Week1- Nea Jie Xi-I'm sorry

Intro

Verse 1
This is the life that we face all day
Not black and white just grey
The world ain’t stopping now don’t fade away
As we try our best to stay

Verse 2
Are we really just humane or insane
As we try to  recreate
Is this just a war or just a race
As they say they making a change

Pre-Chorus
Trying to make things complicated when they hit the wall
Digging under through the floor to find its very core
Oh oh oh is this how the devils find their way into the soul

Chorus
Running away
Oh how it fallen but they still look the same
Trying to find another way
Chasing the Southern Lights
To light their way
On a rainy day

Verse 3
It’s not yet the darkest days
But we might be on that way
There’s nothing much to say
‘Can’t really tell, can’t show our fate
Is there light among our covered face oh
No, no, the time is right
We still can change by opening our eyes
But are we colour blind

Pre-Chorus
Somewhere in our minds we desire that utopia
Our sins will always binds us from the underworld
Oh oh oh is this how they built the world





Chorus
Running away
Oh how it fallen but they still look the same
Trying to find another way
Chasing the Southern Lights
To light their way
On a rainy day

Bridge
Where do we stand now after all this time
In our minds we never declined

Chorus
Running away
Oh how it fallen but they still look the same
Trying to find another way
Chasing the Southern Lights
To light their way
On a rainy day

Credits
Guitar(Bedroom): Jie Xi
Lead Guitar (Bedroom): Gary 
Vocals and Backing(Bedroom): Jie Xi
Drums(Studio C): David Lim
Bass(Midi): Jie Xi

Mics:
Guitar and Vocals: MXL V67
Lead Guitar: DI
Drums: MD421U, Yamaha Subkick
Bass: DI

Lyrics: Jie Xi
Melody: Jie Xi
Arrangement: Jie Xi,Gary

PROD-Final-Jie Xi-Rainy Day

Summary: The idea of the song is to describe the experience of having anxiety, it comes and goes and it can really be very disturbing to your head, people can help you but it is only temporary, a lofi track contrasted with noisy and messy guitar is how I describe the experience.

Differentiation:  The unique idea of the song is the messiness, usually a lofi track alone either comes with a few vocal samples or a rap, however I decided that to make it unique, I made the main melody a noisy mess of experimental guitar sounds and very noise synths and pads, everything is out of time. The lofi track usually is a repeated pattern and it can be boring, but with the noisy guitar and lead synths, it will sound irritating, but that is how anxiety feels

Delivery: Using a normal lofi track there is an arrangement, at the "verses" is where the noises of anxiety which are guitar and synths come in and goes away when the chorus enters, there is a small little part where bells come in that represents people helping, but it sounds out of tune to show that it is not very helpful. At the end of the song, there is still noise and the lofi piano is left alone, but the noise is softer, representing that overcoming it yourself is the best away to deal with anxiety.

Location: Bedroom
Lofi Piano: Jie Xi
Pads: Jie Xi
Bells: Jie Xi
Guitars: Jie Xi
Voice Intro: Jie Xi
Drum Track: Jie Xi
Bass: Jie Xi
Composed: Jie Xi
Arranged : Jie Xi
Mixing:Jie Xi, Dinz.

PROW Week 2-Something About Fear

Summary: The idea of the entire song was initially to make game music, the chill relaxing type, however I had and idea to sort of contrast the song between game and real life. One side is a chill and soothing song that you will probably will hear if you are playing game and you are in a safe village. The other side is more action-packed and sounds more like a boss battle music

Differentiation: The difference about this song is the way the song is portrayed, the contrast is purposely done to represent fantasy and real life. The first side a chill and dreamy song represents the way we want to think of life, easy and simple and just relaxing, however the other side deals with what we need to face with reality, action-packed and noisy to capture the idea of how busy we are and not everything is that simple.

Delivery: The chill side is purposely made with only around 5 tracks, while the action sides has 12 tracks, the first side sounds very kiddy and joyful, like you are laying on the plain-fields that sort of vibe, the other side is full of arps, louder pads and a electronic drum that sounds a bit "edm"-ish, a guitar is also recorded to make it sound more "real and organic" to bring back the idea of reality. The song ends without a clear ending to portray that this reality has no ending at all, it will always keep going till the end of lives.

