I decided to create an instrumental revisiting my attributes exercise I did with the J Dilla beat. I found a record in my collection which was a soul type of record that felt really nice at the start. I played around with it, doing similar techniques I had read in the 33 1/3 book. Using and chopping the drums within the record and allowing the production to work around that.
Then I did the more chopped-up style that was apparent in this record.
After this response to the attributes exercise, I think I need to move forward and finish 99% of the beats by the end of this week. Start with vocals next week. Move with reading and more thinking about what I’m doing critically.
I want to plan a drum session recording. And explore this idea of creating digging, rapping and using vocals, turntablism? A few journals. And then finish and finalise. It feels that we are approaching the halfway point