Happy Friday All! It’s a beautiful day. Hope all is well with you. MsTrisMusic is approaching 1 yr officially next weekend. I will have a lot of goodies…
Next month I will start the producer/artist interviews, and add live footage. You noticed I have been introducing Baltimore artist already. More to come!…
Get Em Mamis photo outtake from F53 by Andrew Henderson
The Get Em Mamis (G.E.M.) are like family. I connected with them last week. We will be doing some “SuPer ChaRged” hits very soon. .I will be doing an extensive interview with them as well. I tried hard to wait for the interview before uploading their heat..but I just couldn’t .
Hot off the press!
warning:!!parental advisory! The Get Em Mamis: Work & Rock Wit Me
Its time for our Kelly Connelly photo update woo hoo!
I was excited to receive this months photos because I’ve worked closely with 3 of the artist before.
1st up are Baltimore’s Ej and Big Stee. Both represent Carnigie Records and have an extensive discography.
Ej and I recorded several songs back in 06′. He was also the Grand Champ of Baltimore’s “Style Wars” Emcee Battle. It’s really good to catch up on his music.
All Photos By Kelly Connelly
Ej
Ej “Baltimore Girl”
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Kelly also sent a cool picture of Baltimore Club music pioneers Scottie B. and Shawn Caesar. I did a post about Scottie titled “Scottie B- A Baltimore Club Music Founder..” a few months ago. He’s part of my humble beginnings as well as Baltimore Club Music
Scottie B and Shawn Caesar
Dj Scottie B “Chavy Boys Makin A Livin”
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Good Morning to All… Its a really bright and clear start of the day here on the east coast.
I’ve been rolling with music projects again for about 3 months now. I’m finding the balance between beats and blog. This makes me very happy!
I tried to find a send buss video for Adobe Audition as suggested by reader Dugga. I haven’t had much luck with it yet. Dugga, if I don’t find it I’ll do a tutorial with pics. I am sure I can figure it out
What I did find is an extensive effect tutorial. Most of you probably know how to add effects if you mix with Audition, but there’s some cool editing techniques described also…
I know everyone doesn’t use the same program for recording. Keep in mind, almost all multi-track software have similar editing capabilities. So do watch the vids even if you use something different. You never know what new tip you can use in your set up..
Just got a tweet that Mullyman’s video “Go Harder” Has been picked up by MTV. The song is fire..the video is amazing! Hot production done by the great DJ Booman!
Shouts out to Mullyman, Booman, and director Tabi Bonney reppin Bmore….Congratulations fam!
Hey all how are you? It’s so rainy on the eastcoast ..but work must go on…
I’ve been having a productive week. I had a vocal session with 43 tracks, not including the tracked out beat! I feel very good about engineering this project. I am using Reaper to record the vocals.
When I got to the mix, I really had to figure out the fx sends so I could add the same audio effects to main vocals. What this does is allow me to route several tracks to one single track. If I’m working with lots of tracks, this will help me to save cpu and time. I’ll explain…
Let’s say I have ten main vocals all needing eq,reverb and compression. With out sending them to one track for effects, I would have to insert 10 eq, 10 reverb and 10 compressor plugins. I have a pretty decent pc..but I know that would cause problems. Using the sends and returns I can add 1 eq, 1 reverb, and 1 compressor for all ten main vocals.
Here is a video that explains how to do this in Reaper. I was so excited to find this youtube channel. It is a Reaper Tutorial Jackpot, actually a production tutorial Jackpot! The guys from: limitless-studios.com have videos on a lot of things I cover here on the site as well. I don’t have time today, but I’ll surely check more out over the weekend. Let them know MsTrisMusic.com sent ya!
I know everyone doesn’t use Reaper, but try to use a DAW that allows you to use fx, send, and returns. If you are not mixing yet, you’ll need this option for advanced mixes. Later this spring, I will add more videos on other programs like Pro-Tools as well.
Good Morning all…how are you? Did you know it’s been almost a year..yes we are coming upon a one year anniversary. I plan to do something special, a few giveaways, and some free stuff … I am open for suggestions..
A quick note about my music theory post:
I am a producer who started off almost 100% sample based. Any compositions made prior to around 06′ were done by ear. As I continue to grow and learn theory, which I should have done yrs ago.. I will share here. I mention this because I really don’t want music teachers,or those who have studied theory for yrs to think I’m avoiding essential steps in theory. I post as I learn, or post things that I think will help others like myself. If you teach theory or have studied extensively feel free to jump in and help, leave comments and links. Help spread the word and make us better musicians ….
You hear the terms all the time Major and Minor. If you make music you will use a major or minor something. So you dive in and learn a few chords from a book or the net. This is cool and it gets you up and playing. But what happens if you don’t memorize the chords right away. When it’s time to make your next beat you will have to go back to the books.
I admit I am not fast at committing theory to memory. There are a few ways that will help us all build chords when we don’t have the written music and guidelines at hand.
A chord is made using 2 or more notes. The most popular chords consist of 3 notes and are called “Triads”. The concept covered in the video uses the number pattern 4 + 3 or 3+ 4. The spaces in between notes on a piano will be measured in increments of 3 and 4.
Major Chords from root note have a pattern of 4+ 3 and minor chords have a pattern of 3+4. Let’s look at C major and C minor.
C major:
Starting at C count up 4 notes including the black keys, then 3 notes including the black keys.
Using the technique we end with: C E G
C minor:
Starting with C, count up 3 notes including the black keys, then 4 notes including the black keys
Using the technique we end with: C Eb G
So an important thing to remember is: major=4+3, minor =3+4
The following video will help you get a better idea
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