During this tutorial, I presented an updated demo. The structure of the song is nearly finished and the mix was starting to come together. I was told my production was coming along fine and so I should start focussing a tad more on the blog, which is understandable since I have regrettably been avoiding it. I’ve got some research noted down that has been helping me meet my learning objectives. I now just need to write it up in the blog. I’ve set myself the task to get at least two posts created by the next tutorial; one to explain what I’ve done so far – the other to state what I’ve done this week.

Also, I’ve been informed on more possible references including Cid Rim and the Drive soundtrack by Lol Hammond. I’ve also been told to check out Ice Dip by Geoff Petty to help with my research.

During this tutorial, I had presented my demos so far. None of the demos were fully written; most of them were just short loops. However, since I write and mix at the same time, this is does not alarm me – I’m confident I’ll have fully-structured songs soon. My tutor gave me ideas on how to improve the work I had so far. One important piece of advice was to use more automation on certain tracks, and some variation in individual drum tones, in order to keep the listeners interested. With the demos in mind, my tutor kindly informed me on some musicians that I could use as references include Survive and Jon Hopkins.

For my fourth tutorial, I sat with my tutor and made sure that my learning objectives were ready to be written-off. I had to make a few more small changes but it was all finalised in the end. I also checked with my tutor to make sure that my guest lecture blogs so far are written in a suitable format. Since I spent most of the tutorial making the final tweaks to my current blog posts, there wasn’t enough time to get much feedback on my demos. However, with the blog honed, I was in a good position to start making some real progress on my work.

During this tutorial, I’ve been advised to further hone down my introduction post. Although I’m set on what it is I want to learn, I’ve found putting it in word form to be quite difficult. For example, I need to find a better write ‘I want to make my mixes sound wider’. I’ve also been told to number my outcomes and objectives so that I may make quick references to them in other posts.

I have also been told to prepare some demos for the next tutorial, meaning I’ve really got to buckle down with my production work.

During this tutorial, I had been given advice on how to improve my blog introduction. I needed to rearrange the structure of the post, with objectives being above the learning outcomes, as well as rewrite some learning outcomes for better clarity. I was also given some advice on how to achieve some of my learning outcomes. As well as library resources, I learned I can use articles, interviews and other music to help with my research.