Stretch Goal 2: April 2020

The Stretch Goal By April 30, in collaboration with my soon-to-be freshman brother, I will have completed the Holistic Songwriting series to give me the ability to write MIDI files for 6 out of the 12 songs on my upcoming album, The Torch. Why? I want to achieve this Stretch Goal for 2 interconnected reasons: […]

Session 6 Production Project

SUMMARY Role: This time around, I’m taking on the role of mixer to get a second draft on the “final mix” the song I presented last time, a song I have chosen to give the working title of “Daydream”. Intention (SMART Goal) By March 18 as a part of a solo project, I will have […]

Session 5 Production Project

Summary Hello again. For the past month Keith and I decided to take a break from our work on NYOH (check previous blog posts if you don’t know what that means) and work on individual projects. Fortunately for me, I have a plan in the works: MIDI files for a song I hope to put […]

Session 4 Production Project

Summary Hello! For the past month, I have been working with my buddy Keith Porteous to record and release the songs from Keith’s Dramafest musical, New York Or Here. The song listed below is the first mix of the second song in the musical, Squint.  21st Century Skills Evidence Ways of Thinking  Having never navigated […]

Rock Production Post #2

Summary Hello again. This time is going to be different from every other post that I’ve done thus far. Why? Because I didn’t create a song this cycle. Shocking, right? So what did I do? Well, my focus was not on myself, but on other people. I played the role of mentor, mainly helping the […]

Production Cycle #1

I’m back (again). Shall we jump in? Summary So, what happened while I was gone? Well, for the past month I have worked with vocalist Tiana and guitarist/bassist Dillon to create, record, and upload a “song”, no matter how crappy or long it was. 21st Century Skills The skills used for this were aplenty, probably […]