now it has it has it a guest that a few
of you in the audience tried to live a
double life
perhaps your researcher and a runner or
an architect and an author well for me
my double life is banking and music so
when I find that free moment I tend to
immerse myself in the music part you'd
even call it my form of meditation I
started producing a little over three
years ago the biggest challenge at first
was I'm not professionally trained in
any way I could barely play Old
MacDonald on the piano now I was trying
to write complex harmonic melodies so
let's just say the first year was
experimenting since having learnt the
core concepts though I've fallen in love
with the buzz of writing a song from
start to finish I particularly loved
writing the lead instrument that part is
I know just the real hook for me let's
take this trumpet as an example so I
know what you're thinking how do I fit
an orchestra to my tiny tooth and flat
well actually this is completely
artificial the instrument has been
created from scratch that combined with
some MIDI notes I've written gives you
the full sound anyway like I was saying
before I didn't take the music
immediately in fact I took took
technology a lot more and it wasn't
until my early teens that technology
music started to coincide for me and I
have very fond memories of my dad and I
taking cables from the home stereo
system downstairs up to that computer
sneaking around the house and
frustrating my mother in the process
listened to her knowledge they we were
doing it to rescue their favorite song
we'd found it on an aging vinyl we need
to rip it to the computer to repair with
bleeps and scratches
in fact that song was the song we danced
at their wedding to this day I don't
think I'll ever forget the lyrics the KC
in the sunshine back
so my only life is spent converting my
dad's CD collection as vinyl collection
to CD well we could have waited a couple
of years the professionals to do that
but where's the fun in that I think the
same applies to my modern-day experience
I find a great pleasure just getting
lost in the music I can spend a couple
of hours just working on a bass or
tweaking a guitar editing a vocal or
whatever it may be you know this is my
meditation after all but when you find
that perfect combination of sounds and
the song jump to the life the
satisfaction is immense all you want to
do is finish the track and take it out
to the club have a little listen to
something else so I didn't know much
about drumming so with a few YouTube
tutorials some sampled hats snares
cushon I could create this rhythm but
even more so take this little patterns
going on here
this is one of the simplest sound just a
basic sine wave however with the power
of this technology I can add more layers
I can filter it I can pitch it down and
I can compress it and we get a bass with
as you can probably guess my forte is
house music you're not big enough often
be criticizes repetitive and simple but
if you push past that kind of thought of
the four rhythm and really listen to how
elements are added and subtracted it
really generates the interest of the
track now you can probably understand
why a thousand person crowd can stand in
a wet and muddy field in the pouring
rain at a festival waiting for DJ to
build that single instrument up
regressively over an entire minute I'm
not going to do that now but why we'll
show is how adding removing a few
elements we can create simple breakdown
what I love about producing music is
that there's always something to learn
even the most seasoned of producers
still learning being a new instrument
synthesizer a tool or even a different
style music altogether the possibilities
are what you can learn Anthony's
together are literally endless you can
then take that production to the next
level you can bring it into the track
itself so for example the bass that we
have going on here I can open up the
filter bring it back in highs filter out
the rest of the track and it changes the
dynamic that's on completely but the
melody doesn't change it
well I've done a couple of hours on the
plane and a couple of hours in the
airport Conn files at home putting
together a completely new track now I
can it's quite right for you to just to
stop there
you know if you if you enjoy your track
that's the only recognition you should
look for
however if like me you want to share
those sounds then you can understand why
I like to post them online or even more
so why I love DJ seeing a crowd of
people on a busy Club with their hands
in the air dancing to your song is just
phenomenal now I'm going to give one
last demo I'm going to show how putting
a vocal in to try can really pull the
track together it can provide that
central hook and even more so it can as
the elements change around that vocal it
can change the impact of the voice and
you can even feel like it's changing the
intonation of the words
for just a few seconds then I forgot I
worked in finance did you thank you