My First Three Albums On Sale At My Shop

Finally my first three albums are available to purchase in physical form from my new Square Up powered shop!

My Debut Album: Justice But Acoustic

My Second Album: Knocking on the Techno Rock

My Third Album: Characters

What's going on?

 It has been quite a while since I last did a post on my activities.

Well I finished all of the vocal takes for my new album in a marathon 7 hours, split over two days, last month!

Working on track four, out of ten songs in total.

Going well and this eighth album has no guitars on it only synthesizers, sound effects and drum beats.

Keep you posted throughout the process of the progress on my new album.

I'm the meantime, check out my website!

Latest News: My debut guitar instrumental album Delay hitting the streaming highway!

Like a British bus, you wait for a long time then two come at the same time, or close by; which has seen my debut guitar instrumental album Delay hitting the streaming highway!

The reason I called it Delay was because I've heavily used the delay effect on all of the instruments to a greater or lesser degree. 

I have put a lot into this album and it gave me a chance to experiment with different drum beats and mixing different drum kits and taking samples from my own performances on my electronic Alesis Compact Drum Kit 7 and mixing them all together for some interesting variations and styles added to each track.

I also experimented with using the effects and doubling them to the MAX! Creating some strange sounds but more importantly for me is to make my music accessible to you all!

The first track Breeze I picked the guitar strings with different strokes and added the delay effect to wrap around the drum beat.

I have for the first time programmed (but I can play the notes used on the keyboard) synthesizer parts on the reggae/dub composition of Marching, and accompanying the guitar riff on Slipping.

I actually forget I recorded quite a bit of lead guitar and was pleasantly surprised when reviewing my recordings to put into this album of the sweet lead guitar work, which has ended up on Humble, Floating, Bubbling, and Flowing.

Tracks that sound more like techno tunes, but are actually effects on my guitars and bass are Flux, Flexing, and Stomp, with different drum styles that could transcend across the music spectrum including rock and metal.

Anyway, don't take my word for it! Check it fans @Apple Music

Keep on Rockin'! 

 

Latest News: Brand new album released

Finally, my new album Attitude was completed and released on the 16th August 2021!

It was a challenguing project, beset with some technical problems, but overcoming them and producing an album I am proud of, gives you a great feeling of accomplishment.

It was more easier to quit this project and start another. But when you do this you'll end up not doing or completing very much in the end. 

Hope you all enjoy it! 

My album is available in pretty much most music sites in every country across the globe.  

Time to Catch Up!

 

Is that the time? 

Wow, things have flown by, especially when you are having so much fun! 

Well, a lot of things have been happening, so the following posts will inform you as to what has been happening. 

Now the Mixing Begins

 

Now the fun begins....

Each of the ten songs have had some mixing, EFX and EQ'ing, so just some minor work to finish each song ready to be mastered. 

Stay tuned my Rockin' fans!

An Overdue Update

 

It has been a very long time since I've posted an update in my progress on my sixth album.

Well, I have recorded all of the vocals since December through to the first week of January of this year.

All of the vocals have been placed in the correct place on each of the ten songs on the album.

What's Up....

 

Cannot believe it's been nearly three months and I haven't posted an update on what's going on!

I haven't been slacking, promise! 

Been working on the ten and last song of my 6th album and it's going well but taking time. 

The song is very different to what the other songs sound like... it's more of a pop-tune.

The drums has got a handclaps and I've put the electronic sounding kick and snare drum, together with the hi-hat, ride and cymbal sounds from the Alesis Compact Drum 7 desktop box.

The bass guitar like on the other songs I played with my fingers not using a plectrum, which has produced a deeper sound. 

The guitar were recorded without effects and effects added, which allows more freedom to experiment with different effects and producing interesting sounds. 

There is a xylophone sound, which I played using the Alesis Compact Drum 7 desktop box, that has added a more mellow sound.

I have programmed a grand classical piano sound, further adding that pop-mellow vibe to the composition.  

Just need to arrange the congos and snare fills I played to be placed on the track, together with sound effects and then it's go for the vocals to be added.

Thank you to my fans and your patience and Keep on Rockin'!

Overworking on this album project!

Developing new ways in producing my music has meant working in one direction, then changing direction when the result was disappointing, thus adding more frustration in getting this album project finished.

It is like I've recorded four albums, as the amount of times re-recording parts and re-working parts of the songs has meant I've been doing too much in getting this album project completed.

I always get the projects that I set out to do, done, in the end!

But this new album of mine will be liked by you my fans: new, old and in the future!

Keep on Rockin'!

Drums?

I have completed four songs so far, which is featuring electronic drums played by myself.

As I didn't intend to play the drums, I have sampled some of my drum playing, which is making this project fun once again.

I didn't think of using my drum playing throughout my songs, but due to the difficulty in getting my guitar playing synchronised with the drums I programmed in the Cubase DAW*, meant that playing the drums I could get the right tempo for each part of the songs.

The reason for the difficulty was because I used a drum machine within the studio recording outboard equipment and when I transfered the WAV files to my computer the Cubase used a different value, so fitting the programmed drums wasn't very good.

As time goes on I'm getting better in the way I'm working in performing and recording my music.

* DAW: Digital Audio Workstation.

News: Instrumental Guitar Album Project

During working on my sixth album I recorded extra guitar and drums, which has meant that I've got three instrumental backing tracks and one track of lead guitar, which is very good and features wah-wah effects, plus I have programmed some studio effects in Cubase DAW to add different sonic dimensions to my lead guitar work.

When I record the drums it will be on a proper full sized electronic drum kit, with mesh drum skins that adds the real response and sound of a traditional drum kit.

Expanding the way I'm working is making music more exciting, with better results.

Keep on Rockin'!

UPDATE: February - March - Finished Recording!

Hooray! All of the overdubs of the drums, bass and guitars have all been recorded. 

The last song was recorded from stratch, which was an enjoyable experience. 

Now for the 'cutting-in' which is slotting all of the overdubs into place, which is another enjoyable creative process.

This will probably take another three months and I know I'm behind, but this album will ROCK!

Thank you Rockers!   

UPDATE - January

I have recorded the overdubs for five songs: drums - percussions - bass - rhythm and lead guitars. 

I have recorded including the overdubs up to 60 - 100 takes for all of the instruments on each song. 

Quite a lot of work still to do, but going well and I am enjoying the creative process of this album. 

UPDATE - LATEST NEWS - December 2019 - January 2020

Hope you had a Happy Christmas and Happy New Year to all of my fans worldwide.

Hope you achieve all of the things you want to in 2020!

Update - Latest of my Sixth Album

Latest News Update:

I have been busy getting the song structures finished and now every song is ready for overdubs, re-recording of guitars and drums, programming keyboards and drums and last of all the vocals. 

This will be hopefully completed just before Christmas (25th December 2019) and then all of the mixing and mastering done throughout January and hopefully released in February 2020.

Thank you to my fans and Keep on Rockin'!

Update - Latest on my Sixth Album

Latest News Update: 

I have only two songs left on my sixth album to finish writing and structure around the songs. The tenth song which is the last track on my new album has to be recorded from stratch.



The last song is going to be the way I work in the future. Instead of recording many takes of music then discarding a huge chuck of these performances, I will programme the drums and record the guitar, then structure around the song, then later on record and programme further instruments.



The fun thing about life is you keep on learning, which is part of the creative process - in life as well!