Creating a song in ABA Form

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1 Creating a song in ABA Form I. Open up Garageband and choose new music project. II. Save your project to your folder on the desktop with your name on it. III. Open up the loop browser by clicking on the eye icon at the bottom left of the Garageband window. IV. Drag and drop loops from three different instruments (preferably piano bass and drums) into the arrange window of Garageband. Create a song in ABA format which is 32 measures long. Make sure that the instruments compliment each other both in sound and style. The project needs to be 32 measures long.

2 RUBRIC FOR PROJECT POINTS 1 POINT 2 POINTS 5 POINTS Length Less than 20 measures Between 20 and measures long measures Form Asymmetrical with less than three different sections Symmetrical with less than three sections or asymmetrical with 3 different sections. 3 separate sections with symmetry and a repeat of the first section. Creativity Less than three instruments Three instruments with conflicting loops, no intro Three instruments with complimenting loops with introduction

3 Creating a song in ABACA Form II. Open up Garageband and choose new music project. II. Save your project to your folder on the desktop with your name on it. III. Connect the USB powered piano keyboard to your laptop. Create four different drum tracks by selecting New Track four times or create one new drum track and press Open Apple and the D three times to duplicate the track. Your arrange window should look like this. V. Use the USB keyboard to create and record different rhythms within each of the tracks that will compliment each other.* Experiment with different sounds, etc. Remember that your project needs to have three different rhythmic sections with a repeated section at the beginning middle and end of your piece to meet the ABACA Form requirement. VI. When completed, put your file in the teacher s digital dropbox.

4 *Recording music using the USB midi keyboard is simple. Simply click on the track you want to record on, place the playhead where you would like to start recording in the timeline and then press the record button at the bottom of the Garageband window. RUBRIC FOR PROJECT POINTS 2 POINT 5 POINTS 10 POINTS Length Less than 20 measures Between 20 and measures long measures Form Asymmetrical with less than three different sections. Creativity Less than four different rhythms for each section. Symmetrical with less than three sections or asymmetrical with 3 different sections. Four instruments with conflicting loops, no intro, no ending 3 separate sections with symmetry in the proper forma and a repeat of the first section in the middle and end of the piece. Four instruments with complimenting rhythms with an introduction and ending

5 Introduction You have landed an interview for a job with a prominent Madison Ave advertising agency. For the interview they want to see a sample of what you can do and ask you to make up a mock car commercial of your favorite car. Task Your task is to develop a 30 second mock car commercial utilizing Garageband. Your Commercial should include pictures of your favorite car, a narrated script, commercial jingle, and sound effects. Process After the teacher introduces Garageband to you, go through the following steps to complete your project. If you have any questions or problems, ask the teacher for Help. Step 1: Open Safari - Download several pictures of your favorite car to the iphoto library on your laptop. The best place to start would be a Google image search. When you find a picture you want to use, go to the actual web site to download the image. DO NOT download the image from Google the resolution will not be good. To Download an image into the iphoto library, place your cursor over the image, hold down the ctrl key on your keyboard and choose add image to iphoto library. Step 2: Once you have downloaded all the images you want, open up iphoto and create a new album with the name of your car. Drag all of the pictures you want to use into this folder from the iphoto library.

6 Step 3: After you have completed step 2, quit iphoto and open up Garageband. Choose New under the File menu. Choose New Podcast Episode. Save the file in your folder as carcommercial with your name in the front (see picture below) On the right-hand side of the arrange window you should see your media browser. Click on Photos if it is not already chosen and click on your car s folder. Click and drag the pictures in the order you want them to be displayed to the podcast track. Step 4: After you have gotten all of your photos into the podcast track, make sure the purple triangle on the timeline is placed at 00:30 seconds. Step 5: To add a jingle to your commercial, use one of the standard jingles found within garageband. Click on the EYE icon at the bottom left-hand side of the Garageband window and choose Jingles from the menu. Jingles exist in three different forms, Short, medium and Long.

