EP plan
My name is Steven Williams AKA StevieBbeatz, I am a musician. I play the piano, compose and I produce as well. My goal is to become a professional Producer, to work with artists with no worries however my main goal is to work with known artists and make some beautiful music. In the music industry I see myself as a professional producer working in a studio with a few singers / rappers and engineers to support me, I also see myself teaching kids about the technical side of music.
My name is Steven Williams AKA StevieBbeatz, I am a musician. I play the piano, compose and I produce as well. My goal is to become a professional Producer, to work with artists with no worries however my main goal is to work with known artists and make some beautiful music. In the music industry I see myself as a professional producer working in a studio with a few singers / rappers and engineers to support me, I also see myself teaching kids about the technical side of music.
The genre I mostly do is urban & ambience, I do a lot of Hip hop, rap and R&B on the other hand I can do more genres but these are my main ones. My genres fit well with me because they are what make who I am, I grew up listening to these genres. The ambience is one of the mains that fit with me because it describes my personality - I'm a calm person and ambience is about calmness. My influence 4040 got me into ambience as I love his work so much and I would like to work with him one day also to produce for drake as he is drakes main producer - friend.
The content of my EP is going to be R&B and Rap, the reason why I chose this style of music is because I know the elements in urban music, I know how to make it, the chord progressions and so on. To add on I always listen to these type of genres on my phone and on the laptop so R&B/Rap is my speciality, it will be blendid with a bit of ambience to it... One of the examples that I am talking about when I say 'blendid with amhienfe' is Drake Pound cake. The production in that track is mixed really well, it's nice and calm also it's easy for rappers to rap over it.
The people I plan to collaborate with: 3 singers (Baran, Danillo, 1 session player (Andre) 1 pianist (Lamar) 3 Rappers (Kieran, Naga, Chucks) These people will bring a great aspect to my project because I know that they have the skills and abilities to achieve the goal that I want, they will give me ideas to make wonderful music. I will hire a session player because I would be the writer of the music & i'd tell the session player what to play. I would probably need a bass session player so I can get that live bass. I don't think I would need a composer since I would be the one writing the chords but at some circumstance i probably would need one as the composer would have more knowledge upon composition than me. Composers and session players are very different, composers are the like writers too , they write the chords, melodies and more however for a session players they are the people you tell what to play. **AS COMPOSERS, OR SESSION PLAYERS?** **WHY WILL YOU HIRE PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS**
Firstly I plan to get the pianist, in a production room with me, we will discuss about what sound we want to make(rap or R&B), once we have made the sound, me and the pianist will decide who we want for our song if it was a singer and a rapper we would need to see who has the right voice for our sound. I will tell them what the track Is about, if I feel that I want some live bass into my track then I would bring the bass player into the studio to give us that live bass sound.
Firstly I plan to get the pianist, in a production room with me, we will discuss about what sound we want to make(rap or R&B), once we have made the sound, me and the pianist will decide who we want for our song if it was a singer and a rapper we would need to see who has the right voice for our sound. I will tell them what the track Is about, if I feel that I want some live bass into my track then I would bring the bass player into the studio to give us that live bass sound.
In the studio there's different roles such as studio engineer, technician, engineer, instrumentalists, Layer and more. In the Music industry you need to pay people to mix your tracks & to master them. All of the roles that I just listed exist in the industry but they're not that known. I think that I would need a studio engineer to set up the instruments for the artists + instrumentalists and a engineer to mix and master my tracks (but in these terms I might not need one since I would be doing this job myself).
** MORE DETAIL FOPR EACH ITEM OF EQUIPMENT **
The equipment that I would need the most is the midi keyboard and Logic, this is because these are the main things that I would be using since I'd need to make the beats.
Midi Keyboard - A midi keyboard is a keyboard that transmit data to logic pro, it's the same as a normal keyboard except you can't play it live. This is the keyboard that helps me create my beats and sounds.
Another Equipment I would need is the Microphone (C414) one reason is it's a condenser microphone and it gives brilliant quality when recording with a rapper or a singer however it is quite sensitive... but I'd still need it. I wouldn't use a dynamic at this Case because the quality of a dynamic mic isn't that great in terms of studio recording, condenser mics are more better as they have that nice crispy - clean sound. Whereas a dynamic it's abit more flat.
The pop shield will also come in handy so that the plosives from rapper's doesn't damage the microphone..
Also I will be needing the Mic booth so that there wouldn't be so many reverberation when a singer/rapper is recording, it will absorb the sound towards the singer/rapper back at him/her.
To add on the stage box would be needed so I could plug the XLR cables into it so it can transmit data to the mixer and Logic.
