Teach Me How To Dougie Music Project

Lab 4 project - music class

I think that it is very possible to build upon existing ideas while also adding your own touch to it. This is what i tried to do with this project. I picked the song "My Girl" by The Temptations because I am really into old soulful music and thought that this would be a fun one to add my own personal touches to it. I gave it a faster beat and picked up the speed a little. For each chorus, I had a tambourine in it and then as the other chorus came along, I tried to add something a little more each time to show the growth. My second chorus had a subtle beat and then the third chorus really picked it up with an out there beat. I think I kept the soul in the song, but made it different by adding in some more beats and faster tempo. I am still really struggling with matching everything up. For example, the snapping that was in the song did not seem to always match my drum beat, but I could not really figure it out on how to fix that completely. I worked with it for a long time, but this was the closest I could get to matching it all up. Garage Band is starting to get easier to use which is making these projects not as difficult to do!

Remix Lab 5 Project

I used music to affect the way listeners listen to my podcast but having really fun, upbeat music to start it off. Then when Monica would come in talking about Taylor Swift, I played an acoustic version of one of Taylor Swift’s song to also like set the mood of my conversation with her. I brought in the Taylor Swift right when she started talking because I felt like that was the right time. I tried my best with the fade in and fade outs at the right times, but I’m sure they could always improve a little. I downloaded music from Creative Commons and I used the songs "taylor swift - red instrumental/Karaoke (Enahnced Drums Remix)
by: thunderking999" and then I used "Martin Hall - All The Lovers [2010s Pop Music] by: Music Only NCS”. Some decisions that I had to make were what music sounded best at the beginning. I wanted something catchy that would reel the audience in and I think I was successful with that. I added a name and picture to everything like the directions said, but my URL just goes straight to my garage band so I am not really sure if I just uploaded it wrong or what. Overall, I think this project went pretty well. This had probably been my favorite so far because the whole aspect of it is very cool. 


Podcast Project

I thought it was really interesting everyones different approach to these projects. It was really cool how my group would notice little things about my approach to projects. I think that I could definitely be a little more detailed with my projects. I think that I do well with the projects, but I could pin point more specific details. I decided to revisit my podcast project. I actually really enjoyed this project, but after seeing the comments on this project, I decided to try and focus in on the little details more. Both comments mentioned my volume control so I decided to work with that a little. I made the music not so loud, so that the main focus was my talking. I also wanted to add in the clapping to, like I said, focus in on the details and do a little more. I liked the way this project sounded before, but it definitely sounds better now that I have worked with it a little bit. I really liked getting the critique on this project because it made me look at my project in a different creative way and I really like the changes that I made to it!


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