The Man I Love - George and Ira Gershwin

Shirley Manuel  is a Pianist, Guitarist, Keyboardist, Artist and Western Music teacher, an Associate of the Trinity College, London (Piano).
Shirley set her hands on the Piano at the age of 5 and has since then ventured into Indian classical singing, guitar.
She is the Assistant Director at the Rebecca Music Academy providing training in Classical Singing, Piano, Guitar for     more than 10 years.
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Shirley Manuel playing "The Man I Love" composed by George and his brother Ira Gershwin.

Performance at Mazda Hall, Camp, Pune, India.

Origin: 1924 score for the Gershwin government satire Lady, Be Good as "The Girl I Love"

First Appearance : 1927 anti-war satire Strike Up the Band.

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Little Jinder – “Youth Blood” (12th Planet & Flinch Remix) Song Analysis

A guest written blog post with the Talented Shirley Manuel can be found at my new website.

Song Introduction:

This strophic form song has a recurring rise and fall theme contributing to the contrast in its sonic foundation, it
begins with synths and some pitch varied toms. (The intro incorporates the use of an ostinato and then changes slightly)
The kick overpowers the synth (pad) via a sidechained compressor effect. (The intro is a mix between the genres of Trance and House groove.

The use of strategic silence, which gives you a pull back feel (feeling of a ray light getting brighter slowly) followed with the vocals -
“I use my youth blood to get through the night”  ... Cont. Reading

Side - chaining in Ableton Live 8

In this tutorial I will be explaining how you can get a side-chain effect by using the stock Compressor plug – in provided in Ableton live 8. Side-chaining is used by producers to achieve multiple effects and or to bring out a certain instrument / frequency based on another input. Sounds confusing? It’ll get really simple in the following steps:
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Work in progress

Work in progress
This is a song in progress, I did most of this on my flight back to india from singapore. You're insights are welcome !

Production Paper #1

Introduction:

Deciding what I wanted to produce was quite a time consuming task for me. I wanted to include all the elements including audio, video, post-production for audio in this project. To make a plan was essential for me. My aim was to integrate all of what I had learnt into the semester 4 production.

I wanted to make use of the most of the resources that were available to me, making use of as many microphones placed at as many positions as possible based on books regarding the same as guideline. I took into consideration that it is always possible to remove something from what I have than to not have something.