This week was a bit more productive than week 11. My thought process of getting all the recordings done did not go as planned. It actually took a very long time to record the tenor parts since the music has a bunch of tempo changes and it trips me up and will trip me up while recording the rest of the basses and snare/cymbals I am working my hardest, though. I'm going to work even more next week and just keep recording to put it all together and I really hope that I can get it done.
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Week 11 has been a long, busy week. I only had one day to stay after school to atleast try and record some parts for the cadence, but that didn't happen. Instead, I printed off the cadence and downloaded a program onto my laptop to put multiple videos into one big video and got help on how to use it. It's pretty neat. Week 12 is going to be a grid. I am hopefully stay after school almost everyday and record. I have to record all the bass drums, snare and cymbals. I can do the tenors at home since I have one of the band's sets. Hopefully this won't be the longest thing to do. I know all the parts pretty well for each instrument (except cymbals) and should be fine. After the project is done, I still will work on the cadence to make it even better because I will have a lot more free time to work on it and come up with new ideas and execute them well.
Mainly this week I had worked on the snare part a lot because it is the second hardest part of this cadence. I haven't worked so much on my cadence because I have been thinking a lot about certain styles of music and have been busy with other classes. All in all, SubZero is sounding good and all I need to do is add the stickings for the snare and tenor parts. What stickings are is the RIGHT LEFT RIGHT RIGHT hand and tells which hand to use to hit the drum. I will do that after I get all the parts recorded and when everything settles down. I believe this is going to do well and has a good chance to be played next year.
This week, I have finally finished writing my cadence! I think it sounds unique and will definitely sound better with the drum line rather than on a program. I have done a lot of adjusting and have made things sound more together. I have also been staying after school to borrow the drums to record the parts on each drum and learning all the parts myself. Next week, I will be working mainly on learning the cadence and hopefully get some parts recorded so I can use all of them into one video. I am pretty excited because I showed a couple of seniors and they all say it is really good and it doesn't need any major adjustments. Honestly, my cadence is pretty tough, especially the snare part in the beginning. The flams and triplets can be tricky. The tenor part isn't so bad for me since I came up with the music mainly just playing the actual drums, plus I have been practicing them the most since they are the hardest drum line instrument to play. Well, this week I reached my goal of having a nice bass split and... it's nice. It may be a little difficult, but I'm sure people who are on bass line next year will get it because all band people know how triplets work and 16th notes line up, but I ain't too concerned about the difficulty because practice is something that should always be at least 10 minutes of your day as a band member, plus drumline is pretty serious about practicing. I also ended up getting the length of the cadence finalized to 1:25 seconds. I added a repeat on the first section and it will start slow and once it repeats it will pick up tempo to 110 bpm. I am struggling of how slow I want it to be the first time through. It needs to be slow, but groovy. It can't be slow just to be slow. Thursday after school, I dedicated the rest of my night focusing on ideas and actually learning the parts that I have created. I also got to record each drum and their parts, but it is a little rough since I am just now playing the parts, except bass because you just beat it and it sounds good.
So, basically I just showed my friends how it sounds and how it looks and I got really good feedback. Everyone says it seems to have great potential and even Mr. Jemison liked it a lot. I stayed a little bit after school and played it for him on his speakers and it sounds so much better now that you hear the bass line loud and clear. Now, my laptop has been glitching in one part of the cadence and I do not know how to fix it. It is really annoying but everyone finds it amusing so it isn't so bad right now, but fixing it would be ideal if I knew how. I really hope this cadence turns out to what everyone says. The beginning should be fine, but I feel like it's too white. I'll have to keep listening to it. The main part that I have been needing to add is a nice bass split, that is going to be next weeks goal. I have went with the idea and it is going really well. It's almost like creating a new cadence each time the drum break kicks in since its a different style and a different beat every time with temp variation.The notes are lining up really well and the Mii theme is easily recognizable. The execution has to be perfect, though or else people will think its just the Mii theme and with a little something, but what I want is a lot of that something. I have been thinking about so many beats and using songs to help me create a beat. It is hard because you have to one establish the beat and make it your own and two that it has to sound good. I am working on tempo and I am just unsure about how slow or fast I want to take this. I don't know if it should be a solid 120 bpm or a slower 86 bpm. I'll just see what happens in the next few days.
I did some rework on how the parts are in the beginning and removed some flams in the snares and put in some rests to help separate the parts but making them sound more together. I have also come up with a new idea I can do with this cadence. This idea is that you will have the Mii theme in the beginning and then there is a drum break kind of thing. after the drum break, the Mii theme will continue, and then there will be another drum break. I think this will make the cadence very unique and will be a nice mix up when people hear it. I have accomplished a lot this week. I am mostly finished with the first section of my cadence. All I have left to do in this half is to create the cymbal part, which will be difficult. I have created the snare part and made tweaks to the bass part as well as the tenor parts. I am really like how this is going so far. Now the cymbal part does sound wonky and I will definitely fix this soon because I honestly don't think it blends in well right now with all the other cool stuff going on. Cymbals is being a struggle for me. It definitely isn't the funnest part to write in the world, but it adds so much to the cadence that I can't neglect it. I think the part needs more meat and just the cadence in general. I think in the future I am going to go with the cymbals holding out for snares idea because it is a cool concept and we do it well and I think it'll add that much to how the cadence looks while playing it and how it sounds and make the snare part more interesting. I have been working on getting the tenor part clean and making sure it sounds good with the bass drums. My goal for this week is to figure out what I want to do with the snare part. I have been thinking about having the cymbals hold their cymbals out for the snares to play on and do it that way or I could just make the parts separate. I want to figure out which one I want to do by this Friday. Now, the cymbal players holding out their cymbals is totally doable and we do it in songs and the cadence swing. The only thing that was making not a number one choice is that I don't want it to sound like swing because it would I feel like have too similar parts, but I guess we will see what I end up doing in the near future.
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