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Bradley Johnson

Vocalist - Composer - Sound Engineer



I have always been interested in music since an early age. My mam used to listen to Linkin Park, Papa Roach and similar bands, I really enjoyed the music and used to sing along all the time. My first music obsession was Bon Jovi when I was in primary School. As I got older, I started to discover new music and I discovered Atreyu in year 7 and I was hooked on heavy metal. I was constantly searching for heavier bands. I was searching on YouTube for new music, and I found Motionless in White and for 2 years I was obsessed, and I listened to them every day exclusively. I realised I preferred the songs that were melodic and had clean vocals on the chorus with screams on a songs verse. 2017 I was told Chester Bennington had killed himself and I at first did not know who he was until I was told he was the lead singer to Linkin Park; I had listened to Linkin Park and Papa Roach a lot when I was in primary school, but I fell out of touch with them for years. I listened to Linkin Park for the first time in years and I immediately realised I was listening to the greatest band of all time; Chesters's vocals were insane. The roots of my inspiration stems from Atreyu, Motionless in White but Linkin Park are what got me interested in vocals. Recently I have been listening to Korn, as good as they are they cannot beat Linkin Park.  

My music is influenced by Korn and Atreyu but lyrically Chester's writing style influences me. I love Nu-metal I'm learning how to create it similar to Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory. My lyrics are sombre but lately they have been slightly political and more similar to Chris Motionless. 

Chester Bennington's lyrical prowess usually relates to teenage angst, substance abuse and depression, he sometimes has a resolution such as Breaking the habit, the chorus changes at the end with a victory for him. He sometimes doesn't win, the song Crawling ends with "confusing what is real". My song "Crushed under anxiety" doesn't end with a resolution but I have an unfinished song similar to "Leave out all the rest" by Linkin Park.

here are two videos of the band I recorded at College For the Monkees song I operated the desk and Cubase, For Deceptacon I set up microphones.

This recording was just a three piece with Jowe playing drums and singing we had to be careful of spill with this.


This was the first recording by the pop the video is synced to a studio recording.


 Here are some composition ideas, my music is directed to anyone who is interested in rock and metal music.


When Looking for funding a good place to start is  The Prince’s Trust is a good place for me to start because they are an organisation to helps people from age 11-30 to get jobs, education, or training. I want to be able to sing and scream so I would be able to get lessons with the money from The Princes Trust. Within the college, I can get voice lessons whilst I'm on my Music Tech course, I can also find like-minded people who are interested in creating music. I have worked with the Music Practise students to familiarise myself with recording a band using Cubase and a mixing desk.

Some of my Socials.

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Potential Clients

Identifying potential clients  

Potential clients when working in the music industry include other professional musicians, producers, A&R representatives, and fans. Responsibilities a musician must practise are training and practising, turning up to rehearsals prepared on and time looking after instruments and being able to learn new music quickly. Composer or songwriters must work to a deadline, work with the performer, compose a song or some music. Music Directors execute clear instructions, set the tempo, guide the band, relaying ideas to the performers and scheduling rehearsals. Live performance roles choose suitable microphones, positioning Look after equipment, operating sound checks. Roadies/local crew carry equipment, set up before events, look after and check the equipment, stage, and lights and pack away at the end of the event.

 

Create a list of your peers and what they can offer you and what you can offer them

In my class there is a mix of musicians and technicians we have previously worked with each other to record, perform and master compositions. My role is a technician and I have the responsibility of recording the band consisting of Lexie, Ayden, Joe and Leon. I have recorded them perform decepticon, Lexie is the vocalist, Ayden plays bass, Leon plays guitar and joe plays drums. The tech side consists of me, Richie, Ollie, Jack R and Jack L we all set the equipment up and record the band. For any personal projects I can use their skills and knowledge for guidance or to create a composition. I can personally give them help with recording anything and I am a lyricist so I could provide some lyrics.

External clients I have had help from Steve hoggart who has many years of experience in the industry, he has given me some guidance with my lyrics an example of this was that he could tell when I had written 2 songs within a week because they sounded similar, I have kept this in mind when writing any lyrics. He has given me an opportunity to be included in one of his songs with a vocal part. He also gave me some learning resources to correctly scream. 









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