Fresh off the back of his recent top 10 hit, Tinchy Stryder popped down to the project studio's to lay some bars with none other than Ruff Sqwad's finest Fuda Guy.
It was a heavy session but unfortunately nothing that we are allowed to give ya to hear.However,we wish him good luck in his future work - his current success couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!
Support the cause by buying his current single Take me Back ft Taio Cruz and what we do have are some pics of him in studio below!!
Finally we have a copy's of the hard work completed by the young people of Kensington & Chelsea that completed the summer Smile projected hosted at new media company YCTV's base.
The project was set to engage young people between the ages of 13-19 in Kensington & Chelsea to provide creative, constructive activities for them during their summer holidays. Special thanks goes to Derek @ Rugby Portobello Trust and Erin @ YCTV who sought funding to put the program together.
The theme for the course was to look at what makes the young people smile, to help spark some enthusiasm for those that may be surrounded by negative outputs in their day-to-day life.
Over the first 2 weeks of August, the Gold Seal team set about providing a producer and engineer who would help the young people capture their ideas musically, learning some of the practices required to create a track for them to write to and eventually record vocals. Needless to say, the young people set about working hard and 3 great tracks were created with vocals to inspire peers and demonstrate the practices required to complete this kind of task.
Check the final videos out below and see what hard work accomplishes!!
For details on projects similar to this please check the website or call the office today on 020 8743 0009 for a full assessment and exclusive program.
For those of you just getting up to speed on some of the lingo, sampling is the process of recording sound/audio onto a storage device that will allow you to manipulate and edit the final sound accordingly. To keep it simple and make it easy to identify its the basis of these sped up vocals that appear in a lot of music today. Its also a really useful tool for those who struggle with writing music or hear something and want to remix it as you can just record something and then use it in snippets to then make your music from.
If your into sampling and want to catch a few extra tips and tricks check out this guy BOON DOC and see how he uses the MPC 1000 to capture his favourite drums sounds and old skool soul artists to make some new fire for the new skool. I've recommended him and his tips and tricks for over a year to all my students, so have a look at my favourtie vids below and check his myspace here and his you tube page here.
Check his live drumming skills in this clip
He then adds a band around him and his drums.
Check out the rhythm weaver too, he uses the MPC 2500 but is very crafted in the samples he chooses:
EKLiPZ is a beast in the making too, check him out at his You tube right here.
Finally a must see for the old school hip hop heads and production geeks - Dead Presidents is put together again for you all with producer Ski Beatz
MUSICAL MAESTRO: RYAN TEDDER
This guy is unbelievable, there are so many styles to choose from that he covers not to mention writing music that sounds like it should be a sample itself. I found him randomly on a your tube search about 6 months ago and I'm hooked.
He is a classic example of how using musical scales and chords makes simple but effective music. The more you get into music the more you should really look at what makes a musician a musician and how to apply those skills in a technology environment. All of his music he lays a simple basis and then uses the correct chords and scales accordingly to add layers. Finally he puts the icing on the cake with the drums or simple melodies. Check out these vids for some inspiration and his full you tube page is available here.
Other top producers worth checking online are as follows:
Unfortunately and to remain honest for our followers, I will hold my hands up and admit that I am a little biased with the urban producers, however, for a more informative overview of how to use an mpc check here, similarly for some cool musical tips check here and type music in the search, they cover everything from writing music to preparing a home studio, mixing, mastering, promoting your music and learning to DJ.
In the next few posts we will give you the Gold Seal golden tips around similar subjects with some footage to reinforce what is being taught and to help all learning styles. For those that want to improve their music writing skills and keyboard skills check this clip too, you may need to do some additional research using google etc into chords and scales to fully understand it but it helps you to get the picture.
