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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UspyaeN8-IXIR5YddOPzxtNvZlRgHdBCm-UzXWMpbLE/edit?usp=sharing

This is the bibliography for all the links to the videos I have referenced and used to improve and develop my playing.

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This is my weekly practice I made to outline what I am going to practice each day of the week to help me develop as a musician. This will help me keep up with my smart target of keeping up to date with work and staying up to date in order to keep to deadlines and not get too stressed.

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The link above is a summery of what's going on overall in the track and they key features and inspiration that I had when I was making the track. This Padlet is me recording what I did and what techniques I used when mixing and producing the track.

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This week I wanted to pick out and consider some songs for both recorded and my live performance tracks I'm considering doing originals but I wanted to make a playlist on Spotify with 5 cover tracks which would both work well for my recorded and performance version and here's a link to it

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/42uncM8i7gP9dAZ0tH37Kn?si=i194g7PiSdiK5wXR0ue4XA&pi=v9BFQdqpRLa6J

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This week I decided on the song I want to do for my recorded version it's called "Lily Of The Valley" and it's an original in the style of slightly softer rock in the style of bands such as Julie or Radio head. The video is of my band practicing it on small pond. I want consider what production techniques I will use to make the track unique and interesting from a production stand point.

I'm still considering what track to do for my performance track but now I picked a recorded I feel like it is easier to pick out a song as I know what techniques to contrast with the recorded track.

This song helps me keep to my smart target because the song helps me work on my smart target of developing my dynamic capabilities as the song uses a wide range of dynamics. The song also has a big focus on "Moeller technique".

The 2 videos I linked are videos that helped me develop both my "Moeller technique" and playing more dynamically.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yKTjYFrjYw. (Tim Buell, 2018)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MQnuDmNT2k.  (Youtube, 2017)

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This week I picked out the performance that I want to do for my performance. For the creative performance lesson our song was "Chain Of Fools" by Aretha Franklin. For the song my band decided to do a completely different cover in our own style and make a version doing everything Aretha Franklin wouldn't do. I think the main thing that we changed is the changing time signatures and the breakdown at the end, but I ended up really liking the arrangement of the song and I think I'd like to make it into an original changing the lyrics and adding a double pedal part to keep to my smart target for this term.

The video I linked at the top is me practicing the arrangement with the double pedal part I wrote for this track.

This track helps develop my smart target of developing my double pedal the link to video at the bottom is a video I used to help me develop and improve my technique. I also liked a video that helped me improve on my ability to play in odd time signatures.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VIlNv2P2ms. (Youtube, 2022)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4sUzI83mEA. (Jay Fenichel, 2020)

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This week I started on the DAW version of my track "Lily Of The Valley" for this I asked my band help me record basic parts for the song as a guide track, I then booked a studio session at Small pond to record drums.

The video linked at the top of the page is of me playing the end of the song. I then comped the best takes together and EQ'd the drums so it's all done and out the ways so I have it ready to hand in for the formative deadline.

I feel like this was really good experience for me because I would like to be more well versed in recording and mixing drums and getting use to playing in the studio.

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This week I wanted to get a proper of my performance song I feel like this was a pretty good take so I am probably going t hand it in for my formative but there's defiantly some things I can work on to improve moving forward past the formative deadline. I think I want to defiantly work on the fill going into the break down and improve on my double pedal ability for the breakdown as well.

The video is of me rehearsing in small pond I think for the actual performance for the summative hand in I would ideally like to do it on stage for the summative hand in.

Also for the summative hand in I would also like write new lyrics for the song so it's a fully original song.

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This is my unfinished track of the song "Lily of the valley" which is the original I am recording using logic. This is the unfinished version to hand in for my formative assignment as it needs some work and editing before i am happy handing it in for my summative assignment.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mzjux2Hk9ePOAn5tyF60QS64SGm09LJd0La39hmxEGs/edit?usp=sharing

In this week after the break I really focused on getting some of my recording done for the DAW track linked is above is a google docs that explains some of the techniques that I've used to get to the recording.

This isn't the final product and I feel the track needs a lot of work but I believe that it's a good start and ready to hand in to receive feedback for the formative assignment.

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The video at the top is me playing to one of my band original songs (Towards The Sun), I believe that this song is a good track to practice and improve upon my smart targets as it has a really broad dynamics and many different quite and loud parts throughout the song.

Also this week I continued to practice and improve on my double pedal technique and and also work on my tracks for both performance and recorded DAW.

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This week I was doing some more work on my smart targets and working on my double pedal work (which is the video linked above). I feel like i am defiantly improving and I'm starting to add various aspects of limb independence such playing the ride bell as seen in the video linked.

The double pedal part I wrote for my performance track isn't too hard however double pedal is something I want to keep working on and improve it in my playing as lends it's self to the style of music I like/ want to play, also I feel like it's a great way to build up more limb independence especially in my left foot which is something I don't feel too strongly on at this point in time.

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This week my band booked out a performance slot at the venue as we did not have our regular creative performance workshop lesson this week.

