March 2024
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This weekend wasn’t a very production heavy weekend because it was Easter Weekend! I had several events this weekend, including a Good Friday service as well as an Easter Sunday service. The Good Friday service featured some activities such as opening with musical worship, followed by a message from the director, as well as origami!…
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Today, I had some final preparations to do for my capstone recording project tracking that was going to take place tomorrow. I needed to program a rough percussion track that Tudor and the band could play along to. For this, I decided to go into Logic’s drummer and created a demo percussion part. I used…
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Today, I didn’t get a chance to produce, however, I had a very informative meeting with my friend Dani. Dani is the bass player for Mountain Springs church, and he is also a graphic designer for his company: Accent Co. The goal for the meeting was to discuss ways that I could improve processes for…
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Today, I picked up where I left off yesterday with my capstone project. There was a tight deadline to get these edits done, as my recording session at the school was scheduled for Thursday. I began by building the arrangement a bit, as the synths were all added on top of one chorus. I wanted…
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After yesterday’s catchup day, it was time to begin pre-production for my advanced production capstone project. As mentioned yesterday, I am doing an arrangement of Lean on Me by Bill Withers in a modern R&B style. I began by playing Brandon the guitar part I recorded with Kennedy a few weeks back. Brandon made a…
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This weekend, my friend Brandon came over to help me work on some pre-production ideas for my final project for the advanced production course at Humber. As a producer, I feel it is important to spend time discussing goals before you start working on a project. It is also important to build a connection with…
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Today, I had another production private lesson with Tom. We spent the majority of our lesson today discussing our plans for the final few lessons, specifically the portfolio project. The portfolio project involves me composing several drum samples / groove packs that I can eventually distribute to my followers. These will be home recorded acoustic…
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Today, I arrived early to my advanced production class to help setup for a classmates production time. The setup was fairly minimal, as the student, Amjad, brought in a Logic file, and already had several layers in place. My role for today was to help support Amjad in the building on his arrangement. He brought…
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One of the clients I have been working with, LJ, had been asking me to write a tune called “Healed and Whole” for a while now. Today was finally the day it was written. I woke up and started writing lyrics based on a prayer I was speaking. It helped that LJ gave me a…
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Today was my final mixing session with Fernando at Humber. For this mixing session, we mixed the remaining 4 tunes of Fernando’s EP entitled “Sky Music”. It was nice reaching a point after a hard semester at work when we felt the tunes were complete. For this session, I took more of a supporting role…
Production Process with Lucas 