OK, so just to let you know what has happened over the years, 2004 we finish building the studio and open some local community workshops for people in Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea to check out the new facilities. The workshops are a huge success and we begin working with London's largest homeless charity St Mungos. DJing and music production goes down a huge success and more workshops spiral from here reaching 5 other st mungos sites. We register as an independent college and open as an AQA unit award scheme centre developing specific units to cover Reason, FL studio, Akai's mpc and djing units supported by Stanton. There is a huge uptake from local youth offending team in Kensington and Chelsea with help from top UK music producer Skillioso. Word spreads fast and we begin working with Southwark, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Westminster as well. Our reputation for being peoples people grows and we begin work with TCW in brick lane and are invited to host the MIM music stand at Plasa and London Calling. Workshops go from strength to strength and we have some top achievers gaining a range of qualifications with some great statistics generated for our young offenders. 66.7% dont reoffend and 75% of those remain in full time education. We begin help Southwark install a mobile music studio set up at their base in south London with huge uptake and some great workshops that have followed since. Top UK DJ One Samurai and Jump Off host Ben Scarrs join the team to deliver workshops. See below Samurai with UK urban act Sway at Childrens trust NCH workshop in west Drayton. Our undercover act 3Face comes to the limelight and starts to help with vocal workshops with some of our top students. Work with our homeless client base spreads and we begin working with Singles Homeless Project in Kings Cross delivering DJing workshops. DJing specialists Stanton help us purchase and install an mp3 Djing package for Haggerston Youth Inclusion Project. One Samurai helps with the open day and top Grime DJ, Kiss 100's Logan Sama comes down to help close the 24 lesson course. We have a busy Summer featuring at the south London connexions open day, hosted at top London Club Minstry of Sound. The Gold Seal project stand features top Grime producer and Hoodstars CEO - Werewolf helping all that enter with FL studio production. The stand is the most attended stand and interest for the borough begins to flourish. We are also invited to Hammersmith & Fulham's Urban Arena held at the Linford Chistie stadium where young hoodstars MC Nightmare/Nitro joins us to help give some music skills back to the local community. The stand is heavily attended all day and the word of the Gold Seal Gospel spreads again. October 07 sees top UK urban acts Wretch 32 & Bashy help open Richmond Adolescent Resource Team's Strathmore centre studio that Gold Seal have helped advise and fit for young people. November approaches and Wretch 32 returns to help open the new music suite at Kensington & Chelsea's Rugby Portobello Trust. Christmas is upon us and for the 2nd year in succession the stats for our work with young offenders remains at 66.7% for those who don't re-offend and again 75% of those stay in full time education. The start of a new year and we begin working with Haggerston Youth Inclusion Project again, this time delivering some music technology courses that help young people to learn about making some beats and recording some vocals. We progress into march and the project begins to conclude the work with specialised education centre, St Marks DPU. Gold Seal engage 3 young people and issue qualifications to young people that have never engaged in any form of education since the age of 10. Sadly we loose young person Jay Tamer who was tragicly passed away in a car accident. Our thoughts remain with his friends and family and may he rest in peace. We also begin working with Holborn Community Centre helping young people increase their leisure activities during half term activities. The summer period beckons again and new courses begin with Richmond Adolescent Resource Team at the Strathmore centre. The course holds new talent and welcomes the old talent in an open mic session to get the ball rolling again.
New courses funded by PAYP are put in place to help young people involved in crime and poor living conditions begin at the Rugby Portobello Trust, where 9 of the most motivated and dedicated students went on to achieve 3 units in music production and recording vocals. As the summer calls, Haggerson Youth Inclusion Project are set to begin some more DJing workshops again and Gold Seal bring down top UK 1xtra DJ DJ B, to help set the standard and have a question and answer session for the boroughs budding young DJ's. As autumn 2008 is upon us, Gold Seal send top grime acts Jammer and Bless Beats to perform for the Strathmore Centre, as part of their celebrations for Black History Month. Workshops continue to spring up left right and centre and we are proud of the work that we do to help make a difference to those who need it.
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