L3 Unit 8: Week 4


With Week 4 creeping up on me like mothers day, I am scrambling for ideas of how to spend my time. My rehearsals for the new songs aren't happening as frequently as i'd like and I don't start recording the songs I already have until Thursday. My ideas for research are wearing thin but if theres anything I can do in college it's arrange the songs independently and get everyone in my band up to speed with the structure then record them. I have no time to make this perfect, but getting a good result is certainly not out of the equation. Heaven knows I have plenty of riffs in my phone that can create a song, I just need to figure out how to arrange them properly into songs. 

The tide will turn, and before soon I will have something to show for this project

I believe that the best course of action for the songwriting is to make it as simple as I can. Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Solo Chorus End. I don't expect to create some of my best work i'll ever create to be here, so I'm going to try and keep this as simple as possible. The songs will all come together now

This here above is the first draft of riffs that I created for my 3rd song. This leads to me and Bien making a drum track for it. One of the riffs is in 9/8 which is a bar of 4 then a bar of 5. 


After a new recording session and a writing session, I can say that we are making moves. I've more or less got my 3rd song and my first song is nearly fully recorded, I'm just missing the vocals. the song is around 5 minutes long and it works really well, this leaves me with only 3 more songs left to record. I know it sounds like a lot but progress is being made thankfully.

Song 3 Writing


This is an acceptable length for a song, and a nicely structured one as well which goes through all the heavy stuff at the start and it hits that killer 9/8 riff with the drums totally complimenting the guitar in every way. when its fully complete I think It'll sound good with bass and vocals. I'll be writing some lyrics for it soon as well as writing the 4th and final track, whilst also working on mixing all 4 songs. There is lots to do, and I feel like I can lock in and complete all this.

Poisonous Soul Recording

Me, Bien, and Misu took to the studio to help out with my first original song and it went successfully. Since bien was unfamiliar with the song it took a while to get him use to the structure of the song and in the end we got it mostly done by the end of the session. I got a couple of photos but I don't actually have the logic project in my account at the moment.

Bien on drums

Bien playing drums



The mac book and interface used to record the track


Next week will be filled with just as much, if not more work than this week.


Information and Research about 9/8 time signature

The ‘9’ stands for 9 beats per measure and the ‘8’ tells us that each beat is an eighth note. This means that the notes in each measure will add up to nine eighth notes. The eighth notes are grouped into three sets of three.

time signature 9:8 with 9 eighth note sshown

Now here it is with each eighth note beat labelled. Each group of three would count as one strong beat.

9 eighth notes shown in 9:8 time with beats



How to count in 9/8

9/8, like all meters, has a distinctive feel to it. We count 9/8 as 1…&…a…2…&…a…3…&…a. The short piece below contains more complex rhythms with a variety of note lengths. Can you spot where each beat falls?

three measure of music in 9:8 time

Now here it is with the counting added in.


three measures of 9:8 time with beats labelled



All information comes from https://jadebultitude.com/time-signature-9-8/ 

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