Midi Tracks: Jie Xi
Guitar: Jie Xi
Mixing, Arranging, Composing: Jie Xi
Location: Bedroom

PROW Week 3-Something About Games And Life

Summary: The idea behind the track was to really capture a bedroom kid playing guitar and recording it to a voice recorder which songwriters do before getting gears. It's just a scenario of a starting songwriter, you wrote lyrics that don't really make sense, you sit down and play the guitar in a candid but not perfect way. Then you sing but you don't know  the melody so you improvise and just try to squeeze it in to make it sound decent

Differentiation: The difference is not only it's recorded on a voice recorder, but the entire song and feel is like a starting songwriter, lyrics are just full of rhymes and ideas in the head and melody isn't the best but yet it is done intentionally to bring out the "amateur" feel

Delivery: The song is recorded in a continuous take and no punch ins, nothing much a simple voice recorder and a decent guitar, the structure of the song is simple with a modulation at the chorus and the ending sounds weird. Sounds from outside intentionally or not are also in the track to make it sound more "bedroom" and "candid".

Guitar and Vocals: Jie Xi
Mixing: Jie Xi
Written: Jie Xi
Bedroom
Olympus Digital Voice Recorder-WS-750M

Lyrics:
Verse 1
Sitting beside the window panels
Under the cool breeze
4 in the afternoon
Pretty much nothing to do
Staring as we slowly move on
I seemed to wonder, why so low
Turn it to a better degree
To feel a bit more under the tree

Chorus
Slowly dreaming off to somewhere new
Away from the table to a magical fable
And I see a forest to leap
Lying on the fallen leaves

Verse 2
Late, on the last moving train
Such a quiet place with a painful strain
And I wonder how time moves so fast
People call me a man
Feels weird to take that can

Chorus
And a signal again
All your regrets together with your shaking hands
Oh, it’s too late to go back
You messed up a little, but it’s just like a riddle

Outro
And that’s a little story
Written through thoughts that pushed me
And I don’t know much
But it’s not over
Till I see for myself 
At rest

PROW Week 4- Something About Demo's And Bedroom

Summary: The idea was the fact to use hand made sounds such as a table and voice to record a simple track but after listening to SYNC class that taught us how to record and sample these type of "organic" sounds, I had the idea to record a song with a melody over a completely hand-made recorded sounds through midi, hence being able to loop it easier.

Differentiation: The difference is the fact that the song's backing instruments are all not really instruments, they are tables, voice effects recorded through my own voice and edited using logic's software to make it sound less like the original recorded sound and more of a OST soundtrack you will hear in TV shows

Delivery: The track is like a cycle loop track, the backing instruments, drums bass and other harmony are sampled and looped with a synth melody playing, the only instrument not recorded but used from logic pro. There is a edm-ish sort of vibe like a built up and a "bass drop". 

All effects and instruments: Jie Xi
Composed and Mixed: Jie Xi

PROW Week 5- Something about Organic Sampling

Summary: The idea came to me when I was listening to some Japanese And Korean Instrumental Tracks that really brought me a lot of emotions, hence I decided to recreate them, however soon I felt that it wasn't very interesting, hence I decided to add more spice by adding more instruments and vocals also.

Differentiation: The main difference is that the song structure is different, 3 verses first, followed by 1 chorus, a solo and then an outro, I wanted to steer away from the pop structure as it didn't suit the song well and also experiment how the structure can bring about different feelings of the song.

Delivery: Piano and Bass acts as the starting rhythm session and goes on for the entire song, at the chorus, the chords for the rhythm changes and strings are added, the piano loop changes for the solo and a soprano sax followed by the strings are played, this is the most exciting part of the song with a sort of built-up to it. The outro tones down with just vocals and piano slowly just fading off.
I try to make the vocals as live as possible, hence I left in all the mouth noises and also added in the harmonic distortion and reverb to make the vocals thicker and more like in a hall and another track with telephone EQ to make it sound more less clean.

Vocals(MXL V67)-Jie Xi
Midi Instruments-Jie Xi
Bedroom
Mixing And Arranging: Jie Xi
Lyrics-Jie Xi

Lyrics
Verse 1
A little dot
Painted on the walls
Stepping through the corridors
A clear blue sky
See the branches bathing in the nice warm sunlight

Verse 2
With the radio off
Hear little sounds
Out and Above
It feels quite nice
A peaceful slice of life

Verse 3
As it turns to night 
I can see the fireflies 
Making it much more bright

Pre Chorus 
So fine, this is life
Away from the bullshit I stepped across
Last time
It will probably die
At least let it’s heart survive 
So I could keep it

Solo

Outro
This is where I want to go

PROW 6#-Something About Relaxing And Song Structure

Summary: The idea came out due to the fact that I was running out of ideas to make the song interesting, hence I decided to write a song about how I am out of ideas 

Differentiation: The difference is that the song is about describing how I have no idea what to write for this song, hence I decided to just add "lyrics" based on what I was feeling, the structure of the song is different, Two Verses a solo and an outro

Delivery: The song first starts with an electric piano playing a chill song with "normal" lyrics which then follows on with a very groovy guitar and drum beat which plays the main song with the main idea in it, after two verses, there is a short solo and then a slight change in tempo and change in the rhythm of the drum track to tone it down, signalling the end of the journey and the song.

