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This is more the confident diction I was talking about having consistently. For processing your vocals, you want to see if you can get some sort of pop filter so those breaths and b and p or f syllables don't blow into the mic, and you'll want to manually remove or fade your in and out breaths where you have silences in the recording, as well as between phrases. Basically anything that isn't you speaking. De-essing is another thing but if you don't have the money for fancy plugins or want to work really hard on tuning them, manually lower the volume on the s's so they don't blow out of proportion when you apply compression.

The beat is simple here but it works. I think you could apply some more modulation to the arpeggio to give it some breath, lower it slightly in the mix, and bring up your percussion, keeping in mind that hihats naturally stick out as the highest frequencies, and get a good sound. You can also try writing your melodic phrases first as 4 bars, and varying them on every 8 and 16th bar respectively.

It's hard to write out what I mean, but producer tutorials on YT are good for that. Myself, I write my fullest part of my hook first as 4 or 8 bars, copy and paste. Then I will edit the first half of that for bar 4 (or 8) so it transitions naturally and doesn't sound like just 4 or just 8 bars repeated. You will naturally write your first part of your production the strongest, so it makes sense to have that as the last half of your hook and edit the first half to lead into that, if it makes sense. If I double that section for a longer hook, I take the same principle and edit the new first section. If you look at Song for my mama on my audio, though that song suffers from the extreme hihat volume problem I always complain about (because I was still learning mix LOL) I applied that concept there, and also Listerine (there's an instrumental for that, so feel free to send me some spit and I'll go reopen the project file lol)

Now that I think about it I was supposed to do that for @CyberDevil but I got caught up in a bunch of crap at work and punked out on mixing because I was just having so many issues figuring out my software. Oop.

Think I used the same composition method for Boy Lookin Like a Barbie.... which also has lead hihats LOL

I say all that because this sounds like a short freestyle that could easily turn into a full song with a hook. I'd like to see you maybe compose a hook and perhaps get some more verses in. 1:30 is about the length I would expect from a short YT video or interlude on an album, but this has a full intro.

Keep it coming anyway. Hope some of this helps!

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1 min 37 sec
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