Progress!

Term 2: My composition is pretty much done just making a few changes as I practice with the band and get them ready for recording end of next term. Im doing my second arrangement right now (a jazz arrangement of hip hop warren G) and will work on that till the end of term. I’ll […]

New Plan!

After playing songs with the band I realised how good they sound and have made a decision to do a Haze Long EP instead. We will record end of Term 3 with Sam Martel being our audio engineer. We have to be super tight so I have planned to finish writing everything in 2 weeks […]

Rockquest and Progress

I am entered this year in solo/duo category in rock quest! Using two of my new songs: Bound together and On top which I have been practicing a lot and polishing up. I had a free period so I practiced and also recorded in the studio just so they are ready to add new things […]

ALbum Update

I have been writing like fury recently and have 8 songs lined up. Here is the list of songs and what needs to happen to finish them: Connected: Some lyrics, Chord fix ups On top: Finished What I gave: Finished Grey: Old song, may not use but it is finished Bound Together: Verse 2 Lyrics […]

Tokyo!

Japan is incredible! I have spent the last 5 days going to different places in Japan and I have one day left here before we head to Kyoto. The people and the size of this place in insane! I’m not sure what to say really! You have to see it to believe it! I have […]

Reflection on term 1

This term I have worked on writing and on my arrangement. I made a funk arrangement of a pop song and I have been writing quite a lot. A lot of time will need to go into recording and getting my tracks good next term. I haven’t spent as much time in the studio as […]

Writing songs

I went on production camp on the weekend and I had some spare time to write. I did a couple of hour sessions just sitting outside with the guitar and developing my current songs musically. The best thing I got out of it was the lyric writing. It was good to be somewhere where I had […]

Progress Update

At the moment we are working on our arrangements and composition. For my Arrangement I decided to do A funk version of an Ariana Grande song called Break free. It had quite a fast beat and electronic feel and I turned this around in to a small funk/jazz band arrangement. In the last couple of […]

Cool Arrangement

As I start my arrangement project I was looking for good arrangements of songs. I found a channel called PMJ (post-modern jukebox) on youtube. The best one I saw was a cover of Sweet child of mine in a new orleans jazz style. It was well arranged for the style and the instruments used.

MAINZ trip

Last week we went on a trip to MAINZ. MAINZ is the local music technology school in CHCH. We were spoken to by Ivan who ran the school (he’s from Ukraine). He talked about music technology in the industry these days. Producers at the desk have become the new conductors of music. They can chop, […]