Jacob's Songs About Hurt

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I have chosen to shift my theme for the rest of this creative practice blog to resilience. I think it is much more in line with the scope of practice as we have learned it so far to focus not on our hurt, but how we are capable of overcoming it. I also think this theme is a little more open in terms of songs I think fall under the theme. I have also chosen to stop aiming to produce a whole song a week. It just is not reasonable to expect such results when I am still learning how to use these tools myself. So this week for example is just the laying the foundation and introduction for the song. In working on this particular track, I have had to listen much more intently, as well as become more familiar with piano rolls as they appear in Soundtrap. Piano rolls are just another way of fine tuning each track, and I find it much better for fine tuning drum parts than the BeatMaker tool I used in a previous blog entry. For this particular snare drum part, I laid down the basic sixteenth note...