“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
- F. Z.
It’s A Process .
Three steps to craft the perfect track.
Composition
Performance
Playback
COMPOSISTION.
Laying a foundation is critical. The structure of any music piece has hundreds of different possibilities, and is always apt to change. The composition of your score should reflect what you want to convey. There are so many routes one can take when composing a song, and the unique details of yourself should come through in every capacity. The process of writing music can start simple and gradually become more complex. It may start with some simple chords on the piano with a generic beat, and near the end of the process, that piano becomes a synthesizer, and the drum track is played on a multitude of percussion instruments. You’ll know what sounds can supplement the track when you begin recording.
PERFORMANCE.
Now comes time to pick up the guitar, and let it out. Whether piano, bass, drums, fx, etc. this is the time where I’ll play and the song is given its first breath. Actual performance on an instrument from a human. Its flaws and variants are welcomed because it makes it true to the heart, as oppose to through a computer a letting a robot conduct the track.
PLAYBACK.
Now comes the final process; polishing. The tracks are individually layed and now everything is leveled and given some flavor with the tweak or a few knobs. Everything has to be leveled just right, so nothing overpowers the next. Your track is finally mixed, given a final master, and it’s now ready for playback.