Terrell Brown

Terrell Brown by Young Fenn

Week 3 Reflection

The last week of senior project was a success in the end of everything. Their was a lot of work to be done this week. I finished the last little bit of my Mix-Tape Terrell Brown. In addition to wrapping the Tape up I planed , prepped and prepared for the Alter Egos concert that I put together.  

   

        Creating the album was fun while it lasted. Recording took a lot of patients. Things didn't always go my way.Things not going my way was expected. I had to work around things. Things like studio time and  when I could get some one to engineer me. In the end it all worked out. I spent a lot of time working on my own early in the week. 

        Preparing for the show this week took a lot out of me. I have never had to prepare for a show in my entire life. I have never even stepped on stage to perform anything. I almost lost my voice several times this week. Despite the scares I didn't loose my voice. I kept practicing and preparing for the show. 

         The show went on Yesterday evening. There were a lot of things that went wrong. Over all everything wasn't perfect, but nothings perfect.  In the show we had problems that we had to solve and move around. One of our performers wasn't feeling the love from the crowd so he left in the middle of one of his performances.  The show had to go on and it did. I continued to rally by performing some more of my songs with the help of Christopher Allen. The show didn't come out to what it was suppose to because of the performer leaving but all is well. 

The Show

I have been rehearsing and organizing things for the concert on Saturday. Putting together everything is coming together well. I have almost everything planned for the concert. this mourning i woke up and finished my set ( the songs I will be performing).

We made and put up posters all around campus. If you haven't seen one of these posters some where around campus I will personally pay you a dollar. I think were doing an excellent job in promoting the concert. In addition to the posters we sent out an facebook invitation to almost the whole school. So far 60 said that they were coming but im predicting more than that will show up. Getting people to show up shouldn't be a problem. Getting them to stay is the hard part.

Parental Advisory

Official Track List

Terrell Brown-Intro

Set You Free - Young Fenn Ft Alex Richichi

Gorgeous - Young Fenn Ft Alex Richichi

Home -Young Shotta Ft Young Fenn

ASHe-Young Fenn

What You Doing?- Young Fenn

Bounce To- Robin Dirt Ft. Young Fenn

Heights - Young Fenn - production ACE

Break Down- Young Fenn Ft. Chris Allen

*Sweet Moans- Young Fenn 

*Free Play- Young Fenn

Terrell Brown-Outro

*Possible Bonus tracks

The last of Recording

As of lately the studio has been a little pact. This is a problem for me for multiple reasons 1 being I like to have my personal space and be isolated with a select few while working. 2 I am extremely  cluster phobic!!! I do not enjoy being in a building or space with large amounts of people at all. In the studio there has been a lot of people coming in and working on minor projects. With so many people working on small projects it distracts me and takes away form what I try to do. I have been lucky to have the studio for as long as I have to myself practically.

 The End is near for the recording of Terrell Brown. I am excited to listen to it and see if I am a fan of what I created. I am my biggest critic so I am extremely nervous. I would hate to listen to a whole Tape that I created and HATE it. Especially sense I know for a fact that people would be forced to listen to it. I guess in the end of it all I cant get to down on myself because I had so much fun recording all of these songs.

Since I pretty much know what I am going to put on the tape, I am going to post my track-list of songs tomorrow. I will try to give a brief over view of some songs that may be considered Controversial to the outside eye.

Weekly Reflection 2

This week was a very productive week for me and my senior project. I got a lot accomplished. Even though I did get a lot of things done everything did not go as planned or turn out like I expected it to. I am perfectly ok with my plans not going the way I expected them to. My original plan was to record the last four songs that I had hoped to be on the Mix-Tape but instead I only got  two done. I only finished two songs but I spent my time doing other productive things involving my music. 

This week was spent recording and practicing. Practicing and preparing for a concert that I am putting together by myself with the help of very few. The concert that I am coordinating is a lot of work. It is a lot of work but its fun as well.  Performing live is something that I have never done before. I am looking forward to performing in font of a live audience. The concert as of right now is going to be held in the Wise. Its not determined  inside or out yet. My peers and I thought it would be amazing if we had the concert outside. Due to the thought of rain we put that thought on hold to be on the safe side. 

There is a lot of work that goes into planning an event. This week I got the chance to see this fist hand. I got a chance to witness Proctor’s ensemble concert. Bill Whitman planed everything. For him to plan everything the way he set things up had to take major pre planning. I know this because of what I am experiencing. There is a lot of work done behind the scenes of events like live performances. Sound would be a problem with us. Getting everything set up and working properly is what I am most concerned about. Every one who plans on performing has minimal experience with setting up for a live show. I decided it would be best if I called upon the man with more experience Jacob Hines. Hines would make things easy for us. There is a slight problem that we have with renting out Hines for our show though. He might night be available. Hines have to do booth work for the upcoming musical on the same night as our performance. I am going to problem solve and how work my way around this slight problem that we have.

This week I’ve learned that making plans are important so you can have a guide to follow. Guide lines and rubrics does nothing but help you in the long run. Even if you make a plan and it doesn't go accordantly, It is better that you still have that initial plan as a blue print. In addition to planning everything in advance I learned how much work it takes to plan a big event. 

Moving forward  this week I plan to wrap one or two songs on the Mix-tape an be done with the recording of Terrell Brown. In addition to completing my Mix-Tape I plan on having some one follow me around in the studio for a little while with a video camera recording what I do in the studio. I would love to to do this because I would like to give a visual to everyone reading this blog on the entire operation. 

Mixing & Editing...

Everything you hear now a days on the radio or even threw your speakers is mixed and or edited. yesterday I talked a bit about Pro Tools but not in depth. The mixing and editing part is where Pro Tools come in to play. In a recording session a producer wants to get the best possible performance out of the artist as possible. After the recording is done and everyone is satisfied the real work begins.

Pro Toos offer plugins that makes vocals sound better or worse depending on how each is used. In editing a song there are endless possibilities to what a producer can do to vocals. (And I actually mean endless). Im not even joking when I say that with the help of protools you can edit and arrange anything and make it sound like what ever you want. Have you ever heard a song and fell in love with it (the way it sound)?...and went to hear it live and it wasn't quite the same? In fact it was horrible?? well a combination of good producers and Pro-tools would be the blame for that....


Mixing and editing vocals is a hard thing to do. Hard do to the science and technicalities of sound and with all the options you have. Sometimes I find myself staring at the mixing boards for periods at a time deciding what I want for little details. Me personally, I try to make my vocals sound crisp and clean nothing out of the ordinary just basic.