How To Build A Song Stephen Shehan

After listening to the first arrangement I was dissatisfied. It didn't come together the way I heard it in my head, especially the use of the hook was not particularly effective.  This second arrangement is much better.  It goes to show you that you should never settle if you think you can do better.

This took a bit longer than expected.  I was distracted by the purchase of a new guitar, which I needed to set up and also find a respectable sound for it through my amp. And some really weird issue with one of the audio production programs I use.

However, with that said, I had the arrangement pretty much together for about two weeks.  Now I will move to the recording process, building the song piece by [piece.

In this episode I go through how I wrote this particular song building it part by part.

This podcast is the introduction to what this series, "How To Build A Song" is about.  I briefly explain what I will be doing and how I will be doing it.

The rest of this series takes you through the entire process of composing to recording a song.  It begins with getting the very first ideas of a song and explains step-by-step, with real examples, of the process of composing a song part by part, then recording that composition, and finally mastering the recording.

I will be playing to the ideas I'm working together into a completed composition. This will be done by playing yo the very first ideas recorded, and then explain the process of building the completed song (the composition).

Next, I will use that composition to demonstrate how a song is built into a finished recording, and finally mastered.  Though this process I will explain how to start the recording process, how to use the software, and how to transform a basic composition into a completed recording, finishing with the mastering process.