consensus Any who. So today after I came home, it struck me weird that I haven't heard myself sing in a long time. If I wanted to record some good sounding tracks, I at least need to sound good at first. So...

The Journey of a Mile Starts With One Foot

I got it guys. GUYS I got it! My first instrumental is found and I'm almost done writing it! I can't really show you what I have so far because... I mean that's spoiling the song. Otherside, by Macklemore originally was a song about getting sober and fighting through the hardships of life (if you want to go listen to it, go, but there's profanity in the original song itself so listener discretion is advised), so I thought it'd fit perfectly into my theme. The instrumental itself is not harsh like a Waka Flocka (-shudder-) song, but instead carries...

The Logistics

I guess I had already forgotten to write about my plan for this EP. To be perfectly honest, I'm probably not going to start the inner depths of my project until after the week of March 6th, since I'll be depriving myself of sleep for the Musical. When I get started I will do the following in order: Find two instrumentals for my raps. Write 2 three section (Verse, Bridge, Chorus) chords for my indie songs. Beg my parents for a recording studio. End up borrowing my friend's recording equipment. Record the four tracks. Edit. Graphic Design the...

Chill Out

People who know me back in the day have told me I "sing way way too much" or I "need to stop singing" because they "need to copy down these science notes" (Like really? Are notes anyway more fun than listening to a wonderful rendition of McHammer's "U Can't Touch This"). I always keep those comments in the back of my mind and never really spent too much time thinking about those words. Until recently that is. I've been getting more and more serious about vocal performance. I've sat down and talked to myself in the mirror (and my sanity...