Space

So fairly recently, I have wrote and produced a song called Space. This song took me less than a day to make and I have to say it was pure luck.

It all began with a loop on the nico baran – Exotic Vol. 2 One Shot Kit. Beforehand I had plugged my mic in and freestyled to a bunch of loops or melodies I made. Nothing was working out until I freestyled on that loop.

The beat is fairly simple. I just chopped the loop at certain times to give a DJ effect and I added a simple kick and snare pattern. The hi-hats are a bit complex, but they fit in well with the rest of the drums. The addition of the 808s was the real crème de la creme of the beat as it fit in real nice for the modern rap vibe I was going for. Overall, the beat took around 30 minutes to make, which is incredibly quick compared to my average workflow, though there was no mixing involved and it sounded like crap

When I freestyle for a song, I only freestyle the melody and flow. My demos sound shite because it’s mostly me mumbling auto-tuned melodies, and it was also the case for Space. Once I got the melody and flow, I saved the demo onto my phone and wrote lyrics to it. This process took me about an hour, but that is fairly quick for me.

Once I got my lyrics, I started to record the next day. This process took me nearly an hour and a half to do as I was sick that day. It had taken me 150 takes to finally finish the song as I am a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to my shitty vocals. After that, I passed on the stems to my incredible engineer, Dexter

When Dexter had opened the file, he was impressed with the work I had done and we instantly started working on the mix. We communicated through Discord as it had a handy screen share feature. Through Discord, we had shared ideas for vocal effects and in the end it all worked out. Without my engineer, Space wouldn’t sound as good as it would right now.

All in all, Space took me around 2 days to make, with the mixing process being the longest. As a small artist, I highly recommend investing in a skilled engineer or at least spend the most time in mixing and mastering your track as it is the difference between a hit and an average track.