March 2024
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After a late St. Patrick’s night, I woke up feeling inspired after some meaningful conversations with Brandon, an artist I am working with. I took this inspiration and decided to channel it into writing another song. I titled this song “Breakthrough”, since the main hook of the song featured the line: “I’ll be breaking through”.…
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This morning was the morning of the gospel service. We had a quick review of the songs we practiced on Thursday, and we all felt ready to go. The service itself was beautiful, and the message was for us to do our best to be still. This isn’t an easy task, because we are constantly…
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After an insightful conversation with a good friend, I woke up and was inspired to try to write a song. I was surprised because I didn’t really expect anything much to come out of it, but I ended up writing a full song in about 30 mins! As I began to write, each lyric seemed…
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Today, I didn’t have a lot of time to produce because of the late night session I had for my D.S. session yesterday. I was debating whether or not I should listen to the songs straight away in the morning to make sure I was happy with them. I was worried because I knew I…
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Today was the day of my last mixing session for my Humber 4th year project! I began the day by meeting with my producer James. I played him the final edits I made for “My Life”, as well as “Use Somebody”. After stating that he enjoyed the edits I made, we moved onto making a…
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Finishing off where I left off yesterday with my D.S. project, I imported the new drum track I made into the Pro Tools session. My Pro Tools session now had the percussion track, the new drum samples, as well as vocal layers, background vocals, synths, bass, piano, and guitars. As I began fixing a few…
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Today was back at it for my D.S. project! A series of a 3 hard working days leading up to the session on Wednesday. The first element I had to focus on was making sure the background vocals were appropriately tuned for the arrangement of “My Life”. Shanaya sent me these stems which she recorded…
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Today, I didn’t have a chance to do studio production work because I was busy with worship services. The morning service at Mountain Springs was awesome. I got back into musical directing after taking a week off last week, and started becoming more comfortable communicating with the band on the mic. We were able to…
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After receiving feedback from my professor on my arrangement of “My Life”, he suggested that I make the drums sound more modern, similar to what I did for my arrangement of “Dreams”. In order to do this, I needed to follow a few steps: *Repeat for snare sample, tom samples Stripping silence allowed it to…
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Today, I had my first production private lesson after reading week with Tom Ionescu. I love taking production lessons because it allows me to practice techniques I have learned in previous classes more closely. Some techniques we are practicing are triggering drum samples, organizing sessions more detailed, and reviewing functions of several plugins such as…
Production Process with Lucas 