ROCK that SOUND
Rock music is where it all started. An inspiration to create rock songs, featuring guitar, bass and drums, guitar solos and any different interesting sounds courtesy of the many recording studios. Being in any studio is a world away from everyday life, a place to be creative, to explore ideas, to experiment with sound, to let your imagination go wherever it wants. It’s true that influences over time will affect song writing perhaps changing the style or genre, but the challenge will always be writing an original song that proves popular, or that has a riff or melody that’s immediately memorable. The problem has always been and still is to a large extent, getting your music out there in the public domain.
This website provides an opportunity to the listener to sample some original guitar/keyboard based songs created in a private studio built over ten years ago. The free time then and now afforded me a planned method of writing new material in a studio available 24/7, hence my album and others to follow. Some songs written some time ago have been tweaked lyrically as well as musically, in search of perfection through my subjective ears.
THE PROCESS IN SHORT
Within all the songs and the many recorded tracks, all the different instruments have been played by myself which my Bio page will help clarify, however extra sound effects found within Logic Pro X have also been used, triggered by another keyboard. Thanks to having my studio access available 24/7, it’s allowed me the time to be creative and write a song or two but there is a fair bit involved. After lyrics and vocals, an arrangement has to be made mixing the instruments together then overseeing it all as a producer would, resulting in a finished product that no doubt will be tweaked again and again after several listens! From first recording the rhythm track, the drums, then bass, then guitars followed by keys etc., ending with vocals, the whole process and completed song would take around a month or so, then a break and onto the next. The reality is, producing an album is likely to take the best part of a year but enjoyable nonetheless.