Final Post

This year i got so much better and more musical. I always thought that i was really musical and could write music easy since I was at one time in band, but i wasn't. The only project that I did was ease was the drum loop, because I didnt have to worry about pitches. For the next few projects, listening to them again now, they make no sense and aren't organized at all. I didn't realize that throughout the year I got better at making my loops sound organized. They were also one dimensional, with always only one continuous loop and a drum beat. Each project ended up in me using something new, and I usually kept using it afterwards, so each project started to sound kind of deeper with more to the songs. By about the sixth project, I learned how to make my own syths, which is why the sounds start to actually sound different than other projects. I also learned how to use the riff machine, which what I depended on for a while, because it was easier than goin through each note on the keyboard, to see what sounded good. The only thing that I had learned to that point on writing loops, was not to use the black keys because I knew that they were flats and sharps, and I didn't know any scales that included them. Then all of the sudden my songs got much more depth, I had melodies, parts that were in harmony with the melody, and some third sound that accented the other two well. I think this was my best point of the year because the song was simple enough, yet also complex enough and I might have even listened to it on my IPod. Once I learned how to use poizone, it made projects easier for me, because I could make a sound much quicker, however listening to them now, I don't like how they sound, they're always too powerful and didn't have enough bass. My projects were consistently ok as I learned more things like ADSR and envelopes and LFO. But I started to get too heavily relient on bass, and bass parts were my melody with a synth part accenting that. Whenever I tried to do just a normal bass part throughout that wasn't overbearing, I never liked it. Then the chords progression project came, and i learned how to write the music in chords. This made the projects much easier and I stopped using riff machines because it was funner to write my own parts. I no longer had to "go through all of the white keys", but just pick some chord and use it. Unfortunately, that was the last project that I finsihed with that knowledge. One of the bonus tracks does have my own chords that I wrote though. I learned a ridiculous amount this year and improved my projects in huge amounts. I can now appreciate about any song and I'm more curious because I'm just like "I wonder what made them write that part like that?"

Grady rap

Ok, this project is soooooo far from perfect. The original rap that she recorded for us was horribly off beat, so i split her vocals into about 25 different pieces and spaced them better so that she would come in at the right time. Sometimes she said a word too long so i would have to cut that. Listening to it right now you probably can't tell the amount of work that went into it but there was a lot of work. Sadly the year is over and i don't have time to perfect it and make it sound good. It is still very offbeat, but it is autotuned and i added bass and a drum beat that go along with the vocals the best i could do in the given amount of time. If i DID have more time, I would autotune it a little better, add some harmony and of course make it so that it's not offbeat. I hope you at least enjoy hearing Mrs. Grady sound funny. Also at the end i took an "alrighttt" vocal and autotuned it the same way that I autotuned Mrs. Grady so it sounds like she says "alrighttt".

Bonus Track 2

this is another unfinished project

Bonus Track

This is just a project that I started a while ago but never finished. I didn't want to waste it so i decided to post it. It's not really for a grade or something, but just for fun.

Update on Grady Rap

i made a ton of progress this week, but you can't tell by listening to it. Mrs Grady was very off beat so i spent time editing her voice so that some words were shorter some were longer and tried to get her back on beat. It was pretty hard so it's definitely not perfect. I put a very basic drum beat to the whole thing, which was also hard.

Update

I didn't advance too much this week with anything drastic, but just refined some parts of the song to make it flow better, sound better etc. At the same time, I'm working a little with pitcher and trying to learn how to use it for the future and hopefully fit it into this project, however i'm kind of realizing that i might have to start over and use the song i'm working on for another project because the vocals from pitcher likely won't work with the song.

Use something new from Fl Sudio 10 Project Update

So far i am pretty far in this project. However, i still haven't added something drastically new like pitcher. i plan to do that next class. I have a nice base song to add the new things to. I have used new things like riff machine though.