Process Journal Music Production: #15

Wadha Al Nabti
Music Production 9
2nd March 2014

Process Journal #15

My aim for this week is to sit through Mr. Ball's boring lectures quietly and attentively. Thankfully we weren't given any lectures instead he told us we can work in pairs or individually to make a song. He explained briefly to us about song writing and that our next assessment would be on songwriting. After explaining I chose Anoud to be my partner and we were given a paper to fill in about how our song will be for instance we had to tell him the genre, bpm, chorus, if there were to be lyrics or not, etc. In that same lesson Anoud and I created a bass and a catchy piano part. The next lesson we went to the studio to work on writing music. Successfully we wrote about 5 lines of our song, which isn't bad for beginners. The theme of the song was transitioning between the darkness of life into the guiding light of life. What didn't work this lesson was that we couldn't match up the piano part with the guitar part on LOGIC X PRO so we had to quantisize it, which also failed. This took up most of the first lesson. My aim for next lesson is to have at least 12 lines for the song and maximum of 16 lines. The song should also include three verses, intro, chorus, hook, and a outro.

Feedback:

"The two different instruments don't level up with the beat" (talking about the piano and guitar part) MAHA

I agree with you Maha, but practice makes perfect you can't make a perfect song on your first try :).

"Very catchy tune" TAJI

Thank You Mohammed for your kind comments and it's great that our tune is catchy because thats what sticks in your head.

"Add in drums" Ella

Just give it time Ella and things will be, but seriously we didn't have drums because we didn't have enough time to think about drums when we were thinking about quantisizing and writing lyrics.