7 Drag your favorite jingle to the jingles track. Step 6: You can also add sound effects to your commercial by choosing the sound effects from the loops menu. There are 19 transportation sound effects. Choose one or two and click and drag them into the Radio Sounds track. Step 7: It is now time to create and record the script for your commercial. Go back and look at some of the web sites where you found pictures of your car, look for any technical information you can use and create your script. Write the script down on a piece of paper and revise it until you have exactly what you want. To record your script into Garageband, select the Male Voice track and click the record button. (You may delete the female voice track) Hint: Make sure that the jingles track and Radio Sounds track are on mute so that you don t hear them on the recording of your script. Record button Step 8: After you have recorded your script you may experiment with altering the sound of your voice by choosing different effects within the track info window. To access this window if it is not showing, make sure the Male Voice track is selected and click on the button shown below which is located at the bottom right of your Garageband window.

8 Step 9: After you have completed your Podcast. Send it to itunes under the Share menu at the top of the screen. Play it in itunes. Conclusion: Below is a rubric that I will use to grade your podcast. Look over it carefully to make sure you meet all of the requirements for a perfect score! Length Pictures Script Jingle/Sound Effects Less than 15 seconds 5 points 1-5 pictures 5 points Not thought out very well. Very few details Can t understand what the narrator is saying 5 points Jingle not the appropriate length. No sound effects or effects used incorrectly. 5 points Between seconds 6-10 pictures Some Organization. A fair amount of details. Can understand narrator. No effects used on voice. Jingle the correct length. One or two occurances of a sound effect 25 seconds and up 15 points More than points Very well thought out. Well organized, Several details. One or more effects used on voice. 15 points Jingle the correct length and appropriate. One or more sound effects used correctly. 15 points Total points: 60

9 Introduction You work in the sound effects department of Warner Bros. Studios. They found an old western movie that they would like to re-release. The movie itself is in pretty good shape, but the soundtrack is not good. They ask you to create a new soundtrack for the movie including music and sound effects. Task Your task is to develop a soundtrack for the movie clip found in your music technology folder. You will need to add APPROPRIATE sound effects and create an original music score for the clip. Process After the teacher takes you through creating a new movie project using Garageband, go through the following steps to complete your project. If you have any questions or problems, ask the teacher for Help. Step 1: Open Garageband - Choose New under the File menu. Choose New Movie Score. Save the file in your folder as movie clip with your name in the front. (See picture Below)

10 Step 2: Open up the Movies folder under your media browser and drag the movie clip entitled Western Movie Clip into the Video Track. Step 3: To add sound effects, go onto the internet and look at the following two sites where you can download free sound effects. and To download sounds from this website, move your cursor over the text which is the link to the sound file, hold down the control button and click. The following dialogue box should pop up. Choose Download linked file. It will automatically be saved to your desktop. Step 4: After you have downloaded all of your sound effects clips, move all of the files into your music tech folder. DO NOT leave them on the desktop. Next, create at least two new real instrument tracks to your project in Garageband. To do this, click on the track menu and choose real instrument. TIP: To create another real instrument track, make sure the previous track is highlighted than choose Duplicate Track from the Track menu.

11 Step 5: Click and drag your sound effects into a real instrument track. If you get an error message, you will need to open up the sound effect in itunes first. Convert it to an AAC file then drag the converted file into Garageband. Step 6: After you have gotten all of your sound effects placed properly into the score, Your next step is to create an original sound track to the movie, either by using the software and real instrument loops provided in Garageband or you can create your own using the USB keyboard for midi loops and recording in other sounds and instruments. Please see Mr. Fair to have him help you set up the recording interface with your laptop. HINT: Make sure the purple triangle on the timeline is placed at the end of the Video Clip. Step 5: After you have completed your project, Export the project to itunes to be played for the class. Conclusion: Below is the rubric that I will use to grade your podcast. Look over it carefully to make sure you meet all of the requirements for a perfect score! Sound Effects Music Soundtrack No sound effects or used inappropriate sound effects 0 points One Garageband loop 5 points One or two appropriate sound effects used One or more Garageband loops sequenced appropriately with the video Clip Several sound effects used correctly. 20 points Mixture of Grageband loops and original loops using USB Keyboard. 20 points Total points: 40 Bonus points: Record in your own real instrument soundtrack: Bonus points: Record in your own sound effects (must be appropriate for project):