#12

Wadha Al Nabti

Music Production 9 

14th January 2014

Process Journal #12

My aim for this week is to record my synthesized juicy pump bass part into the song. My aim for next week is to complete the song with Reem and upload it into sound cloud. On Sunday we were working on our songs very hard and Mr. Ball taught us how to upload to sound cloud and also taught us how to save our projects on Logic Pro X in a way that it couldn’t get deleted because other group members were having troubles. On Monday we had the test right away and it was quite easy and quick seeing as it was multiple choice, although there were terms I didn’t understand since I didn’t use it ever on Logic X Pro, so I think I flunked my test, but inshallah I didn’t. What didn’t work this lesson was that Reem didn’t upload her piano part, but when I recorded my juicy pump bass and quantisized it to make it fit the tune of the song she made me re-quantisize it because it didn’t fit with the ‘Roots Rock’. This was a problem because first she was bossing me around and I don’t like that and second I told her that I didn’t want the roots rock in this part of the song we were supposed to change all the instruments, which made me really mad because she didn’t listen to me and she never does. I did add a transition from the intro of the song to the mid, which includes the juicy pump bass, drums, and a piano part. The transition is an andre lyrics, which is a man making a weird holy-like sound by his mouth and it’s basically taken from a church choir or something. I believe it’s very great transition because it goes from something holy you hear in a church to something (excuse my French) you hear in a brothel when the dubstep comes in and I want the people who listen to Reems and I’s songs feel a range of emotions. Update: our song is now 1:01:00 long.

Feedback: (on transition, juicy pump bass, and drums)

“It sounds like something you’d hear on the radio” – Habiba

Thank you so much Habiba, insha’allah one day we will hear a song of mine on the radio so I can jam to some good music J.

“I really like it and feel the steady beat of drums is soothing and that the transition is something new” – Ella

Thank you Ella for your time and feedback, I do like the drums and we’d have to thank Reem for that. About the transition it’s a loop, but I couldn’t not put it in the song

The transition: (about 2 seconds long)

Juicy pump bass, drum beat made by Reem, and transition last:

#11

Wadha Al Nabti

Music Production 9 

10th January 2014

Process Journal #11

My aim for this week is to add a part made by myself into the whole song as an outcome, because Reem has been having all the say and doing all the work, which makes me seem weak and mad. I feel like I have no say in anything in the song so if I add my own part in the song I'll finally feel like I belong. My aim for next week is that I complete all my process journals so I can be up to date, seeing as I have been putting everything to the last minute and I am under a lot of pressure and stress. This week I started off being informed that we had a test the next week on the concepts in the Logic Pro x. Mr. Ball told us if we have been working on Logic Pro X it would be very easy with the concepts and it was also a refresh to our memory from our last test so we don't forget the concepts and meanings from specific definitions that we had to study last time. I feel like I failed the test because I hadn't been looking for the meaning behind every aspect in Logic Pro X I just know that this button shape does this action. Also I am glad to see that I have convinced Anoud and Yara to star in our song and sing the lyrics that I wrote. Although getting Anoud wasn't cheap I had to add in the line "money ain't a thing, but a chicken wing" or else she won't agree to be in our song. While Yara was ok with anything and she actually helped me add another verse to my song lyrics so now I have a co-songwriter and a singer as a dear colleague.

Feedback:

“Great, but you should add drums to make the synthesized bass more intriguing” – Anoud (on juicy pump bass that I’m planning to put in the song)

Thank you on your lovely advice Al Anoud and Reem was planning on adding drums already, it’s like you were on the same page there.

“I really like it and think it sound’s quite weird and odd, which is a good thing. You should add more instrument” – Sara

I’ve lately been into odd sounds and instruments since hit songs always have odd synthesizers. Reem will add in the drums and piano as she has already called it.