The first class project to be completed will be a combination of work produced in several separate assignments, edited and arranged into a full song.

Assignments working in Ableton have been and will continue guiding the class in creating various musical components: Drum Pattern, Bass Line, Sustained Comping, Rhythmic Comping, Melody.

Ideally, everyone has been successful in recording their work done on the assignments into one ongoing Ableton Project titled “MIDItracks_iLastname”. The goal is to continually be adding the work done in individual assignments to this project using Collect All and Save and creating updated Ableton “ALP” packs.

Following is a summary of how planned assignments would produce musical components that will be used together in song form for this assignment.

1) Drum pattern development, then a customization of an Impulse kit to play the drum content.

2) Bass Line development, then the customization of a bass preset sound through manipulation of Audio Parameters, including Automation.

3+4) Development of two “Comping” patterns based on contrasting styles, sustaining and rhythmic, which fit the stylistic characteristics of the Drum Pattern and Bass Line.

5) Composition of melodic content that fits with the above list of musical components.

Once the above list is developed you will plan an arrangement of the components to construct a song. The song will be recorded by playing Ableton Session content into Ableton Arrangement Record. The song doesn’t have to represent students’ most artistic ideas, but it should be planned to experience the process of recording Session content into an Arrangement Recording. In addition to including the five musical components presented through assignments (summarized in the list above) there are four additional criteria requirements.

1) The song should be between 2 mins to 3 ½ mins in length.

2) The song must use 3 instances of manipulating audio parameters of presets.

3) And the song must use 2 instances of automation. (criteria 3+4 can be combined)

4) The song arrangement must include at least 3 distinct sections, and total of at least 5 total sections (allowing for some sections to be repeated). For sake of this assignment, this section criteria will be based upon which musical components are being used at one time. An additional Intro/Outro is optional but should not count in this section criteria. The arrangement will be visually/textually charted and shared via a gSheet.

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