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[Music Journal] Day 1 – When the Door Closes

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Hello readers!

Since I’ll be participating in a music creation workshop during spring break, I thought I’d create a little “music journal” to document my improvement and the general process.
I hope I go through with this.  

So this is basically what my Friday night amounted to…
I started working on reproducing a song, which is always a good place to start if you’re new to music production, which I am.

The song I chose was When the Door Closes by B2ST’s Dongwoon and Doojoon.
I chose this song because, well, I already had the piano music for it so I didn’t have to figure out the notes by ear LOL.

Listen to the original song here:

Now I tried to make my version almost identical to the original, but I don’t have the kind of software and equipment, nor skill, to replicate the song exactly.  I tried my best.
The video will show you the general process I went through to make this, and the final product.  However, this doesn’t show you the fine-tuning I have to do—that would be too painfully boring to watch.

AND, before you listen to my version please note the follow:

  1. I play the piano for fun. I quit piano lessons about… 3 years ago? So please excuse the bad “hand posture”
  2. I’m a so-called n00b at music production.  Self-learning at the moment. Hopefully I’ll see improvement after I’m done the music production course at the Art Institute.
  3. My editing software was being a bitch and lagging like hell. So I didn’t edit the video as well as I had hoped. (Had to use YouTube annotations).
    And the editing software was probably laggy because I didn’t actually buy it… 
  4. I’m not actually done.  There’s still lots to this song that I haven’t added.  Might continue it and update on that later.
  5. The end, where the “final product” is shown, is really boring because I couldn’t find footage to accompany the song so I just used the shots I used in the beginning intro.
  6. As you will see, the vocal part for this song is missing.  And the reason for this is that, quite frankly, I have the voice of an angelic donkey.  So you can add your own vocals while you listen at the end, if you know the song 😀

Enjoy.

Link to sheet music used: http://www.4shared.com/office/njf-EV4L/Doojoon__Dongwoon_-_When_The_D.html

password : kdwakbo

– JessHe