WEEK 5 - PRODUCING

I'm a little behind the blogging (it's now week 6 - the final week), so I'm going to backtrack a bit. So in week 5 (last week) I began producing. After recording two variations of the piano, I decided to combine them together to create the ultimate piano piece - as I couldn't decide on either one - and also some sections were better than others in both tracks. 

Luckily as they were similar variations, it wasn't too much of a hassle to mix the two together, as the key and melody wasn't changing. 

The trickiest part was putting the cello along the piano, as I had recorded every individual note of the cello in the same key. So I had to move every individual note to match up with the piano by listening to every section carefully. It took several hours just to do this, but it was definitely worth it in my opinion, as it adds so much more and gives a real emphasis to the entire piece. 

I then added in the foley of the water and stick mixing together, but it didn't sound quite right as it got quite clicky, so I opted for the sound effect of the water droplet - which was actually created by flicking the side of your mouth. I added this to a part that wasn't too dramatic, so it could be heard clearly and wouldn't create the piece to sound too cluttered. 
In the end it worked quite well, because I already had the sound of rain being consistent, so adding in another kind of water based sound enhanced the style of the entire piece. 
Overall I went into uni about 3 different times to produce all of this - around 3 hours at a time.