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 I was Inspired to Create” Bad Bad Chaka “After hearing it on A record and decided to turn it into A creative piece. On my free time I enjoy listening to old classical music, especially reggae it brings A natural vibe that can be found in Caribbean music. Chaka Demus is A mainly known for his hit single with Pliers Called “Murder She Wrote “Released In 1992 out of Jamaica. I Feel this piece will make A good soundtrack for A island commercial produced to promote Caribbean Culture, knowing that reggae music is respected all around the world.

 

  In this Piece I have structured A simple back beat pattern with kicks on bars 1 and 3, and snares on 2 and 4. The time signature on this project is A 4/4 meter.  The drum A broken into 4 individual sections containing a kick, snare, hi hat and my favorite the rim shot which brings the Caribbean vibes with rim shots on “one and A twoie and A threeie and A four e “. On this piece I used acoustic drums keeping it original with a standard studio reverb. I did choose to go digital with the bass which will complement the melody in my second 16 bar section.

 

 While putting this piece together I decided to make this song in the key of G, revolving around the G Scale. The Chords through and out this project is in the Key of G | Am | F | C except for the intro section and pre chorus. The melody on this piece is A steady G one shot till you reach the second 16 bar section where the melody begins to shine and shows its true intensity. Starting at the second 16 bar you can start to feel the colors of the melody begin to build up n show its colors as this project begins to shape.

 

 The audio in this piece comes straight from Vinyl. I was able to pull this audio using A handheld recorder, making sure my levels are not peaking for sample processing. While capturing this audio piece, I will attempt to capture A audio loop in perfect sync time so that it can be used in the Sampler. With this loop I recorded the first 2 mins of the vinyl, then straight to A Stem Separator where I will begin to dissect the audio by separating its drum, bass, melody, and vocals, etc.... After capturing and separated the vocals the audio is now ready to be sampled processed and placed perfectly in it track region. After placing the audio where I wanted, now I can begin to mix the audio to my standards by adding EQ, Compression, and Noise Gate to help with vinyl static.

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 After getting the audio cleaned up, now I can begin processing my time-based effects. With the time-based effect, I decide to use delay and reverb, in majorities of soundtracks I do similar to this I like to use reverb and delays to give each sound its own shape. I believe when time-based effect such as reverb and delay are used properly it helps the piece resonate and not keeping it flat with no color. In this Soundtrack I wanted to get my dynamic processes perfect. I personally feel when it comes to reggae you have to get the dynamic processing correct especially in reggae music, when listening to reggae the sounds are always bright and have colors. When the EQ is set on the high-end it keeps the sound track bright colorful with timbre. Finally, Compression, I couldn’t stress this enough you must have the Compression set perfectly. When Compression set at A good level  you will be able  to pull all the  background or dim  sounds forward  to allow your project to shine in its entirety .