This week I continued my Senior Project, 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 Chapters 4, 5, and 6 done in the tutorial as well as publish a minimum 2-minute long song with pre-recorded loops, using what I have learned. and any techniques I have acquired on my own.
This week I continued to re-learn 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. It also allowed me to build a few ideas out of nothing.
So far I have a really intense intro for a future song and I completed my song this week. As I was gone on Wednesday I did not have quite as much time to perfect this weeks song as I would have liked.
Today I turned finished Chapter 6 which was on my deadlines today and turned in a 2:17 song.
If I am able I will work ahead this next week knowing that I will be gone on Friday next week for a Jazz competition. In my initial planning, I did account for this, but I would rather be ahead than behind in case I end up traveling with the pep band to state the following week. By working ahead I hope to compensate, or at least be in a better position should that take place.
I feel like this week went well, just like last week when 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 the songs I worked on this week. I did a lot of editing on the sound on it just like last week, although these are not as thorough as last weeks was. I initially started two separate songs but ended up combining them today. The transition isn't what I hoped it would be and I wish I had more time to work on it.
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