Meeting the Artist and Producing the Song

 05/10/2021

Andrew, Liane and I went to Dylan's home so I could start producing the song for Dylan to rap to. Once there we discussed what kind of song we wanted to make. 

Dylan showed us some of his songs and we discussed his influences. Once I got a sense of what kind of music he liked to rap to I started writing a melody and making a loop while Liane and Andrew discussed ideas on what direction the song and video could go in. Before the session was over I made sure that Dylan felt that the song was in a style that he felt he could write some bars to and that he liked the music.

Later that evening I edited the loop and structured the song, changing the pace slightly in some sections to create variety and hopefully make it easier for Dylan to structure his lyrics and generally make it easy to write to. I was aiming to make the whole song around three minutes in length.

Once I finished the song I sent it on to Liane and she played it for Dylan. He really liked it and immediately set to work writing lyrics. By the next day he had finished writing the entire rap. He will record the vocals and send the stems onto me this week, then I will finish structuring the song and do a final mix and master to ensure it sounds good on a variety of speakers.

I created the track using Ableton Live.