This week has been absolutely crazy!  I got sick, got into fights…wow!  I took this week off from my workout plan to recover a little bit.  It hasn’t been a good week for my music either.  Just haven’t been able to sit down.  I’ve been in kind of a funk I guess.  I’ve been working a bit on my lyric writing, and so far, its not going well.  I actually used to really enjoy writing poetry and such when I was really younger–but as a young man growing up its not really a “cool” thing to write poetry.  What I didn’t realize at the time is none of that really matters, I should have done what I wanted to do and not worry about what other people think.  I am still struggling with this today (as most of us do to some extent) but I hope to completely break free of that one day!

I did work on one track in particular that is really starting to shape up.  I hope I have one verse written in the next week or two to record over it to see how it is.  I don’t know if I will try singing or rapping a verse, but we’ll see!  I’ve started my writing process a little bit so we’ll just go from there.

My plan is to actually spend a lot more time reading.  Novels, novellas, poetry, plays, etc. whatever.  TV is just destroying my mind.  Thats not what I should be doing when I am looking to kill some time.  I don’t think TV is completely bad.  I enjoy an episode of the Office or what have you every once in a while but really, I shouldn’t be watching so much of it.

Anyway, here is “Beat 3″ version 2.  Subtle changes, but very good ones!

Mikey & Ronnie – Beat 3 version 2

Let me know what you guys think!  Your feedback (negative or positive) is extremely welcome.  ESPECIALLY when I start throwing my vocals in.

By the way, if you guys don’t know who Ronnie is, he is a good friend of mine here in Hawaii.  We’ve been doing the beat thing a lot together and we make a great team.  I look forward to working with him more.  He’s very musical and I don’t think he knew that before this week.  I really feel like we can go somewhere.  We kind of want to have a name for our group, if you guys can think of anything for us let me know!  I especially want something when we start releasing these tracks.

Enjoy!

Got two tracks done today.  First one has been an idea of mine for a long time now.  Its still not fully done (none of these are anyway) but its still pretty nice for a first raw go at it.  I have a lot more ideas coming up soon so I’m excited to keep doing this.  I will only probably be doing maybe one track during Monday-Friday.  Perhaps even one day I will only be tweaking another track to perfection.  Only time will tell!

My diet and fitness plan is going extremely well.  I am now starting to gain weight again, but my body fat percentage is dropping.  I’m eating 5-7 meals a day now.  Honestly, 5 isn’t enough.  I should be eating 6, and 7 on a really good day.  I will continue to try harder but it is actually very difficult to eat all day like that.  It really stimulates fat loss though.  I suspect within 2-3 weeks I will be very happy with my body fat percentage and I may even be able to drop a day of cardio (currently doing 3).  Tomorrow is my upper body day and I am thankful for that.  I love upper body days!

My main goal this week is to practice my singing lessons a lot more.  I’ve been slacking off.  I need to set aside an hour each day doing that.  I honestly have no excuse not to!  I’m gonna try and apply for a few jobs this week but I am being too picky.  I figure why not?

This week also I am going to begin the writing process for a lot of these songs, lyrical wise.  Mostly hooks and chorus lines at first but I will begin to construct rhyme schemes for these songs.  I am so excited to finish producing them!  At this rate I should have a 10-12 track mix tape ready by 2011.

Anyway, without much further delay, here are the results of my work today.  Ronnie has been helping out too and its been great!  We’re a wonderful team.

Mikey – Queen Beetz 4.4.2010

Mikey – Track 2 4.4.2010

Pumped out two different kinds of beats today. Nothing too complex, but really feeling the second one today. Interesting to see what tomorrow may bring!

Mikey – Track 1 4.3.2010
Mikey – Track 2 4.3.2010

Hope you enjoy them!

Worked on one track in particular yesterday.  Didn’t get much done, but I am still learning.  I switched to a new program called reason–its a lot better than fruityloops and the stuff it creates sounds a lot less childish and cheesy.  So far I love it!  Way more complicated but its extremely powerful.  Picked up another program for vocal mixing.

Here’s what I have for today.  Just a simple little beat.  Learning drums is the hardest part in this so far! Once I get that down I know pumping out tracks will be somewhat easier. Anyway, here it is:

Mikey – Track 4.2.2010