Turner - Senior Thesis

1. I finished the rough draft for my thesis paper and had Ettesaf read over it. I used some of his feedback into consideration. 2. I finalized my concert on May 18th and communicated with a couple people who are promoting the show to see how the concert is going to go down. 3. I then continued searching for more judges.

1. I reached out to four more people about being one of my judges. I'm thinking of just going to a guitar center and asking people who work there if they'd be interest because a lot of producers on the internet aren't responding. 2. I continued working on my paper for a majority of the class. I cut out some fluff and expanded on some details that I thought needed to be fleshed out. 3. For the last five minutes of class, I uploaded my two most recent singles to Spotify/Apple Music/Tidal.

1. I contacted 5 more people to be my judge today and one of them responded during this class period. We talked over email for a bit and he said he could possibly come but not to lock him in yet. 2. Instead of working on my paper, I decided to work on some music since I have my upcoming concert in about a month and a half. I want to get about 2-3 more songs out by May 10th so I need to hustle! I didn't make anything I like really however, but I did find this BOMB producer on YouTube who sells his beat for only $20 and are free for nonprofit (soundcloud use only). Listening to his beats kind of make me feel like my beats are garbage but it's okay because I'm still learning and I have to remember that. 3. The song I'm going to release on Friday will most likely be my most played song ever since the beat is awesome and also includes a female artist on it. I don't want to get into the habit of using others' beats though because I want to continue expanding my sk...

1. I continued working on my thesis paper. I believe it's coming along pretty well. I'm about five pages in. I'm going to ask Mr. Correa to proof read it. 2. I also was contacted by a booking agency to perform a show on April 27th. However, it was in Forth Worth on a Friday night at around 11 pm. I declined because I don't think a lot of my peers would drive roughly 40 minutes to go see me perform that late at night. Luckily, the agent asked if I was available May 18th. I accepted this offer although its the same night as Townview prom. Most of my friends aren't even going to that so I decided to take it!

Today, I mainly focused on the song I'm releasing tomorrow. It was kind of difficult to focus since everyone around me was talking but it kind of forced me to get into a zone and black everyone else out. I cleaned up the song that I want to release and I started the artwork for it. I decided to start releasing my music on Fridays rather than Mondays so I can get more people to listen as I feel that people are more inclined to listen to a song on a Friday rather than a Monday. I also continued reaching out to different local artists in hopes of having them be one of my judges. So far, only my mentor has agreed on being a judge.

1. I contacted three artists in regards to being my judge for my presentation. I haven't received any response but one of them is my mentor so hopefully he can. 2.  I finished a song I started over Spring Break that will be releasing this Friday. Then I started working on a song that I want to release next Friday. I've changed my release days to Friday because I feel like more people will listen on a Friday. 3. Then I talked to the Marines recruiter.

Initially, I was going to work on my thesis paper all class, but I decided to play around with a couple of samples I found yesterday. I was only planning on making beats for about 30 to 45 minutes but then I got really immersed in my music and I lost track of time. I worked on one beat the whole class period and I think it's REALLY good. I'm going to record during TAG-IT so I can release a song this Friday. I decided to release this song on Friday rather than my usual Monday releases because although I like to release music on Mondays, people usually don't listen to music on a Monday because they're LAZY. So I think I'm gonna do Friday or Saturday night releases from now on.