Senior Project. Weekly Update: Week 3

3/6/14
This week I continued my Senior Project, keeping a daily log of what I have done. Normally I would post this tomorrow but I will be gone all day for a Jazz Band Competition at Pitt State. 

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 7 and 8 done in the tutorial. I managed to get ahead and do part of Chapter 9. Because I was ahead I took some time and did a few things for other classes. 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. I went back and edited a few very minor things in the songs I had previously created. 

Today I turned continued in part of Chapter 9 which isn't due until Monday.  Its's been nice being able to be a little ahead.

I feel like this week went well, just like the last two weeks. The first week 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 have been missing some class days lately and because I don't know if we are going to State for Band next week. I'm really glad I was able to do GarageBand for my senior project.

I would normally include a few screen captures of the songs I have been working on, but as I do not have any that are new, I didn't really see the point in it. I will have some next week.