The purpose of the project was to manage a complete music production from start to end, with the following deadlines:
- Turn in a demo of the song you will produce
- Make a chord sheet for the whole song
- Write music scores for melody and bass, both handwritten and computer made
- Make a plan for all musicians rehearsing
- Make a plan for how long the recordings, rehearsing, mixing etc. should take
- Make a plan on how you will record the different instruments / vocals
- Make a plan for how you will do the mixing
- and finally turn in a final mix of the produced song
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| Handwritten bass score (That was a lot of eights... ) |
In my case I wrote a song called "Satisfied" for a competition hosted by Propellerhead in August 2014, just before the school started, and that song was a good choice for this project as it contained several acoustic recordings (electric guitars, bass, vocals, drums and an acoustic guitar). This was also the first time I wrote a song in the metal genre, so it was fun to try something new!
It can seem that one school year is a very long time to produce just one song, but we were only allowed to do recordings for our projects during the 'recording classes', and editing was done during the 'mixing classes', along with other tasks and exercises. We also had to use ProTools 11, which I do not have access to at home so I could only work during school hours. All students in my group also shared the studio time for all their recordings, so the schedule was pretty tight.
The project went along just fine, with no major hassles, though I had to re-record the bass, and also change vocalist during the progress, but as I had added some extra time to the time-plan it was no problem!
The song will be released soon, but if I haven't released it in a week, just wait longer! ;)
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| The Master mix on Audio CD, and ProTools project folder on DVD. |
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