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On Monday, I sat and worked on my song "Find my sound". In this song I foreshadow a section, from a previous verse into another verse. What I mean by foreshadowing is the regular English device "foreshadowing"; just like in my second verse when I mention a toxic woman (Who is this bitch). I do this because I am trying to persuade the audience that I am really angry.
That foreshadows in my final verse because my final verse starts off by talking about going out, having drinks and having fun (straight to the club) but... I'm with that "toxic woman" so I'm not having much of a good time until, someone called "Daisy" replaces her. I done this so I could create a plot twist between emotion. personally I think this would keep the audience hooked. The reason why there is only 1 name is because I really wanted to convey that I was angry about the "toxic woman". This was to give that extra effect. In one of Avenged Sevenfold's sad songs "Brompton Cocktail" They utilise the foreshadowing technique by foreshadowing their band members death "The Rev or Jimmy Sullivan" which was caused by a suicided of a hand-made cocktail. The first lyrics are "Doc, I'm dying, I'm feeling compromised", this is him talking to the doctor saying that he isn't going to live on any longer. this is foreshadowed by "I have the right to die how I wanna and leave how I arrived, so alive" this part is saying how he wants to feel alive as he dies, so from the first part of the song to the last part shows that he has grown some dignity and thought to him self "if I die I want to feel www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Avenged Sevenfold Brompton Cocktail (With Lyrics). [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIJ6FnJ29lI [Accessed 26 May 2021].alive".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIJ6FnJ29lI
On Tuesday, I needed to record adlibs over all of my verses. This is because without my adlibs the track would have sounded rather bland and plain. This is because the way the bars were set; because of the way the bars were structured, there were gaps in-between the bars. This was a perfect place to include adlibs.
another reason I done the is because I was influenced by a rapper that I usually listen to "DaBaby". DaBaby is one of my favourite rappers and I feel like his adlibs have a really big part in his tracks. What makes his adlibs so good is that he doesn't only utilise singular words, he sometimes overlaps his actual vocals making his adlibs way more interesting .DaBaby (2019). DaBaby - BOP on Broadway (Hip Hop Musical). YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28hYUZMufDg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28hYUZMufDg Even singers use adlibs all of the time, well the majority of the songs I listen to do.
In order to record my adlibs, Micah helped me out. He sat at the mixing deck and set the track to play through the headphones. I showed him how to do this in order to make the process of the recording faster as there is not long left. We recorded one take and then over that take we recorded another, we done this until I got the adlibs I could work with. Micah was a big help with this because instead of me running back and forth, Micah was able to just keep clicking record which made things a lot faster. After I finished up on the adlibs, Connor came into the studio to have a listen. We had a chat about the structure of the song, we talked about where Matthias's verse should be appointed to. We decided to put his verse right after my 3rd verse because my 3rd verse is more of a build up towards Matthias's verse. After Matthias finishes his verse I recorded in a little chorus/verse in order to take the track out. This part wasn't wrote down, I just done it from my head although, they are repeated lyrics:
On Wednesday, I also started thinking about an ep cover. This cover is hand drawn and is in black and white:
I got the picture sent across to me by Caitlin; she asked what I was doing for the cover and I said that I'm think about having loads of misplaced doodles so it sort of looks like graffiti. I wanted it that way because it matches with what the ep is about (letting out). Each little drawing has it's own expression which really conveys different feelings, just the way each song does. Because the drawing was in black and white, I decided I would have a mess around with editing it. With each blog about my ep, I am going to create a new edit:
First edit:
Second edit:
Third edit:
Fourth edit:
Fifth edit:
Sixth edit:
The past blogs about my ep (without a cover photo), I created a one for each. These edits aren't the best but the one I'm most likely to proceed on is the second edit. This is the the red and blue edit. In that edit, I focus on the colour contrast between the red and blue. I chose to have these colours because I done some research on the colour wheel to see which colours complement each other:
www.google.com. (n.d.). colour wheel - Google Search. [online] Available at: https://www.google.com/search?q=colour+wheel&client=ms-android-verizon&prmd=isvn&sxsrf=ALeKk00n8a6M [Accessed 26 May 2021].https://www.google.com/search?q=colour+wheel&client=ms-android-verizon&prmd=isvn&sxsrf=ALeKk00n8a6MAlthough, red isn't complementary to blue, it works because these colours are 2 out of 3 of primary colours. In my other edits I utilized the filters, the first one with a filter is dark green with a paper texture over the top, I thought this would add to the edit because it made it look as if it was a crumpled up piece that went to get thrown away. Another was an edit which was yellow and pink; with a brick wall filter, this filter made the edit look as if the drawings were spray painted onto a wall as if it was graffitied onto the wall. The last edit I done with a filter, I made blue with a darker blue as its secondary colour; the filter was an overlap of little rain droplets. This created a lonely sensation, especially mixing it with the blue. On this edit I messed around with the focus point and the intensity of the background blur. I chose the circular focus point so I could focus the middle of the picture. I then turned down the intensity of the blur so you could still make out what other drawings are on there.
For the research side of things I try to get some responses from lectures on this song. I got a comment of Billy after he heard "Find my sound", he mentioned about my use of inappropriate context and words. He mentioned that, the way he hears the lyrics is quite offensive towards women. I noticed this after he mentioned it. The reason it sounds offensive towards women is because I'm trying to persuade the audience that I'm angry about women so I'm just "letting it out"... hints the ep name. Another reason why I have done this is because with this song I'm trying to flip the emotion around as soon as I go into my other verse. The emotion flip is: anger to more of a relaxed feel. After the song was complete, I showed Susan the track mainly because she is a fully grown woman and could potentially give me the same or different feed back. She said that she really enjoyed the track and didn't give me any criticism, she also said that she enjoyed the ending part were it's just audio of a failed recording. She said she loves songs that has that at the end because it shows that the musicians are still human. I will definitely take Billies criticism into consideration with my next set of lyrics by not addressing women so shamefully, for e.g. instead of addressing them as "bitch" I would address them as "chick" or "lass".
In my time at home, I have been researching more on how to structure a rap song properly and the website I utilized taught me the most common structure of a rap song: Anon, (2020). Rap Song Structure Is TOO Important To Ignore - Rhymemakers. [online] Available at: https://rhymemakers.com/rap-song-structure/.https://rhymemakers.com/rap-song-structure/
1.Verse, chorus, verse, chorus
2.Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus
3.Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, chorus
4.Verse, verse, bridge, verse
The way I shall create my own thing out of this knowledge by writing lyrics that have these structures involved, this is so I can get used to different styles of writing. I feel that this will help me out while writing and composing because if I understand how I want the writing set out, then I can start planning what I would like to include in them sections.
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