Midi: Jie Xi
Guitar:Jie Xi(DI)
Vocals:Jie Xi(MXR V67)
Mixed, Arranged, Written: Jie Xi
Bedroom
Lyrics

Intro
I crossed the seas
To see under heaven
A little leap
With the smell of nature’s feet

Verse 1
 I ran out of ideas
For this one simple song
What key does it matter
It’s definitely not better

Verse 2
So sorry I can’t sustain
My imagination’s contained
I don’t know what to say
So now i’ll give you an instrumental part
Cause that always works out 

Outro
So I’ll just now end this song
And hoped you enjoy taging along
For this interesting journey
Must come to an end

PROW 7-Something About No Creativity And Ending

When The Rain Falls
Verse 1
A Amaj7 D(X2)
A letter long ago
Telling me to don’t let go You called me on the phone And I chose to not respond Interlude
AD
Verse 2
A Amaj7 D(X2)
Bm E7
4 years apart
And I’m still the same And you are the one A star raised upon us
And I don’t deserve this love
Chorus
D C#m F#m
Bm E7 A A7
D C#m F#m
Bm E7
You tell me the things that I know And we should just live on hope The river flows into the gutter Why should we drift along
You need a better man With skills and higher plans When the rain falls
Please forget it all
Build-Up A F# D E7 A D(X2) Dm A C G A
Verse 3
A Amaj7 D(X2) Bm E7
And so we meet again
A faded memory in your head A happy family
As I try to move on
I remember it falling apart
Chorus
D C#m F#m Bm E7 A A7 D C#m F#m Bm E7
You tell me the things that I know And we should just live on hope The river flows into the gutter Why should we drift along
You need a better man With skills and higher plans When the rain falls

Please forget it all
Outro
D C#m F#m Bm E7 A A7 D C#m F#m Bm E7
And now I regret it all
I lost myself and at what cost
I’m falling apart and it’s all my fault
I’ve wasted that love
And now that I see you again
Tearsdrop driving me mad
When the rain falls
I’ll die along
A
Bm E7
When the rain falls
Will she remember it all?

When The Rain Falls(POD 2)

Intro
Dm Bb F C C#
Verse 1
Dm Bb F C(x2)
Minutes turn to hours long
Feels like its been years since I just lost it all Earthquake, with pain
Crowded with these hungry wolfs
Standing by and stealing in the golden mine They pay with my rage
Pre-Chorus
Gm C Dm
Gm C A
My body has betrayed me far too long It’s time for me to go to war
Chorus
Dm Bb F C(x2)
I will fight, throw my life into what is right Survive, with all my might
Hurt me now, is it sounds or the terrible smell Taking this crown
Verse 2
Dm Bb F C(X2)
Now I was stupid and just young
I was late and everything just closed down
In hell, I yell
My soul can’t take it anymore
I guess it’s time to leave these world and screw it all Why life, must be cruel
Breakdown
Dm
I want FOOD x2
Bridge
Gm C F Dm
Gm C F A
x2
I will find another time
For now I live with some dirt and crumbs I will stand guard and take the bite
And feast on my light
Feel the joy in my gut
Chorus
Dm Bb F C(x2)
I will fight, throw my life into what is right Survive, with all my might
Hurt me now, is it sounds or the terrible smell Taking this crown
Outro
Dm Bb F C C#
It is better when it’s far from home
This is a song bout food and drama LOLS

Vocals: Snowi
Bass: Jie Xi
Guitar: Jie Xi
Synths: Jie Xi
Drums: David
Mix and Master: Jie Xi

POD 1

My Perfect Song
Am Dm Am Em(Entire Song Till Outro) I’m the perfect man
Born in gold
I make no mistakes and no regrets at all I look dazzling in everything I wear
The ideal guy for you chicks out there
I’m perfect I’m complete
My wallet never empty
Bulk of cards
I’m a leader that everyone adores My family loves me
And all are happy
My medals and awards hung above
I’m the best I always win
Chorus Talk
When I was 6 I placed first in my school
I didn’t do much it seemed easy to me
Places I go I was always the first
And never touched the second
Because second is the first loser(HelpMe)
And I am always the winner(HelpMe)
I lead this world amd its future generations(HelpMe) I must and its my destiny
Verse 2
I’m the perfect man
I am strong
You will see me on the billboard
I have my friends who praise me often
We share a bond that’s harder than diamond
Chorus Talk
I am special
I’m unique
I’m different from all of you who try to be me I am pure
I do good deeds
It’s what mama said to live life complete Honour is what I must bring
Friends, no such thing
To torture yourself for awards that’s value And status is what they bring

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