week 4
This week was recording week, as our weeks are running slim, we had a slight panic, as our drummer has dropped out on us, due doing having other priorities within university. So we had to record the guitar first. This wasn’t ideal but our guitarist was not left in the dark, we had a click track and the already recorded MIDI drums in the mix in our guitarist headphones, this made us feel a little more confident.
week 3
This week we contacted out musicians (now that the tab and readable music was ready and printed out) we contacted 2 people on our course to help us with instrument playing, we send out both the MIDI versions of the tracks to them aswel as the tab needed. We met up for a small rehearsal with each musician, one at the beginning of the week and worked with the other at the end of the week. This was so when it came to recording we knew our musicians would feel more confident with recording these songs.
Week 2:
From the midi that Jacob had send Filip we began processing it. This meant going through each instrument and turning everything into tab and readable music for our musicians. Me and Filip later that week, went to the library and began our research on the bands and the way they have produced each of there songs. We also wrote about backgrounds of each of the band and found out more about there genre. (Can be found on research post)
Week 1:
This first session Filip and used to come up with our learning objectives and out comes. He also showed me the artist that we will be working with and music from other band that sounds like the genre we will be record. The artist we are recording is called Jacob Liszewski, he send Filip 10 of his own original songs in midi from and asked us as producers to pick three of the best songs of the list and re-record them.
Project Research
When talking our client he gave us some bands to have a look at, these bands are the genre type that he wants to make. He wants us to produce his ep in the same way that the following bands have produced theirs.
Royal Blood
The lead singer of Royal Blood is Mike Kerr. His vocal influences are Robert Plant, Jack White and Jeff Buckley. People say that their style of music has influences of ‘early Muse’
Nothing But Thieves
Julian Emery is the producer of Nothing But thieves. Emery original worked with a lot of pop bands (Atomic Kitten, Kym Marsh, Blue and Annie Lennox. but wanted to go into the rock genre as its something he has always been interested in so he started off with working with McFly and then got paired up with Nothing But Thieves.
Band of Skulls
The band is known for its gritty, ferociously heavy indie rock and roll. The band started off playing in clubs in London and then went to New York where the band established there name.
Muse
Muse are known for being a progressive rock, alternative rock and space rock band. all of their songs have mixes of other genres too, such as art rock, progressive metal, electronic music and even classical music like strings. The lead vocals are by a man called Matt Bellamy, he has a strong breathy voice that contains a lot of vibrato and falsetto elements. Bellamy also plays all the piano and guitar in Muse’s songs