I have 12 weeks to record my stuff, since I have free facilities at college and my old school that I can use... I would need to book the production room/studio at certain times, I would also need to book them often in college. So my schedule would be:
Monday - 11Am - 4/5Pm (At school Studio, working on the beats/Mixing/Mastering)
Tuesday - 11Am - 5/6pm (At school studio, working on the beats/Mixing/Mastering)
Wednesday - 1 Pm - 4-6 pm (At College Studio, working with an artist thinking of ideas, maybe with a pianist too for some extra ideas + recording)
Thursday - 11:15am - 12:30pm (At college studio recording with an artist)
Friday - 10:30 - 12pm - (At college studio recording *If finished recording, I would be mixing the vocals*)
Equipment costs:
sE Metal pop shield : £52.00
Mic Vocal booth Roughly: £60
C414 Microphone: £1,410.00
Microphone Stand: £15
Midi Keyboard: £80
Studio hire full day 10am - 7pm : £325
I would probably need about 30 Cd's to release which would cost about £30,
this is because I would mainly be releasing my EP online...
TOTAL COST: £1,415,62
but if my EP wasn't free it would be about £5 on Itunes/Bandcamp.
The promotion I would be doing myself, my group of collectives would be also helping me as well as my very known friends will help me promote.
In future I plan to release my finished product on my soundcloud, also on Itunes. I will be sending my EP online, to loads of artists to listen, also to my friends, maybe a couple of DJ's as well. My EP will be a free download as it being free will get a lot of exposure especially from the people that will definitely help me with the promotion. My product will be promoted on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and so on. This will attract other artists to see more of my work - to get them to contact and work with me.
Deadline of this EP, before June.
** MORE DETAIL FOPR EACH ITEM OF EQUIPMENT **
The equipment that I would need the most is the midi keyboard and Logic, this is because these are the main things that I would be using since I'd need to make the beats.
Midi Keyboard - A midi keyboard is a keyboard that transmit data to logic pro, it's the same as a normal keyboard except you can't play it live. This is the keyboard that helps me create my beats and sounds.
Another Equipment I would need is the Microphone (C414) one reason is it's a condenser microphone and it gives brilliant quality when recording with a rapper or a singer however it is quite sensitive... but I'd still need it. I wouldn't use a dynamic at this Case because the quality of a dynamic mic isn't that great in terms of studio recording, condenser mics are more better as they have that nice crispy - clean sound. Whereas a dynamic it's abit more flat.
The pop shield will also come in handy so that the plosives from rapper's doesn't damage the microphone..
Also I will be needing the Mic booth so that there wouldn't be so many reverberation when a singer/rapper is recording, it will absorb the sound towards the singer/rapper back at him/her.
To add on the stage box would be needed so I could plug the XLR cables into it so it can transmit data to the mixer and Logic.
I have 12 weeks to record my stuff, since I have free facilities at college and my old school that I can use... I would need to book the production room/studio at certain times, I would also need to book them often in college. So my schedule would be:
Monday - 11Am - 4/5Pm (At school Studio, working on the beats/Mixing/Mastering)
Tuesday - 11Am - 5/6pm (At school studio, working on the beats/Mixing/Mastering)
Wednesday - 1 Pm - 4-6 pm (At College Studio, working with an artist thinking of ideas, maybe with a pianist too for some extra ideas + recording)
Thursday - 11:15am - 12:30pm (At college studio recording with an artist)
Friday - 10:30 - 12pm - (At college studio recording *If finished recording, I would be mixing the vocals*)
Equipment costs:
sE Metal pop shield : £52.00
Mic Vocal booth Roughly: £60
C414 Microphone: £1,410.00
Microphone Stand: £15
Midi Keyboard: £80
Studio hire full day 10am - 7pm : £325
I would probably need about 30 Cd's to release which would cost about £30,
this is because I would mainly be releasing my EP online...
TOTAL COST: £1,415,62
but if my EP wasn't free it would be about £5 on Itunes/Bandcamp.
The promotion I would be doing myself, my group of collectives would be also helping me as well as my very known friends will help me promote.
In future I plan to release my finished product on my soundcloud, also on Itunes. I will be sending my EP online, to loads of artists to listen, also to my friends, maybe a couple of DJ's as well. My EP will be a free download as it being free will get a lot of exposure especially from the people that will definitely help me with the promotion. My product will be promoted on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and so on. This will attract other artists to see more of my work - to get them to contact and work with me.
Deadline of this EP, before June.
Use this post to set yourself some SMART targets with end dates. This should have been done last Wednesday (20.11.13)
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