NATURE OF THE PROJECT:  Write an original free-verse poem /  Record yourself reading it as a performance / Write and record an original piece of music on a single instrument.  The length is to be EXACTLY 60".  

Platform: PC
DAW: Audacity
Interface: Presonus AudioBox 22VSL
Mic: sE220a II C
Written and Recorded by Jack Mitts
Featuring "A Tender History in Rust" by Do Make Say Think. 

When the sun shines just right,
caught in the dust and leaves
that the wind stirs up as it explores the forest,
reflecting no man's thoughts feelings or actions,
he clutches his hand to his heart with a smile
for witnessing something truly holy
and wholly natural.

Assignment#01: Wholly Natural

NATURE OF THE PROJECT:  This assignment specifies that we adapt a harmonic structure from an existing song, in this case "That Thing You Do," and create a new song applying the harmonic structure from "That Thing You Do," but with an original lyric and melody.  (FYI, chord progressions are not copyrightable events.)

Gloria written, performed, and recorded by Jack Mitts.

Hardware and Software
Windows 7 OS
Pro Tools 10.3
PreSonus AudioBox 22VSL
sE2200a II C microphone
Fender Cyclone II
Fender Mustang Bass (Courtesy of STEVE!)
Guild D-40 Acoustic Guitar

Lyrics
Gloria, Victoria!
The Spring has sprung,
and life is illuminated.
You've been gone
for far too long,
but now I hear your song 
all around me
it fills and surrounds me.

Spring is the time
to be reborn,
so let us return to the love we had before.

Assignment#03: Gloria!

NATURE OF THE PROJECT: Assignment#4:  Record and produce a cover of an individually assigned song.  Use only one instrument and one voice.

A/B with "Lonely, Lonely" by Feist 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlIDp7Rk2Ag

"September" by Earth, Wind, and Fire
Cover recorded by Jack Mitts
Vocals: Ana Tomita 
Acoustic guitar: Jack Mitts

Hardware and Software
Windows 7 OS
Pro Tools 10.3
PreSonus AudioBox 22VSL
sE2200a II C microphone
Guild D-40 Acoustic Guitar

Lyrics:

Do you remember the 21st night of September?
Love was changing the mind of pretenders
While chasing the clouds away

Our hearts were ringing
In the key that our souls were singing.
As we danced in the night,
Remember - how the stars stole the night away, yeah yeah yeah.

Hey hey hey,
Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day

Ba duda, ba duda, ba duda, badu
Ba duda, badu, ba duda, badu
Ba duda, badu, ba duda

My thoughts are with you
Holding hands with your heart to see you
Only blue talk and love,
Remember - how we knew love was here to stay

Now December found the love that we shared in September.
Only blue talk and love,
Remember - the true love we share today


Hey hey hey
Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day.......there was a
Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - golden dreams were shiny days

Now our bell was ringing, aha
Our souls were singing.
Do you remember every cloudy day - yau !

There was a
Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day.......there was a
Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - golden dreams were shiny days

Assignment#04: September

Swing Low Sweet Chariot
 Recorded by Jack Mitts
Vocals: Ana Tomita 

Hardware and Software
Windows 7 OS
Pro Tools 10.3
PreSonus AudioBox 22VSL
sE2200a II C microphone

Assignment#05: Swing Low Sweet Chariot

NATURE OF THE PROJECT: This assignment specifies that we adapt a harmonic structure from an existing song, in this case "That Thing You Do," and create a new song applying the harmonic structure from "That Thing You Do," but with an original lyric and melody. (FYI, chord progressions are not copyrightable events.)

Gloria written, performed, and recorded by Jack Mitts.

Hardware and Software
Windows 7 OS
Pro Tools 10.3
PreSonus AudioBox 22VSL
sE2200a II C microphone
Fender Cyclone II
Fender Mustang Bass (Courtesy of STEVE!)
Guild D-40 Acoustic Guitar

Lyrics
Gloria, Victoria!
The Spring has sprung,
and life is illuminated.
You've been gone
for far too long,
but now I hear your song 
all around me
it fills and surrounds me.

Spring is the time
to be reborn,
so let us return to the love we had before.

*Assignment#03: Gloria!

NATURE OF THE PROJECT: Write an original free-verse poem / Record yourself reading it as a performance / Write and record an original piece of music on a single instrument. The length is to be EXACTLY 60".

Platform: PC
DAW: Audacity
Interface: Presonus AudioBox 22VSL
Mic: sE220a II C
Written and Recorded by Jack Mitts
Featuring "A Tender History in Rust" by Do Make Say Think.

When the sun shines just right,
caught in the dust and leaves
that the wind stirs up as it explores the forest,
reflecting no man's thoughts feelings or actions,
he clutches his hand to his heart with a smile
for witnessing something truly holy
and wholly natural.

*Assignment#01: Wholly Natural

NATURE OF THE PROJECT: Assignment#4: Record and produce a cover of an individually assigned song. Use only one instrument and one voice.

"September" by Earth, Wind, and Fire
Cover recorded by Jack Mitts
Vocals: Ana Tomita 
Acoustic guitar: Jack Mitts

Hardware and Software
Windows 7 OS
Pro Tools 10.3
PreSonus AudioBox 22VSL
sE2200a II C microphone
Guild D-40 Acoustic Guitar

Lyrics:

Do you remember the 21st night of September?
Love was changing the mind of pretenders
While chasing the clouds away

Our hearts were ringing
In the key that our souls were singing.
As we danced in the night,
Remember - how the stars stole the night away, yeah yeah yeah.

Hey hey hey,
Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day

Ba duda, ba duda, ba duda, badu
Ba duda, badu, ba duda, badu
Ba duda, badu, ba duda

My thoughts are with you
Holding hands with your heart to see you
Only blue talk and love,
Remember - how we knew love was here to stay

Now December found the love that we shared in September.
Only blue talk and love,
Remember - the true love we share today

Hey hey hey
Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day.......there was a
Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - golden dreams were shiny days

Now our bell was ringing, aha
Our souls were singing.
Do you remember every cloudy day - yau !

There was a
Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day.......there was a
Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - golden dreams were shiny days

*Assignment#04: September

This is a final project utilizing all of the skills I have learned through MRT 316 Intermediate Audio Recording. 

Written, performed, and recorded by Jack Mitts.

Hardware and Software
Windows 7 OS
Pro Tools 10.3
PreSonus AudioBox 22VSL
sE2200a II C microphone
AKG Perception 420 microphone
Fender Cyclone II
Fender Mustang Bass (Courtesy of STEVE!)
Guild D-40 Acoustic Guitar
Upright Piano

Lyrics
I was once a leaf
sitting high upon a tree.
I was pretty; I was green.
Then the season's change hit me.
I knew not what to do
when the sky, which once was blue,
turned to something that was new.

Cause everything gets darker
with a little shade of brown.
The leaves are on the ground.
I had fallen down.

And I was once a bird.
Every song and every word
that I spoke were all for her,
the girl who I adored.

But I was just a lonely bird
singing all my songs for her.
The seasons changed; she passed me by,

and everything gets darker
because she's not around.
The leaves were on the ground.
I had fallen down.

But now I've learned to live okay
by giving all my love away
to all that stays and all the change

cause the world is so damn beautiful
with little shades of brown.
The leaves are on the ground
sometimes you just have to fall down
to fly away.
So fly away.

Jack Mitts

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