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So I have decided to do a little video explaining everything in the project that I have changed as my computer hasn’t had any internet for the past couple weeks so I haven’t been able to update my Padlet.

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I have dug some old lyrics out of an old phone and I think I'm going to use them for this track. The lyrics are:

I don't know which gold leaf is my own
Thread the needle and tie the knot, the dot and the single
thread the needle and wrap the knot dot the I and the Double,
Thread the needle and tangle the knot cross the t till it tingles,
Thread the knot and tie the needle dot the t, kill the couple
the puddle stained red, pity pain pity

Self mourning is weakness,
Human life is most brief yet most destructive,
Axe their loved ones to prove you're not fake,
disturbed thoughts are the funnest,

Now deep in my dreams a life of horror night terrors the man in the box
the one who sits at the end of your bed I've just found his head in your hands, your own blood on your hands,  what have you done too much fun, his hers you or it unison pull the curtain show time,

do you feel the pressure the weight the needle don't rush her it helps to feel more, fuck repetition fuck religion, head aches as it holds onto its final thread now the needles in a sea of red.

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The audio file is now too big so I have uploaded it to my soundcloud

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The audio file is now too big so I have uploaded it to my soundcloud

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My Sound cloud: https://soundcloud.com/kai-shaw-3/cherry-demo

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So after adding the rough bass part(i say rough coz i will probably re record it) i have been working on the verse and chorus lyrics and these are all just dry at the moment as ill handle all the effects after im happy with the raw sounds.

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I have added a rough bass line and tried to put it into a tab but I know this isn't going to read the same way I'm playing it im just showing you what notes I'm playing just for some visualisation.
F---------------------------------------
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G5---------5-5-5---5-7-5-45-4-----------
D---------------------------------------5-7-9-5-

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So this is the both the verses and first chorus on guitar.

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so as you can tell this is just the bass drum with my verse guitar part over the top, i tried adding Oscars part but it seemed like it was recorded out of time and it now wasn't in the same key because I've dropped a note however even transposing makes it sound weird and it doesn't change that its out of time. So ill send the project over to him tonight and see if he want to record his part again. So now the next step would be to get chorus and second verse chords down so i can then work on a bassline.

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So this song is fairly quick compared to most of my other music so we are going to keep it on a steady 120 bpm. Because I cant record well to click tracks I usually just make a drum rack with a bass drum on every beat(look below) to give me the steady rhythm. I am now just going to set up my pedal board for the track which is nice because vie already basically got a draft of the song i know what type of style imp going for however I want it to be more gritty throughout and loose some of the lushness another thing to make it sound a bit extra muddy is im going to be playing in a full step down all of my strings and heavier gauge strings too.

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Re Recording/starting from scratch in new DAW

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Re Recording/starting from scratch in new DAW

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So basically this peice that i had recorded before was horribly out of time and didnt really have much direction so today we are re recording and ill still try and use Oscars guitar parts but warp them. So today im just going to be walking you through step by step what my imediate plan is and how it will look ect.

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This week I've managed to get Ableton as I have been using Reaper up until now with lots and lots of latency issues and programming drums has been an absolute palaver but now I'm on Ableton and have been teaching myself through YouTube videos i have come to grips with at least writing a drum loop in and recording to it and everything is in time which doesn't sound hard but considering its taken me till 2 weeks ago to finally fix my latency this feels like a milestone.  I am now working on adding drums to this track "Cherry" however i will probably re record everything and ill take screen shots throughout today of my journey.

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I have added a chorus vocal exploring a different style of vocal for myself a style I have never even attempted before but I quite like it still not 100% and I'm not too sure on second verse yet, plus my DAW knowledge is next to none so its all out of time and I'm really struggling a way to put drums to it. I don't know if ill be able to put drums on this track myself so I may just end up rerecording which is sad because I really like the sound of this recording. Equally i could just not add drums but it feels like there's a big portion of the song missing due to there not being bass or drums on the track. Bass I can sort out as now I'm back in Brighton my house mates have basses.

