#19

Wadha Al Nabti
Music Production 9
20th April 2014

Process Journal #19 

My aim for this week is to add strings to the melody. My aim for next week is to have my intro at least 30 seconds with a variety of instruments that creates a very harmonic sound that makes the listener keep on listening. This week we were instructed to continue on with our work as we have to finish the song before school ends so we better get working. I continued working on my song, specifically the intro as I felt I needed to add more to it to hook the listener, I just love to go out of my way to go overboard and make things more beautiful than they are. I believed that the Low Down Dub at the time wouldn't be my melody because it was a synth and I didn't want to go down the Electro path. My melody consisted of three chords, which I shouldn't mention as non of them were in the c major scale leading to an off scale bit in my song. My new "melody" only helped mebody (<- see what I did there) to shut down as it couldn't continue listening to my song, yes it was that bad! The second lesson Mr. Alcodray was invited to our class to show us how to work a vocorecorder. After he left he left with instructions on how to use the vocorecorder incase we would forget. In that same lesson I attempted to use the vocorecorder with the lyrics of stronger by Daft Punk, it made the song horrid, but I think if I went a little more electro the vocorecorder would be perfect with it. Maybe I shouldn't judge the vocorecorder so fast as I haven't tried all the types of sounds allowed to be recorded through, after that I will judge the vocorecorder as a whole. For now I should focus more on autotune as I can't hit the low keys, which is what I want for my song and as I've said before a song without lyrics isn't the best it can be. JUST TO BE CLEAR I DELETED THE MELODY THAT WAS SO HORRID THAT MY EARS BLED.  

Feedback:

"The second melody is not needed because it doesn't fit with the genre" Shahad

I can finally see the light and I agree with you Shahad. The second melody was just experimenting, because experiments lead to conclusions and statements instead of hypothesises.

"The piano part is off tune" Darwin

I agree Darwin, the second melody wasn't connecting to my key (C Major)

"You should think about sticking to the synth" Sara

Thank you Sara, but thats my choice. I was going to stick with the synth after I heard my piano skills anyways.

Picture of Mr. Ball helping me with LOGIC!: