Bobby's Blog for College

 23/03/26 - 27/03/26 Before I properly start unit, I need to figure out where my head is at. What kind of songs do I want to write? where will the songwriting come from?  Let me look at some songs and see what influences I can find 1 Pneuma - Tool This is the song that started my addiction to this band. What an incredible song with some unconventional time signatures and powerful dynamics. The song is about transcendence from ones physical being and ascending to a higher being. The spacial themes in this song really make you feel like you're in a strange place and the dynamics are just incredible during the build up. Danny Carrey the drummer uses a circle of fifths which transitions to a circle of fourths and then finally thirds. The drum signature is in 33/8 which is broken down into more smaller, manageable sections like 6/8, 6/8, 5/8, 6/8, 5/8, 5/8. The whole band contributes to the driving force that is the buildup of the song and couldn't have executed it better. The dyn...

  This unit was probably the biggest challenge for me. I had to write a song, (which my band already did for our performance units) Rehearse it, record it in the studio, mix and EQ the song, then using the most frustrating and confusing software, shoot and create a music video for the song itself. It has taken a good while, but I am pleased with the end result. Writing and Mixing  Writing the song a couple of months ago was fantastic, I was happy with how we performed it on stage and we have also sped the song up to around 150BPM. Making it in the studio was enjoyable as well but for future studio sessions, I would probably want a live in studio version as it would be far easier to mix. I cannot wait to bring songs like Corrosion of the mind and our self titled track into the studio. Mixing the song was fun in parts, I did better than I thought I would but I am confident that my other bandmates have made better mixes and music videos.  Shooting and making the music video...

I was tasked to create a podcast centred around my own personal practise and something that I can speak about given my style and genre. The topic of my podcast is all about different guitar techniques used in thrash metal and how I have applied them to my own personal practise and riffs. All of these guitars played in the podcast are played by me and I tend to follow a process: Explain technique, provide example of technique, and Show where I have used the technique myself.  It was really nice to create a podcast, It is not something I ever saw myself doing. I enjoyed providing examples for certain techniques and being able to show off my own riffs in this podcast. What matters to me is being able to create something, and putting some personal creations in the podcast made it feel a lot more special to me. Although I think this went well, I still would have done a couple of things differently. I would have spend more time on my ident and made it sound like I had put more effort int...