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D8 Skills #104 & D9 | Unit E | Ella Steel | Production Progress

D8 Skills #104 & D9 | Unit E | Ella Steel | Production Progress

For one full week, I've been isolating because of Covid-19. This has meant I've needed to postpone all my plans including recording a singer (paid), recording for Andy Ford, recording Northoad, recording & producing a song for a singer/songwriter, and meeting with the CEO of Hot Radio.

I've made the most of it by making a lot of progress with Ella Steel's song, Understand (Blog #1). Here is everything so far:

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Understand, Ella Steel | Demo
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I have never composed and produced string arrangements before, so I've tried a lot of things that sounded awful and deleted them. I've found that this is actually a great method for developing skills in a certain area.

I've also been doing some research on YouTube such as watching some videos by Dan Keen like this one: