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Week one I started by researching recording techniques, I went on to look into ways of writing songs so I could add more interesting things into my songs for EP.

this video talks about various things I thought would be useful in my songs. Passing chords, chord extensions and picking v's strumming were all ideas that I thought I could start to incorporate.

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7 ways to make better chord progressions!

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here's a video recorded of the first rough version of one of my songs

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after researching in week one I started to write the songs I was going to record for the EP , I then took the things I've researched and started to add them to my songwritting

things like: adding breakdowns into songs and learning to add breaks and stops

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Please see the attachment for the complete guidance document we have made up for you. It may be helpful to print this out or download it.

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Based on this research, The song Rock n Roll Star by Oasis, has a clear example of how I wanted to use more interesting chords. The use of the A (bvII) is a great way to add tension and release to the tonic key.

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after I had the first song laid down I added some basic percussion and some basic bass lines down. I then added some melodic acoustic guitar over the top and some base vocals. after this had been done I then added some eclectic guitar and added final guitar tracks

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after writing two of the three songs I will be using for my E.P. I booked a recording booth and laid down some acoustic guitar so I had something to work off

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when I went back to song 1 (keeping Alive) I rerecorded the bass and added the final guitar solo

. I added the final percussion to the song and moved on to recording the second songs vocal track

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I took a lot of interest in noel Gallaghers song writing along with Johnny Marr and tried to research how they wrote music and lyrics

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The Surprising Truth about NOEL GALLAGHER's Songwriting Process!

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after a few days of researching my inspirations I moved onto how to double track my vocals as shown in the video above

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Vocal Doubles: My Top 4 Techniques (LANY, Bon Iver, The 1975)

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after laying down all tracks I then went in and started to mix these songs

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linked underneath is my proposal for my final project

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after I had all the tracks recorded I moved onto mixing and mastering these tracks as to have a polished final project

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shown above is all my tracks including my double tracked vocals

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the reasearch I did for my final project was looking into various ways of songwriting and I also looked into various different songwriters ways of writing

I also researched many different ways of recording to add more to the final result

this helped me because I was able to write more interesting songs by adding the things I had seen in my research such as:

building up the track

adding double tracked vocals

and learning various recording techniques like how to add EQ

The resources I used for this were:

YouTube

google

speaking to lecturers for advice

these all were very useful as it gave me a broader understanding of what I had to do

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through out this project my skills have really improved I have learned more skills within my songwriting like being able to understand how to map a song out and add more interesting features

I have also greatly improved my skills within logic and recording by learning hoot double track and learning how to mix the tracks in to a better sounding project

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I had to change a few things in my approach to my final project such as:

rewriting parts of songs

adapting to the midi drums logic

and rerecording parts and tracks that did quite work

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I am massively proud of the work I have produced as I for the most part have done it myself when it came to the writing and the recording of these tracks I have written.

I love songwriting and its a passion for me but to see that my songs have improved as the project moved forward is a proud accomplishment for me

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the performance of others made me slightly nervous as a lot of people seemed to be going full steam ahead and making great progress. Things like that made me slightly worried mine wouldn't be done in time or even sound as good but I believe in the end I have managed to produce a good final project