Gone Project Update 4 - Starting a New for Better Outcomes

In my last blog, I discussed the difficulties of what is was like working in a group project and dealing with bumps in the road. In a way, you could say this blog is a continuation of my last one but steered in a more positive direction. As the leader of the project, I came to realise after our last studio session that the project was only going downhill and that if we continued on this path we would have nothing to present to our following's or our co-workers. I eventually came to the conclusion that we had to start the project from scratch. It was a hard decision to make however, there were minimal risks as the progress we have now made on the new track is significant in comparison. Below I have included some screenshots of the Ableton Live session for the interest of my fellow producers out there!

Chords and Layers

Bass, Percussion, White Noise and FX

Originally, we had no idea where to start the new project as we are all relatively new producers and are still learning the routes of everything. Luckily, one of our classmates, Liam Lyttle (check out his stuff!), has previous experience in electronic music production and was more than willing to help us start out. This, combined with the new reference track I found while I was studying guided us straight back on track towards a new and exciting finished product!

But levels, where did you start??

Once we finally got ourselves organised and regrouped, we strived to find a starting point. This is where Liam's advice really came in handy as he suggested we start from the drop. I also remembered hearing the same advice from one of my influences in the past known as Odd Mob. By using this structure, it makes it significantly easier to build the remainder of the song both backwards and forwards from this point as you start directly in the centre. What's more is that you can basically copy and paste the drop anywhere in the song and simply remove the layers you don't believe are necessary in that particular section. If no layers are necessary, you don't need to, just create new sounds for that section! After all, that's half the fun right?

The Making of the drop...

So after we found our starting point, we needed to figure out how we were going to build a drop as none of us had ever done it before. Luckily, there's about a million different producers on YouTube who are willing to help others learn, especially beginners like ourselves. This is when the arranger of my group, Richard, stumbled across as a tutorial by a music production channel known as Production Music Live. Considering we were creating a future bass track, this video was incredibly useful as it demonstrated the basic foundations of creating a future bass drop and the keys in which future bass tracks are usually set in. For anybody interested in starting production under this genre, I'll list the video below for you guys to check out, it's great!

Production Music Live - Building a Future Bass Drop from Scratch

To finish up

I can easily say without a doubt that I have never been more excited to get back in the studio in my life and am even more excited to see just how far I can take this with my group. It took us a little while to get on the right track but who ever said you can't learn from your mistakes right? I'm hoping to bring you guys multiple track updates throughout the course of this coming week so be on the lookout for scratch tracks and more exciting blog content! Until next time! Catch ya ;)

Levels