Decades Evaluation 1

Decades Evaluation 1

When listening to to all the artists we covered, I particularly took interest to the songs 'Superstition' and 'One Love'. These two were more appealing to me because of the tempo of the song and the genre they both are.

I do admit to have spent a lot of time on Superstition with the drum beat and when creating some of the bells which did affect me in the long run when not having a a good amount of time for One Love and Teardrop. I think that is a major factor with me which is unfortunate, but is something that i am working on quickly, which is time keeping. This is proven by the times of me completing work and handing it in on deadline eve's.

When producing the song One Love i looked up remixes of reggae songs online to see examples of other songs. this helped me when deciding whether or not i needed a massive kick drum or intense high hats to change the genre of the song originally. After coming to a conclusion i decided a simple drum beat was necessary and reverb on the voice sounded pretty cool in my opinion.

Superstition was very different to my first composition because i didn't vary as much as i did for the Bob Marly song. I went for an approach that i was familiar to, which was trap/dub Which i feel payed off at the end of it. It was upbeat with a drop that was noticed easily and although i spent the majority of my composing time on the song i enjoyed exploring the bells and creating 808's to give the song a real kick when needed.

Having created these versions of the songs i have A) explored into different genres and found how to mix completely different genres together. B) i was given help mixing the final version by Luke and Ollie as they both noticed that the gain on one of my drum sets was way to high and would have been distorted when listened to on a decent speaker. C) it was my first project that i had a deadline to give in when producing something on logic and as most people know, you can't really predict the time of how long it will take you to create a song.