Week 6 - 9.28-29

-syncopated, indeed!-

Mon/Tue 100 min

Warm Up 15min

Name a few of the producers (people who make the music for the singers/rappers (e.g. Quincy Jones made the music for Michael Jackson's "Thriller", Dr. Dre made the beats for Snoop Dogg's "Who Am I?") you appreciate. If you don't know which producer you like, think about a song you enjoy for the music, then use your search tool to find the producer of the song.

P.O.T.D.

Vocab List

1. split
2. loop
3. cycle
4. sample
5. track
6. balance
7. musical typing
8. metronome
9. count-in
10. ducking
11. automation
12. tempo
13. MP3
14. WAV
15. AAC
16. KBPS
17. mute
18. solo
19. lock
20. quantize

Lesson - 60min

Garageband - Creating a Midi Drum Track
Do it together (students will be able to create a drum track that is compiled from multiple parts; each part being soloable and mutable, to enable diversification on the rhythm)

1. metronome - on
2. count-in - on
3. new software instrument track
4. select instrument type - Hip-hop drum kit
5. open musical typing, find sound
6. record & play
7. edit and quantize (quantized per need - 1/4 = Snare, 1/8 = hi hat, 1/16 swing = bass drum)
8. rename track (snare, bass drum, hi hat, etc)
9. Change Project tempo if necessary.
10. REPEAT x 3 (each track a separate sound, separation = control; 4 tracks or more, one sound per track)

Work Time 55min

At the end of the period please export to disk a copy of your beat, and a screenshot of your prezi to a folder renamed “YOUR NAME” and drop in the appropriate drop box.

name the beat - “drums_YOURNAME"

name the shot - “prezi update wk6_YOURNAME”