Aug 9 (edited) • General discussion
Deliverables?Schedule?Due?
Hello everyone. When we say, “I’ll make a song,” it actually means a huge list of things that need to be completed. From the initial idea and arrangement all the way to recording, mixing, mastering, artwork, and release. Do you have some kind of project management system for your music projects? Life gets in the way. We step away from a project for a few days or weeks, and when we finally come back to it, do we really remember where we left off, what decisions we made, what still needs to be done, and what we were planning to do next? I’m starting to realize that making music is also about managing the project itself. Don't we have to become a professional project manager for our own projects? That's another hat to wear on top of being songwriter, producer, mixing and mastering engineer. But how do you manage your music project?
"I'll make a song" and we discover:
- maybe I should change the chorus
- maybe I should add strings
- maybe I should design the bass
- maybe I should change the kick
- maybe I should rewrite verse two
- maybe I should add guitar
- maybe I should have another version of mixing
- maybe I should have three versions of masters
Suddenly one month turns into six months.
What's behind "I'll make a song":
- Demo production: key, tempo, melody, lyrics, structure, arrangement, groove, mood.
- Vocal recording and editing: comping takes, removing unwanted noises and frequencies, timing correction, pitch correction, sibilance control, breaths, gain consistency.
- Auditioning sounds/sound design: kick and bass relationship, other instrumentation.
- Mixing and mastering: foundation first, final limiter for foundation, vocal processing and spatial effects, other instrumentation around vocal. Just to capture a few...
It turns out we make thousands of decisions, so how to manage such complex music production project? What really helps here? Due date? Braking down the whole project by manageable deliverables? Scheduling? And how about for growth like tracking issues, decisions made, and documenting lessons?
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