-fire. to prevent fire we can keep a fire extinguisher available.

-electrical fire. to prevent an electrical fire we can be sure to not use damaged or old cables and make sure to switch off all unnecessary plugs.

-hearing damage due to loud music. to prevent this we can use ear protection.

-spillage of liquids on electronics. to prevent this we need to make sure to only drink bottled water and if not we need to not leave open drinks near electronics.

-trips hazards (specifically cables). to prevent this we need to coil up any unused cables and watch our step.

-stress of performing.

-pulls and strains from heavy lifting. to prevent this we need to make sure we warm up our muscles/voices before we play.

-dehydradtion. to prevent dehydration we need to bring plenty of bottled water.

-muscle damage (from not warming up)

-lack of sleep

one thing that is going really well is my live performance project. I have a clear plan of what I want to do with a set band and i have a date planned for both rehearsal and recording.

Mission

I am slightly struggling with the case study, I am not naturally very good at written work so it just takes me a long time to make progress.

Improvement

to improve this I am simply going to put more time into it. this will be easier now I have no more lpw classes.

• tempo 81bpm

  
  

• key Bminor

  
  

• time signature 4/4

  
  

• structure verse 1, verse 2, verse 3

  
  

• chords

  C#m7

  Cmaj7

  Gmaj7#11

  Bm7

  G#m7b5

  G#m7

  Gm7

  Gmaj7

  C13

  Bm9

  Cmaj

  the tonality of the song is minor however it does borrow chords from other model scales.

  
  

• rhythmic ideas. straight 16th note pattern on rim of a tom. most of the songs is a simple kick on 1, snare on 3 pattern however towards the end of the song there drummer ads some subtle changes to the groove like changing the the snare to to and of 3 for a bar and also adds some tasteful fills.

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• lyrics

  I got a red room
  It is the red hour when the sun sets in my bedroom
  I got a red room
  It is the red hour when the sun sets in my bedroom
  It feels like I'm inside a flower
  I got a red room
  It is the red hour when the sun sets in my bedroom
  It feels like I'm inside a flower
  It feels like I'm inside my eyelids
  And I don't wanna be
  Anywhere but here
  I don't wanna be
  Anywhere but here

  
  

• reference

  hiatus kaiyote, red room, brainfeeder, Spotify, 2021.

after this I recorded a breakbeat with my friend George who played around with effects. (see the original break in the post below) I put this break beat into the track, chopped it up and quantised it this gave the break a more messy, jungle sound. if I was to do this again I would record the break closer to the right tempo because quantising it put the pitch of the drums a bit too hight and I lost a lot of the boomy drum sound.

next I found the piano tabs and played in the chords. this was because although I wanted to remix the song I wanted to keep some elements the same.

my idea for the song was to have the first half as a more relaxed 2000s jungle track with vocals then have it switch up to a more aggressive Baseline sort of jungle. where I use the vocals as more of an instrument than actual words. to achieve this I cut the word "red" out of one of the vocal tracks, picket it and put on some effects. for the more aggressive sound I had to change from my own break and use the amen break wich I then also chopped up. this was annoying as I wanted to use only my breaks. if I were to do this again I would record a wider selection of breaks using different drums and different levels of dynamics.

next I made the "aggressive" sounding basses. to do this I used vital, the same plugin I was playing with in week 7. although I am mostly happy with the bass sound I think if I had more time I would like to spend a few days experimenting to get them just right.

after structuring the track I went through my files and found some classing jungle sound effects to use throughout. I think this helps the song stay somewhat consistent even though the difference between the two sections is so big.

overall I am happy with this track. I think having such a big switch is interesting and unique. I think I've done a decent job layering vocals to accent certain lyrics and I think most of the ideas are there. the main things I would do differently is; record more breaks at different dynamics and tempos, spend more time on the sound design of my basses and record vocals separately to avoid using a stem splitter.

overall I thought this performance was okay but could have gone better. the main two this I've taken away from this is I need to know the song more to really get that timing perfect and that as a band we should've practiced together more to get better communication.

after the second take I felt warmed up and ready to play a better one but we where then told we didn't have any more time. this really annoyed me because I know I can play much better than that and maybe if id had another 5 minuets to set up or play another take I could have done better.