McMillan Anthony Week 1 Project 1

Hello Classmates,

I stayed with a bluegrass feel this week but added a bluesy bass to it.  The Chords are C,G,F,G,C. Its going to sound silly but I like the slide in the bass and I felt a blues bass would set a tone for the simple bluegrass song.  Take care!

Tony

McMillan Anthony Week 2 Project 2

the chords are a simple C, G, Am, F progression with a simple drum best.  I figured start small and build upon it.  

Anthony McMillan Week 1 project 1

This week I decided to base my song on a song I wrote, incidentally on my CD, Called With me.  The Chords are slightly a mouthful.  The chords: Verse: F,C,G,Am (once) then F,C,Am,G (Three Times)  Chorus: C,G,Am,F and lastly the bridge: Am,G,C,F.  It took me a while to get the chord progression to work with the bass.  I'm starting to get the hang of that.  I added some percussion in the beginning to give it the acoustic feel with the piano, and to keep the rhythm drumbeat of the song.  I hope you enjoy the tune.  

McMillan Anthony Week 3 Rough Draft

Hey Everybody, This is the song I did "With me" from last week.  I stayed with the chord progression: Verse: F, C, G, Am, F, C, Am, G, F, C, Am, G, F, C, Am, G ( I,V,II, iii, I,V, iii, II, I,V, iii, II, I,V, iii, II) Chorus: C, G, Am, F (V, II, iii, I)  Bridge: Am, G, C, F (iii, II, V, I)   I liked the acoustic feel of the piano and the bass riffs so I kept those the same. The Percussion is used in the beginning to add some depth to the music as well. This is a song I wrote a year ago and put it on a CD.  the verse chord progression is slightly confusing but I think it really adds to the song. I wish everyone luck on the final.  

Tony McMillan

McMillan Anthony Week 4 Final Project

With this project, I felt the simpler the better.  I went with a standard drum beat, since we could only use bass,snare and high hat.  I made it a little pop jazzy with an organ.  The Chords are C,G,Am,F which would be I,V, vi,IV.  It's exactly 8 bars long and also in doing this I wanted it to be possible to take it any direction if it ties in with next weeks project :)  

McMillan Anthony Project 1

I used the same song from project 1 and added the bass to it.  The notes are still C,G,Am,F which would be I,V, vi,IV. I had an issue with the bass playing throughout but I'm out of time.  So next week I will need to set aside more time to work to fix the issue.  

McMillan Anthony Project 2

This is a simple song, Seems like everyone uses sound effects so I got as sound effecty as I could with this one. I hope you all like it, especially the end.  I used G,D,Em,C for the chorus and the dark verse I used D,C,Am,F. I wouldn't write lyrics to it but I think it went well.  The Romans to it are, I,V,vi,IV for chorus and V,IV,ii,VII.  I didn't want to go all VIIº with it.  The drums are a simple Bass, Snare and Hi Hat.  I added percussion to the tune, Cowbell, Tambourine and Shaker.  The sound effects are simple nature sounds and an applause for humor.  

McMillan Anthony Rough Draft

This is a continuation of the simple song of last week, I used a combination of nature, and southern music for the influence.  The core of the music being a pretty religious style and the nature sound effects to add emotion.  In my opinion, you can't have southern music with harmony and a good ole dirty slide guitar.  In my bridge, I had strings playing the 3rd and 5th of the chords and the slide loops (sliced) for a lead.   I hope you all like it, especially the end. I used G,D,Em,C for the chorus, the dark verse I used D,C,Am,F and the Bridge is D,C,Em,F to give it a slightly different feel and to brighten the dark sound.  If you listen to the bridge second time through going into the chorus if have a hopeful sound to it. The Romans to it are, I,V,vi,IV for chorus, the verse is I, VII, v, III and the Bridge is I, VII, ii, III. The drums are a simple Bass, Snare and Hi Hat. I added percussion to the tune, Cowbell, Tambourine and vibra-shake.  I added a shaker loop for the ear candy.  The strings have reverb added to the sound and the lead voice have a slight Delay added, a couple of place seemed over powering so I lessened the delay sound to bring out the echo intention of the effect. The sound effects are simple nature sounds and an applause for humor.

AnthonyMcMillan