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Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Happiness by Conova

 Music has always been a passion of mine, ever since I was a young kid. It's clear that it flows through my blood as most of my family is musically orientated. Ever since I can remember, I've always played an instrument but I was always interested in the actual process of making music. The pandemic really allowed me to hone in on my composition skills, which has now been forming into more production skills, ever since I started learning Music Technology and Composition at the University of Huddersfield.

The song was originally given as a task to complete in one of my modules but over time, I've really started to get attached to it. In the New Year, I promised that I would start uploading my music online, for everyone to listen to and see how my musical journey progresses. Even though this is a short piece (clocking in only 1:45), this has been a great example of how I've overcome the challenges of being "thrown in in the deep end" when using a DAW like Logic. I hope that everyone who listens to this song enjoys it, as I have enjoyed making i
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Tuesday, 21 November 2023

Spotify's new payment scheme

Well, my music career has come to an end with Spotify's New royalty payment scheme Stating that songs need 1000 streams a year in order to qualify for payment. Not one single track of mine gets more than 1000 streams per year indeed only about 20 of my songs across the whole of my business enterprise have got more than 1000 streams since 2015. So thank you very much Spotify you have just ended the career of an artist who is number one in his County, in the top 30 in his country and higher than 400 globally.
Well thanks a lot I wish you well in your greed and avarice in keeping money that previously came to me in your coffers

 

Wednesday, 25 October 2023

Musical Artizan In Concert

 
 
 
 
 
There two songs here the first is makes use of the Prometheus scale and the seconf makes use of the Hirajoshi Scale 
 

 



 


Everything you ever wanted to know about where chords come from!



The Prometheus Scale

 


So whats the Story on how I produced one of my latest songs "The Eruption"

 



So what is the first step in producing a work of art.


Theory, Theory, Theory,

 

I can't express enough the need to learn music theory if you want to become a composer/producer

For this work I chose to work in the Hirajoshi scale

 


  


These notes would be used in various octaves on various instruments.


For this work I chose to work with Percussion from the Americas, i.e indigenous instruments to both America and mainly Brazil or Peru.

 

In Sibelius I chose the world instruments section and the Americas instruments.

I chose Bongos, Handclap, Congas and the Iya ( a native drum)

To get around the fact that noteperformer does not work with rewire I exported the audio from Sibelius to Protools. I created a file in Protools set the metronome on 100 BPM and imported the audio.

I decided to add a more western drum loop.

So now we have a basic mix we need to set the volumes and make use of the space ie panning left and right.

I now need to record the lead part. For this I chose the Native American Flute in Am.

Having recorded the part. I added some reverb, not forgetting to increase the pitch by 32 cents 

This is to increase the frequency from 432hz to 440hz.

 So what does my master piece sound like?

 Well you can listen here!
  



Let me know in the comments what your thoughs are!



 

Understanding The Minuet

 

So what is Sonata form?

 

Pythagoras maths and ratio in music

 


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