AJ's POD Journnal

POD Song 3 Funk Rock Untitled This is a song that just randomly came about from a drum sample I got. The moment I heard it I immediately thought of a bassline. Once I heard the Drum and bass together, I knew I'd make it a funk rock song and from there it came with a bunch of experimentation with retro sounds and synth. The arranging to this was super challenging though before I just had a bunch of sounds that started to just become noise when everything got together. Eventually, I managed to sort it out but I realised there was another problem that I haven't had much experience with. Energy. I'd always have this burst of energy in the intro which was good, but whenever I wanted to switch to the verse, suddenly all that energy just disappears and suddenly the song's feeling/direction is gone along with it. So I think the essence for this song is how I control the energy throughout through the arrangement or songwriting. Pod Song 4 RnB Untitled Supposed to be ...

POD Song 2 Indie Pop Nicotine Before I start talking about the song, I realized certain things now. For all the songs I'm writing, I always go with the feeling of the song as my direction and top priority. So the problem that I have with me right now is that I actually have a lot of scrapped material in my Logic library for the past few weeks. Like for example, when I'm reopening a logic session and I listen to it again, I always get that ' this isn't it ' feeling and it's like the feeling/direction of it is just all wrong for me. So I'm always experimenting through new projects and trying to work on how to make it better based on past ones. This is especially true with the RnB song, and at this point, its something I've taken a break from working on and am working on the others. Anyways the Indie Pop song is the one that I've worked the most on, going through different melodies, different instrumentation, and I'm glad to finally have a str...

POD SONG 1 Acoustic Ballad When I'm Gone So I started on the Acoustic Ballad first and it's actually something I already wrote before school started. So it was mostly the recording process that I did for it wheres its just my vocals, the acoustic guitar, and a bit of pads. Creating the acoustic song is very comfortable for me because it is a style that I've been doing for a long time now.  But what makes this special is that its a song I wrote immediately after seeing LEW who is a local artist live. He has this very special ability in his songwriting that always gives off this certain feeling that's present in almost all his songs. So I wanted to somehow do that too but in my own kind of way and this is what came out of it.