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Morgan and I booked out the studio to complete our recordings. In this session, we aimed to record all of 'With A Little Help From My Friends'.

We started with setting up the mixing desk and connecting my ukulele. For a while, we couldn't get any sound from the uke into the desk, but I realised that  my battery must have died. Luckily, I had a spare in my case. Once the uke was all set up, we did a test recording to make sure that the sound was coming out of the desk properly.

Next, we set up the microphone. Again, we checked that the recorded sound was coming out of the monitors for playback and layering.

Then we began recording. We started with recording the ukulele accompaniment for us to sing over. When we moved onto recording the first set of vocals, we had to keep adjusting the gain for the mic as it was a lot louder than the ukelele and the vocals were drowning it out.

The verses have a call and response element to them so I sang the first half of the line and then left the second half blank for Morgan to record over. Once both main parts were recorded, we moved on to the harmonies, adding the final layer to the track. This was the last step in recording. We did this last so that we could have multiple tries to get the harmonies right

We recorded the song using several different tracks. We did this because it was easier than trying to multitrack record the ukulele and the vocals at the same. Also, since Morgan was not that familiar with the song, it made more sense to do lots of shorter takes of just a line at a time.

In the end, we had a lot of spare time so we recorded a cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Everywhere'. I sang this one alone, all live so the ukulele and the vocals were recorded at the same time. Then, I went over it one last time to layer in a few harmonies.

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1. What role did you undertake in this session?

2. What did you set out to do in the session?

3. Did you achieve this by the end of the session?

4. If yes, how? If not, what should you change?

5. What technical challenges did you face? How did you overcome them?

6. How did you demonstrate a clear understanding of each of these aspects?

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In today's session, I worked on arranging a song that Morgan and I could record. We decided to record 'With A Little Help From My Friends' by The Beatles. The arrangement included a baritone ukulele and two vocal parts.

Since Morgan was absent this session, I set out to get a full arrangement, recording each part as I went using Garageband on my phone to make sure that all of the harmonies fit nicely together.  I managed to achieve this by the end of the session as I worked on my own, using my own equipment.

I did not use any equipment other than my phone because I only wanted a very rough recording to check that the arrangement worked. I recorded each part individually, and then layered them.