Rob Grady

Multi-instrumentalist & Composer

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Singles Collection Teaser!

New Yeti’s Breakfast project! (YouTube secription pasted below for more details)

Here's a song explaining our newest idea! 

Following our release of 'New Chance', we've decided that we're going to write and release a further 5 singles over the coming months, and eventually release our first singles collection, which will be available on all platforms (including CD!). 

The collection will also have its own website with behind the scenes clips, song inspiration, lyrics, artwork and much more! 

 We've also made a 3 part Instagram exclusive explaining this idea further, which can be found at @yetisbreakfast (https://www.instagram.com/yetisbreakf...) 

 Stay tuned, hope you enjoy! 

LYRICS: - Singles collection one... (Yeti's Breakfast) 

Written in a range of styles... (Like band and acoustic) 

Through the months we'll post behind the scenes, and we'll reveal the artwork to our songs. 

We hope it's liked by all. Lost the moon is coming soon! - 

New Chance: https://open.spotify.com/track/7dWt1U... facebook.com/yetisbreakfast

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Other Lockdown Projects

I’m sure you’ve realised that most of what I’ve posted on here have been things I got up to back in lockdown. I wanted to start from there, because I feel that I’m still on the same creative line as I was when I was creating those projects, so I thought it would be best for context’s sake to post about them first before posting about any of my new projects (which are coming very soon).

Here’s some other stuff I got up to over lockdown:

‘Don’t Mind Me’ - The Joey Bill: https://fb.watch/1lU5clnfNE/ (I play drums in this band)

‘She Loves You’ - full Beatles cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpJWaGLIeDg

I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire - Yeti’s Breakfast Ink Spots cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzjeSz6RohQ&pbjreload=101

And more smaller micro projects! 

See ya soon with some exciting new stuff.

:) x

[gradyrobgrady]

New Chance - Yeti’s Breakfast

The first Yeti’s Breakfast single!!

We’ve also released it on streaming services (links below)

My responsibilities for this release were: vocals, piano, drums, trumpet, mixing.

Lyrics: 

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 Here again... Trying to stop the walls from falling. 

Here again... Trying to make you understand. 

Don't pretend... You know the end is calling. 

You try to ignore all the fear that comes your way, but you can't hide from the darkness you create. 

 You've gotta belive in a new chance, a better way. 

 Still, you try to ignore all the fear that comes your way. 

 Once again... You fall and you can't get back up. 

Once again... You're trying to understand it all. 

 Don't pretend... You know the end is calling. 

 Don't try to ignore all the fear that comes your way. 

You can't hide from the darkness you create. 

 You've gotta believe in a new chance, a better way. 

Don't try to ignore all the fear that comes your way. 

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-- Artwork by Phoebe Stewart Carter -- 

Cheers :)

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7dWt1UPIutnWG9uHuZD8mt?si=Kmi8LgUUSA2CY4wpnHanjA

Bandcamp: https://yetisbreakfast.bandcamp.com/track/new-chance

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-622109883/new-chance

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Zadok the Priest / Champions League Anthem

Performed by the Grady family!

Once I knew lockdown was ending, and I’d be moving back out of my family’s  home, I decided that I wanted to embark on a music project and get the whole family involved.

As the champions league was back, I found myself singing their theme tune around the house. As I am also a big fan of Handel’s Zadok the Priest (which the Champions League theme is based off of), I thought why not try and create a recorded arrangement that combines the two. 

(The Champions League is basically the European football club championships for those who didn’t know).

So that’s what I did. I ‘drew’ out an arrangement in logic using midi to give myself a crude sense of what the piece may sound like, and then started replacing the midi with real sounds until I had a full piece. After this was completed I mixed the project.

I had great fun recording the trumpet parts, and felt I improved my playing whilst doing so.

I divvied out vocal parts to my family - myself and my dad taking the bass and tenor lines, with my mum and sister taking the alto and soprano lines. A big thanks goes out to them all for going along with the project - it was so much fun recording and filming this! 

The whole project was completed and posted on the Champions League final day - 23rd August.

(When I was editing the video it sounded like my laptop was going to take off!). 

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The Magician Cover

Here’s a big collab! The first big Yeti’s Breakfast project. 

Yeti’s Breakfast is a songwriting duo I’m a part of with fellow musician Jeremy Burne, but this project was a cover of the song ‘The Magician’ by an artist Jeremy and I both love, called Andy Shauf. 

As we were in lockdown when completing this, we weren’t able to work together in person, so this project took multiple zoom calls, file sharing and more. I think both myself and jeremy must’ve had at least 10 different logic projects for this cover, as we really wanted to do the song justice.

We both had a lot of fun recording lots of instruments for this track. The credits are as follows:

Rob: Vocals, Backing Vocals, Drums, Cello, Trumpet, Electric Guitar, Mixing Editing. 

Jeremy: Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Ukulele Bass, Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute, Violin, Mixing.

Hope you enjoy :)

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World Beyond My Window

It's another project from lockdown!

This song was written during the national lockdown, and it quite simply came about through thinking about the world beyond my window. I mean this not just in the sense of looking outside, but also in the sense of thinking about the world outside the little bubble that I - and the whole country - were locked away in at the time. 

The song features birdsong and scenic footage that I captured in my garden, as over lockdown I found myself becoming transfixed by nature, and appreciating that it was completely its own world, and it was just beyond my window. 

The mixture of these two trains of thought about what the world beyond my window was greatly influenced my songwriting, and I’m glad I now have this song as a stamp in time as to how I was feeling during the lockdown. 

A big thanks goes to my mum for playing cello for this song, we had a great time recording it!

LYRICS: 

I look at the world through a lense, the cycle starts back up again.

There’s a world beyond my window, that I can’t see.

It makes me wonder... Is this all we can be? What we see?

They see the world from up above, you’d think that they’d have had enough.

Living free beyond the clouds, that I can’t see.

It makes me wonder... What we see.

I see the world stop in defence, they try to start it up again.

If there’s a world beyond my window, I don’t want to see.

It makes me wonder... Is this all we can be? What we see?

Beyond my window.

Beyond my window. 

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This song was one of the first uploads to the Yeti’s Breakfast youtube channel. You’ll be hearing much more about Yeti’s Breakfast throughout my feed.

:)

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Music with household objects

Around the house!!

This little video was made during the height of lockdown, and as I seemed to have an abundance of time on my hands, I found this project gave purpose to the hours I spent on it. 

To create this task for a music performance module at uni, I set up my laptop with a microphone running into logic, and also set up my phone to film on a tripod. I then started recording and filming myself hitting some household objects, as you may have guessed. 

After this, I took my new recorded sounds and started messing around with them in logic. I fiddled with EQs, reverbs, compression and pitches in order to manipulate my recordings into sounding (hopefully) nice together. 

I then chopped my sounds up and spent a fair amount of time placing them into logic to create a cohesive piece of music. 

(The photo below shows a screenshot of my logic session for this piece.)

Once I had mixed my project, I synced up my earlier recorded videos with their corresponding sounds within my piece of music, and made sure they were in line with their individual hit points. I then put all of these videos together using a split screen editing technique, and exported. 

Then I uploaded it!