Personal Project

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 Personal Project

Personal project plan:

For my personal project, i have decided to compose an song (heavily inspired by sludge metal bands like Acid Bath). If i've finished that and still have time I will create a music video to accompany. The reason why i have chosen to do this is to mainly focus on the improvement and display of my songwriting skills, but also to show my progress using a software like premier to edit footage to match the conventionality to my song.

In order to accomplish this i will need these resources: a studio (preferably C17a), a camera borrowed from the college to record my music video, an editing software (most likely premier), a hard drive, a session drummer and potentially a lead guitarist.

I want to play guitar, bass and record vocals myself and find a session drummer to play on my track.

Possible constraints

Time is going to be the hardest challenge for me to overcome, as i struggle to push myself creatively when i need to have music produced in a certain time frame.

Inspiration and research:

Sludge by definition -  a metal sub-genre based around playing slowly. Sludge is an onomatopoeia for the sound of very distorted, down-tuned guitars. *


After finding TABs for Acid Baths song, i found that most of their songs are down-tuned to C standard to give a grittier sound. The progression through a sludge metal song consists of frequent tempo changes

Creating the foundation of the song:

Guitar
In order to achieve a sludgy, heavy sound i down-tuned my guitar to C standard (C F Bb Eb G C). The main riff for the verse mostly consists of simple string bends on the F string and the C string ringing out to add thickness to the sound.

TAB:
I've made a placeholder for the chorus, as it may be subject to some change. At the moment, it just follows the same root notes as the verse just as a power chord.

TAB:

Drums
As i am wanting a heavy sound, I've asked Aiden to be my session drummer for this project






Citations

* - https://razorcake.org/one-punks-guide-to-sludge-metal-by-angus-wonder-of-it-all/

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