I was pretty happy with the video overall especially the in the intro as we only came up with that as a added performance element the day before. However there were a couple of elements of this piece I wasn't too happy with, these being:

I feel like I rushed the fill into the ending section and messed up the double kick pattern making it sound a bit messy, before next week when i do my slot at the venue again I will try and get these aspects as tight as possible in order to make the track sound as good as it possibly can.

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This is my final practice before my recorded performance of my piece, we have played it so many times to the point where I feel really confident I feel like I really want to consider how I am going to perform the track before the performance. I want to bring as much energy as I can and also not mess up on any of the more complicated parts.

I feel really happy with the rehearsal video that Is linked above and there is not too much that I could improve on. the only thing is the drum break in the beginning I would like to make it feel more cohesive and maybe before the performance write out some more solid ideas that I could integrate into it to make it sound as good as it possibly can.

(side note hopefully our guitarist will not be nocking any cymbals over on the actual day of the performance).

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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Q7csRd5DfMLWTULB_WYM4RO0MxEY9P1L?usp=sharing

The folder linked here is a link to my to my recorded track I made using a DAW, on the file in google drive you will find the track itself and a document which is me writing about the process of creation and what I did to get to the final piece such as the recorded elements and what production techniques I used to attempt to get the best sounding outcome out of the track.

I believe I am fairly happy with the outcome and I have developed a successful track but there are certain aspects that I could of improved if I had more time such as making the guitars more even on both ears and maybe making them a bit less prominent as it feel a bit one sided to an extent especially in the beginning of the track.

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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gvsLSRFH4MG_ES9VEiCUlDVjO0z64UPY?usp=sharing

The google drive folder linked above is the 3 performance takes I got of my live performance track, I believe there are positives and negatives to all of them but overall I chose take 2 of my live performance takes.

I chose this one because it was my favorite and I felt it was the cleanest take out of the 3 that I managed to capture I think a lot of the key parts were quite clean and I'm fairly happy with the outcome of the performance as I feel like it demonstrates good energy levels and high technical proficiency, however if I was to go back and improve it I feel like the ending felt slightly sloppy and I could of gotten it slightly tighter for an overall better outcome of the track.

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This is the general mix for my recorded track. From this we can see the different channels for drums in red, both of the guitars in yellow for lead and orange for rhythm,  bass in blue, vocals and the vocal harmonies and layers in purple and pink.

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This is the more detailed version of the general mix where you can see more of the individual tracks that make up my overall mix. I wanted there to be a big focus on the guitars in this piece so there is a lot going on with the guitars which I will mention in a later post.

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This is the mix I made for the drums I did most of the work on the kick to make it sound punchy and also brought it up in the mix using bus sends which I will talk about in a later post. The photo here shows some of the EQ techniques I used to boost some of the aspects of the kit. I also panned the toms to be similar to areal kit.

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This is the mix for the lead guitars, in this mix I used double tracking and hard panning left and right to achieve a fuller sound I also used some panning to adjust aspects to try and make them sound more appealing and EQ to bring certain levels up and cut out nasty overtones. I also used some pedals and amp settings in logic in order to achieve a tone for the guitars that I was happy with.

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This is the mix for the rhythm guitars there is defiantly less going on but I boosted the highs and cut out the lows in the EQ similar to the lead parts I also used amps and pedal setting to achieve the slightly crunchy bright tone I was looking for.

I also didn't do too bass track just added some amp to enhance the tone in order to make it sound more full.

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This is the mix for the vocal harmonies and additions, for this after I got the levels right I sent them all to a bus send which I will talk about in a later post. I also hard panned all of them left and right to make them sound fuller in the overall mix.

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This is the overall bus send channels and mastering channels, aux 3 and 4 are empty but there is 3 sets of vocals and a drum bus which I will talk about individually in their separate posts.

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Here is some work I did to the kick drum and snare to make them try and sound more punchy and cut through the mix better. The EQ is to boost the attack of the kick drum and the compressor is to make the snare more punchy and cut better especially in the section where I use cross stick in the track.

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This is the settings I used for the guitars, these specific ones were for the rhythm guitar but I pretty much copied the EQ to some of the lead guitar parts because I was happy with them but I added the pedal and amp settings to the rhythm guitar to add a slight crunch to the tone which is what I wanted from the instrument.

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This is the settings I used for the for the bus send. I used a slight bit of EQ in the top end to boost the cymbals and snare and added a limiter to everything to draw out a more punchy tone from the kit.

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This was the the bus send settings for the vocals more specifically the reverb bus but I did a very similar EQ setting to the rest of the vocal tracks to boost the mids as much as possible to sit at the front of the mix I also added to most reverb to the lead vocal to add character but I added a bit to all of the takes using bus sends to try and get it to sound "floatier" and more atmospheric.

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This is the final aspect of the mix I worked on and it's some of the mastering settings I used. overall I brought down the mid EQ of the whole track slightly because I thought it could do with just a tiny bit less and I just tweaked some of the dynamics slightly of the track to make it less "gainy".