Greg Lester

Main focus: - Practising drums - Sound design - Completing the project 4 proposal - Collaborating with Jonny on a metal dubstep hybrid track - Continue working on the DOOM Re-Score I will use my off time during the easter holidays to practice drums because I have a drumkit at home in Austria and I am going back for 2 weeks from the 8th of April until the 25th of April.  During those first two weeks I will only have my laptop and thus will be limited in terms of music production so instead, I will try to focus on Sound design by watching tutorials and attempting to recreate sounds I like.  Additionally, I will complete my project 4 proposal and when I'm back in England I will collaborate with Jonny who is a friend of mine and very talented guitarist, we are currently working on a metal  dubstep hybrid track which is inspired by Modestep. Together we will continue writing the track and hopefully finish it in the next 4 week.  My final goal for t...

I will pick "Exercise 1: Using the sweepable EQ Method and Inserting multi-effects via a bus send" because I enjoy mixing and have explained how to use EQ and multi-effects to some of my friends and thus I am quite confident in it. The second one I will pick is "Exercise 4" because I would like to explain how I would go about starting to re-scoring the soundtrack of a video game. In the process, I would elaborate on how to create a certain vibe for the game using different techniques and explain the psychology behind why humans feel creeped out by some soundtracks. I think this would be a very fun and challenging.

The assessment as a whole went very well, the band's performance exceeded all my expectations and they were very confident and having a lot of fun on stage which carried over to the crowd who enthusiastically clapped and cheered when they finished. After mixing and syncing the track to the video I feel like the end product is of a high-quality standard and could be used as a demo for the band which they would be able to send to labels, music blog's and magazines or even to agents and managers. This is due to the fact that even though the recording is not the highest quality the visuals really add a lot of energy to the whole thing. I encountered some problems along the way which ranged from people not turning up to rehearsals to the dynamic range of the vocal being very high and thus having difficulties in the mixing stage. Using my Gantt chart I tried to get a good overview of when I wanted to finish and hand in all my tasks because I prefer to get things done early so I...

"A Friend (James Taylor cover)" The first song I've chosen to analyze and compare to the cover version is: "Carole King - You've Got A Friend (James Taylor cover)" Carole King and James Taylor know each other personally and have performed "You've Got A Friend" together live in 2010 during their Troubadour Reunion Tour Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlDI4g5ab1g Cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEkIou3WFnM Original by Carole King Cover by James Taylor Key Signature E minor F# minor Genre/Style Soft Rock Folk Rock, Soft Rock Tempo (BPM) 85 92 Recording Date 1971 1971 Release Date 1971 1971 Producer Lou Adler Peter Asher Arrangement/Structure Intro (4 Bars) Verse 1 (8 Bars) Pre Chorus (8 Bars) Chorus (16 Bars) Bridge (2 Bars) Verse 2 (8 Bars) Pre Chorus 2 (8 Bars) Chorus (16 Bars) Middle 8 (10 Bars) Chorus 3 (16 Bars) Outro (16 Bars) Intro (4 Bars) ...