Song for Act 5 Scene 1

Smoooooooooooooooooth Jazz

This is my first song on garage band for the Music with Technology course.

The instruments used in this song were:
steel acoustic guitar
sub synth bass
hip hop kit

This song was made with simple chords while the arpeggiator made each note play at a different time while there is a simple beat and a bass line that consists of 6 notes.

Task 1

I made two different chord progressions consisting of 4 different chords, which were all played by the piano.  I then copied the lowest note of each chord which ended up as the bass line.  I created a drum beat, which I copied and created a bass line out of.  The lead guitar part is each note of the chord being played separately.

Garage Band Task 2

My goal was to create a song using nothing but sounds you could hear in a fast food restaurant.  In the process, i found some great ways to make beats and using sounds around me.  Then I filtered and edited each sound to make it fit in appropriately with the sounds around it.  The challenges were to finding a structure for the musique concrete.  This is my first musique concrete so I wasn't sure if making it a bit repetitive would sound good or not.  I tried adding a beat similar to the one at the beginning to the end, but it didn't sound very good.  I decided to change the words at the end so it won't sound exactly the same as the beginning.  I am happy with my final piece because I learned how to filter and edit sounds recorded by myself.

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