Turner - Senior Thesis

1. I typed the rest of my paper for the majority of class. It's still a little rough around the edges so I'll have to clean it up this weekend. 2. I made yet another beat for my always evolving EP. Going to really try to grind it out this weekend and finish two song because I'm getting close to my deadline!

1. I wrote a page for my midterm paper but I'm not sure if I like the direction it's going in. I think I need to focus more on my personal experience researching and creating my projects. Currently, I've mainly only explained my topic and wear I want to go with it. It works as an argument but I don't think a page long introduction is good for a 3-5 page paper. I think I'll cut it down by half and begin focusing more on my journey. I may also touch on things that I've accomplished before school started to give some more background about how I got to where I am now.

1. The whole class I worked on the last song on my EP. It's about halfway done and although it's the last song I'm working on, it's not the last song on the EP. I'm going to try to get the EP out during finals so I'm going to try to finish recording this weekend.

1. I finished the song I've been working on for the past week. I recorded yesterday morning and edited some of the vocals at home. Today I revisited the work I had done at home and was not satisfied so I restarted all of my mastering/mixing of my vocals. It took me about an hour to redo it all but now it sounds amazing. I watched a couple videos to guide me on how to edit my vocals and I took some notes and I've improved my normal way of doing it. 2. During the last 30 minutes of class, I started working on the third song of my EP. Carlos has provided 3 beats for my EP and I want to make sure I have more songs on it that I've produced compared to the songs that he's produced. I have to make two more songs and then write lyrics for four more songs.

1. Today I finished up the beat for the second song on my EP. I had trouble mastering it since this is the first time I ever really mastered my beat but I tried my best and it came out sounding pretty nice. It's one of the best ones that I've made probably. 2. I started writing lyrics for the song and decided to title it "Should've Known Better". I've written one of my verses and the chorus, I just need the second verse and the outro still. Hopefully I can record before next class so I can edit my vocals during thesis and finish up the entire song.

1. I applied to USC 2. After I applied to USC, I had all of my college stuff done so I worked on my thesis project. I continued working on the EP I'm dropping this month. Lately, I've been struggling writing lyrics to beats so I just played around making beats looking for inspiration. Still trying to get over the writing block.