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Mixed Storytime. recorded vocals for Rise From The Ashes.

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Decided to use Storytime instead of Amaranth.

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With the use of sends and parallel processing i am experimenting with reverb and distortion to begin to bring the track to life a bit. Attached is today's work - there is a way to go but it is heading in the right direction.

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1. Create a post that explores and acknowledges what part genre plays within your track choices for this module.

Solidly within the confines of symphonic metal, but both tracks actually diverging from some of the defining characteristics - Amaranth because of it's poppy feel, and Rise From The Ashes has, for example, no guitars. I compare the latter in feel, to me, with 'Towards The End' by Within Temptation - a track by one of the key genre defining/leading bands in symphonic metal which has an almost 'introductory' feel, as if one is being eased into the main body of the album/show by this fantasy-feeling, slower, more subdued performance. Amaranth is symphonic metal basically by virtue of being by a symphonic metal band (Nightwish, one of the other genre defining/leading ones), although despite the guitar styles etc it is very poppy in drive and vocal tone.

1. Where and when does your genre date back to?

I straddle power metal and symphonic metal, both of which emerged from heavy metal, the former with the influence of symphonic rock, gothic rock and metal; and the latter with the influence of speed metal (which i have not heard of before).

https://musicmap.info

https://www.concerthotels.com/100-years-of-rock/

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Song by Nightwish. Track lowered to my range. Unmixed vocal recorded at Small Pond.

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Recorded rough demos for a few tracks which are possibilities for my second submission, which I include below. (files since inadvertently deleted)

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See below for picture of a productive, hah, production lesson where i learned valuable skills on parallel processing which are very useful for my biggest concern which is editing vocals.

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1. Discuss your views and approach to QUALITY vs QUANTITY and how you are going to take these into consideration when going through the process of creating your tracks for this module.
Quality - how good something is.                    Quantity - how much of something there is. This is not a dichotomy that makes sense to me in the context of creating these tracks - I intend on creating the two tracks at as high a quality as I am capable of creating.

However if I examine them on their own merits, I will approach the idea of quality as specific to this project by being aware of my limitations and not overreaching them, and not confusing 'achievable quality' with 'perfection', which is unattainable and does not exist.

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I decline to set out a practice routine - it will make me substantially less likely to practice if i formalise it. See the weekly discussion column.

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Specific to last term assessment feedback and moving forward with this module.

STRENGTHS

vocal performance - technique, flexibility,

WEAKNESSES

production - vocals a bit louder than ideal, then whole volume dipped robbing the track of some of its momentum

OPPORTUNITIES

Have equipment etc at home

Tales from a lost land - project I've been engaged for by composer, from social media

THREATS

Poor time management, mental health stuff, self discipline and difficulties thereof.

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Inspired by the title of the sample pack i wrote these lyrics and decided i couldn't really improve on the melody given in the sample vocal. Although the kits are not neccesarily intended to be used all together in the sections they are sold in, i was taken with the entire example track given and decided the best thing i could do would be to extend it into a full track. So far for the demo version i have not raised the pitch to suit the higher areas of my voice, deciding instead to stay in the lower part; this is because a) it is what i am less familiar with so is helpful to do, and b) i feel that it suits the ambience of the track better than raising the pitch of all the samples and the vocal line.

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Arranging samples into full song - garageband screenshot

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Arranging samples into full song - garageband screenshot

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Kit 19 Rise From The Ashes Full Mix - Cm 60Bpm

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3 points I want to improve on for this assignment - mixing, further vocal development, better documentation of my process.

Success in this module means to me a grade of at least 60%, building on my barely-scraped pass of 48% last term. This will involve greater effort on my part to document throughout the term.

"smart targets"

Me to Everyone (3:00 pm)
Academic - get a better grade by putting more work in throughout the term
Musical - improve on mixing for the final submissions.
Me to Everyone (3:00 pm)
Professional - have one song released.

Options for track 2 - cover song for example Nightwish's Amaranth, for which i have raw vocal stems, recording footage, and a backing track. This track will probably be a filmed sing-though like Elan from last term.

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Been working on Rise From The Ashes comprised entirely of samples from Shymer with my vocal line composed over the top of it. This will be one of my tracks.

Work undertaken was extensive wrangling of samples. I was inspired by the example track that came with the Shymer sound back i got in december - I have taken the individual sounds it is comprised of and extended it to a full song, adding my own lyrics to the melody sung by the sample vocalist. This example track is below.