This week I began a Senior Project. In addition to keeping a daily log of what I have done.
I planned my Senior Project to learn more about GarageBand and how to create songs through it. I am using a Video Tutorial Playlist from Lynda.com titled GarageBand '11 Essential Training with Todd Howard.
This week my deadlines were that I need to have the Intro, Chapters 1, 2, and 3 done in the tutorial as well as publish a minimum 2-minute long song with pre-recorded loops, using what I have learned.
This week I re-learned my way around GarageBand, this time learning it the proper way instead of just figuring it out as I messed around. Knowing where shortcuts are and where different sound abilities and stuff is allowed me to expand on and create a real version of the song I envisioned, from one I had already started.
Today I turned finished Chapter 4 which isn't on my deadlines till Monday and turned in a 3:34 song.
I worked ahead this week knowing that I will be gone on Wednesday next week, which in my initial planning, I did not account for. By working ahead I hope to compensate for that.
I feel like this week went well, although I discovered that the guy in the tutorial uses real instruments he plugs in to the computer and I can't do that. Therefore I can't do most of the exercise files. This freed me from some assignments and allowed me to work ahead which has been nice knowing I will be missing some class days in the coming weeks. I'm really glad I was able to learn this.
Below are a few screen captures of my song from this week. I did a lot of editing on the sound on it.
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