SUMMARY

Today was the last work day of my final project.!

LEADERSHIP ACTIVITY

Today I mainly worked on the small details of my project. Just to make it as “perfect” as I can. I also listened to my project in the car.

Soundtrap Exporting and Mixing Resources

• How to export a Soundtrap composition so you can mix it
• Mixing and Effects in Soundtrap (Support Topics)
• Mixing Audio Levels in Soundtrap (YouTube)

PRACTICE ROOM (GUITAR LESSONS)

Continue Justin’s 117 Free Lessons YouTube Playlist

 Jake Lizzio’s 5 blues guitar tutorials

How to Practice Guitar Chords: Exercises, Tips, and Advice

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

• SongExploder.net 
•  Holistic Songwriting’s Artist Series
•  Genius’ Songs Deconstructed Series
•  Rick Beato’s What Makes This Song Great Series

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

• tutorials
  • Hooktheory.com/videos
  • Songwriting Series. (4 videos)
  • Lyrics to music videos (2 videos)

OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)

Instead of a walk I went to the lake with my sister and Racheal (my friend). The first thing I want to point out is the cloudy grey wether, and we decided to go to the lake to swim. I chose not to. Instead I tried to write some song lyrics (not my strong suite), and drew a cat. The cool thing about lake swimming on a grey day is that there was hardly anyone there.

STUDIO (SONGWRITING)

• playlists on YouTube
  • Holistic Songwriting’s Playlists
  •  Songwriting Corner
  • Songwriting Exercises 
  •  5 Minute Lessons
  • Jake Lizzio’s Signals Music Studio Playlists
  • Andrew Huang’s Playlists
  • Paul David’s Playlists
  • Rick Beato’s Playlists
  • Marty Schwartz’s Playlists
  • Mary Spender’s Playlists

CONTROL ROOM (RECORDING & MIXING)

• Clark Eagling: Soundtrap tutorial 5 – Arranging the song, Mixing and adding effects
•  all five videos in the playlist
•  Soundtrap Support (Effects and Mixing)
• other creative people online using Soundtrap Swick’s Classroom Recreating Chainsmokers 

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

Today was the last class day to finish up my project. to be honest I started working latter in the day, but I’m pleased with what I came up with. This morning however, My keyboard that I use to record wasn’t being registered when I plugged it in. Im still in the process of trouble shooting that. in any case, today was very productive.

I wanted to start out the day by listening to what I have already done. First, I need to properly end the piece. Next I need to level the high and lows better. Once I was done with that, I took it to my car and listened to it on the way to the lake. The first thing I noticed was that the bass was over powering the high melody. I fixed that. I also noticed the need for a sixtenth note line. If I did that, my project would be able to build more. That is what I’m currently working on.

TODAY’s ACTIVITY EVALUATION

Content (The WHAT)

Rating: OK  – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5  – HIGHLY ENGAGED

Rating: 5

Going to the lake was a nice break, and calm environment to think about my project in a better perspective.

Process (The HOW)

Rating: OK  – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5  – HIGHLY ENGAGED

Rating: 4

I could have been more productive in the morning but that’s expected of a non-morning person.