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So far I have recorded both the verses and choruses on guitar and had my buddy record the other parts too which ill get more info about what chords we have used on a different date. I only have vocals on the first verse so far and ill be recording again from home before I make my way back up to Brighton this Saturday. So this recording is just both the guitar parts for the verse and chorus and the vocals for the first verse. I am going to send the project off to our drummer so he can record over the top soon, also I believe our bassist is going to come over and record with me before I leave home.

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We're facing eclipse, so close you can read my lips
Cherry falls on my skin but I let it burn, Its self inflicted
Gasoline ignites no longer living in the dark
Try to hold on to your spark

I'm left wondering, where am I going?
I just cant stop knowing I'm in my prime

The lyrics I have tried to kind of express how this pandemic is making me feel and how hard it has been for me to think positive after having all our plans were sacked off and the thing that helps me the most (seeing friends) has literally been made illegal. This song is kind of directed at myself to try and reassure myself that things will be okay and I just need to get through this and then everything will be the way they are supposed to be. thinking of lyrics in the future i think i may write something toward the government as us university students have had literally no financial help and have basically just been written off in the eyes of the gov meaning we now haven't experienced uni or literally any of its benefits the real reason why we pay 9000 a year. We have been left to buy our own recording equipment which obviously every musician will need at some point but literally having no other choice than to spend your food and rent money on equipment which would have been provided really bugs me. As you can tell I'm pretty defeatist at the moment when it comes to uni and just what's going on in general so I've just got to try and channel this into something I can express through my music which is what I'm going to be working on this next week.

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So when I came to recording I decided I liked how the guitar part sounded with quite a bit of reverb and a bit of vibrato to bring out the shimmery and I preferred playing it on my Squire Jaguar with the neck pickup as it gives that old tube kind of jagged sound. I know having a really jagged sounds usually doesn't go well with a reverb but I think it sounds good and still delivers the same energy along with making the whole song sound wider and like its being played to an open room.
So we recorded both the guitar parts around my house a few days ago, Oscar brought his guitar amp and pedals and we just miked it up as shown below. with my guitar part in the verse I decided to pay it straight left and Oscars right so you can hear both parts simultaneously without it sounding too messy and without them getting in the way of each other. In regards to what I have added to the guitars I have just put an eq on both of them, because I bought the Neutron Elements there's some really nice pre-sets which add compressors and equalisers so for my track I just have the pre set 'Vintage levelling which is the first image, then for Oscars I used a pre-set called space for vox.  Verse K = Me Verse O = Oscar

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Since being home I have been invited to join a band with some of my good friends back at home called Sundiverr so this song will ultimately be for that project and in the recording which I have been working on one of the guitar parts is recorded by Oscar the front man of Sundiverr however this song stemmed from me so I hope I can still use it in this project.

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I have had a guitar part which I have wanted to write too for a long time which is underneath. During the time I have been writing this song I have been influenced a lot by the likes of Sonic Youth and Dinosaur JR and lyrically Fontains DC, you can see this here with the fast paced down strokes often floating around the 12th fret. Songs with have similarity to this type of guitar playing and style are:

Sonic Youth - Incinerate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP3ovD8ZSS4&ab_channel=SonicYouthVEVO\

Sonic Youth - Pink Steam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFGF638WDAQ&ab_channel=MrBlondie02

Dinosour Jr. - I feel the pain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC9CZyHLn3M&ab_channel=Emmet

As I said before both of these bands have heavily inspired me during the writing of this song as they are some of my favourite bands at the moment.
How I've tried to differ from them is for a start I'm in a half step down as most songs in Sundiverr we play in drop C# so this song will have a different feel to most of our songs anyways. I have recorded this guitar part with a lot of reverb which is something Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr, tend not to do unless it is something that's very drone and music based meaning no vocal. Like in the song Sonic Youth - Pink Steam you can hear that first chord which they play is on a never-ending reverb feedback loop to create another layer underneath the other guitars, which is something I want to have a go on with this new track as I've just got the Walrus Slo which has a latching function meaning it can latch to a chord and create an endless drone of that chord or note.