WEEKLY DIARY FOR PORTFOLIO

Week 1 (17/01/2019)

During this week I have started to analyse deeper my composition '9 Letters' which I think I have to focus more into its structure and dynamics. I have been developing a progression of solo notes that might fit very well at the end of the second chorus. If we listen to the audio attached of the song below, you can see what I am talking about when I say that I want to add a guitar solo for the second chorus just to give a better taste to the song and also to complement the reggae style.

I composed this song with the objective of exploring new ways of mixing genres, some friends tell me that my style is more genre-fluid which is exaclty what happened with this song '9 Letters'. Basically, it was an intent of mixing trap influence with reggae influence and as a result this song came up.

However, I used some reggaeton artist as an influence for producing this song. But, now I am just trying to make this song even better. This week I will finish the guitar solo, and I will add some lyrics too.

Below, I have attached some links of the artist who influenced me in this song.






I just had a look to this two version of his song,  and I realised that If would mix my song with reggae and trap influence plus some reggaeton influence it might be a really good exploration for my FMP of the last year.

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