Day 1 "The Beginning" By Ryan Mantel

 We started by getting straight to the basics: what is music, and what is music production? We all listed a definition of what music is, such as a storytelling art medium utilizing sound waves. To break the ice, we all talked about what made us fall in love with, as well as our first memory of music. Mine was playing a simple two-person version of “Heart and Soul” with my mom. Next, we differentiated a music engineer, a music producer, and a DJ. A quick video helped us understand the responsibilities of a producer past just giving their opinion on the music. 


Much of our work was in the afternoon with our teacher, Hiram. He has been DJing for 15 years and producing music for 13. He showed us all how to use his controller, as well as some of the remixes he made and posted to Soundcloud. This was our first opportunity to get hands-on with the equipment. We all had the opportunity to use the controller and transition from song to song. We finished off the day by choosing four or five songs that had similar BPMs so they would form a smooth transition. I got to finish off the day by spending around 20 minutes mashing up songs and trying new transitions. 


Being our first day, we were just introducing ourselves to music production and DJing. My favorite part was playing around with the DJ controller, as it was my first time, and it was much more fun and simple than I had anticipated. 

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