Week 3 - David Lim - Frozen

PROD - 41 - David - Demo 1

Recorded at Studio F1

Who played/sang:
- Lara (Vocals)
- Gary (Acoustic Guitar)
- Elliott (Keys)
- Darrill (Percussion)


Mics Used:
- AKG 420 (Vocals)
- AKG 420 (Room Mic)
- Shure SM58 (Percussion Mic)
- Direct Input (keyboard)


Lyrics:
Verse 1
It is that time of year again
Presents, gifts and treats
All around me
Yeah~
It's Christmas! 


Chorus
it won’t be a blue christmas
it’ll be red, green and gold
it feels like christmas
when i’m home


Verse 2
Cookies milk and sweets they're all for me
Fairy lights and snow cover the trees

Chorus
it won’t be a blue christmas
it’ll be red, green and gold
it feels like christmas
when i’m home

(Instrumental)

END

PROD - 41 - David - Demo 2

Credits:
Everything: David Lim
Produced in my bedroom.

Summary:
Last week, I wanted to create a chill and yet hype track. But i felt it was a little tough to incorporate both of them together with my knowledge of both genres right now, so I wanted to explore both ends first, so this week.... its gonna be "chill-ish"! I also wanted my track to have a bit of trance-like feel, so i felt like my percussion's did an adequate job.

Differentiation:
I had a drone (Keys) playing on the bottom throughout keeping the main melody.

Delivery:
I wanted to start with something simple, so i just started with some chords as a "main idea". Then i added a percussion sample to give it abit of movement and to introduce a new concept to the piece. Then I gave some stable beat through-out. I decided to introduce something different in the middle because I've never really heard of it being done before so ya.

Prow 3

Credits:
Midi: Me
Samples: Splice

Summary + Differentiation Factor:
This week, I wanted to try and see if a song can be carried even without a melody, so I tried just having something chordal and just adding percussion.

peaches

Summary: I wanted to create something different this week, so I decided to make something doesn't have defined "melody" or "chords" which is what I have been doing for the past few weeks. 

Differentiation factor: No defined chords/melody.

Delivery: Outer space seemed to really intrigue me and I was thinking about it this week because of the whole eclipse occurring soon. I started out with some synth patches that seems to depicts outer space. Soon enough, I had some sounds that i really liked. I had a drone going on at the background throughout the whole piece to kind of make it not sound so empty. then after that i just jammed some notes into it to give a 'trance-like' feeling. Then I added reverb here and there.

Prow 5

Summary: This is sort of a drum track? Just expressing some ideas about the week i guess. This week was rather chaotic thus at the climax of this track, the drums seems to be clashing with one another.

Differentiation: Most of the time, the drums provide the rhythm and will be at the background supporting the band, but for this prow, I wanted to try putting the drums at the foreground. I wouldn't say the drums are playing a melody, but instead it is expressing rhythm with some form of pitch.

Delivery: I started out with some basic rhythm, then I started to progress and started layering on some toms. This track has toms, kicks and crashes only. No snare. Then I added in some chords played on the organ. Since the drums were the only one playing the "Melody(Rhythm with pitch)" I had to make sure it still sounded full in the background. Thus, I layered 3 organs in my attempt to fatten everything.

Prow 6

Summary: This track is to signify our lives right now. At the start it was calm, everything was planned. But towards the middle everything started clumping together, schedules clashed, everything got more fast paced.

Differentiation factor: I used a very different approach for this prow. This piece does not have the conventional sounds that songs have.

David Lim

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