For our second project we chose to make a whole album production, including a photo shoot and an original song. We wanted to do this project because I wrote an original song and I wanted to release it on a full album. Also, Devon wants to become a professional music engineer and so recording an album would be great experience. To make a full album we recorded four new songs including one original and added these recordings with the best songs i recorded last year. I am becoming a professional music artist. Throughout the project, we focused on the big musical ideas of expression, innovation, and craftsmanship.The first song we chose to record was “Time of your life.” This song expresses a time in someones life when everything doesn’t seem to be working out, but knowing that they will get through it. I created an innovative cover of this song by having a different guitar pattern and signing it a bit differently than Billie Jo Armstrong. I focused on craftsmanship by making sure I stayed on key with voice, making sure my guitar was in tune, and making sure i stayed in key with my voice and guitar. The second song was called “Fireproof”, by One Direction. This song expresses a love that is undying and will never be broken by any outside forces. This was the first ever acoustic version of the song so it was much different from the original song that One Direction recorded. I had to come up with my own strumming patterns for the song and i had to make sure it fit with the melody and tempo of the song. This in itself made it innovated and showed good craftsmanship.  The last song we did was called “Collide” by Howie Day. I decided i wanted to do the acoustic version of this song, because i knew i could do more with making it innovative and fit it better with my voice. This song is again a love song, like Fireproof, but this is more about two people coming together. The last song we did was an original that i wrote with a close friend of mine. My friend gave me a poem which she thought could easily be turned into a song. I had some struggles at first but in the end i wrote a song that i am extremely proud of and I can’t wait to show everyone the work that i put into it. 

During phase one, we chose which songs she would like to learn and record for the album as I experimented with garageband and logic. 

During the second phase, we did a photoshoot for the album and began recording the songs in the studio. 

During the third phase of the project, we did some re-recording and editing and finally put the album songs into iTunes.