Compositions

Cheese Salad

This song was a collaboration with the other students in my class (Luke, Nico, Jonah, Josh and me) . We first worked together to make the beats for our song and the base for our rap. After getting the beat how we all liked it we spent lots of class time making our raps together. We then recorded our raps and quickly learned that the hardest part of this song was learning how to make all of our voices clear and heard. We all range in pitch from very deep to very high so it took trial and error to make them all clear. This collab was difficult because I am used to making music by myself, but I really liked working with others.

Cookin BeAt

A.C. Trap Cone

One of my first assignments for class this year was getting a random beat pack and making a song with it. I made this along with my peers Luke, Josh, Jonah and Niko. They were just in the studio when I was making it and were dancing to it. I remembered a lot of things when making this song, the importance of pan- separating the beats and how fun it is to change the beats. I enjoyed making this with my peers near me because they gave me feedback and helped me when I could not find the right buttons.

A.C. Trap Cone was inspired by my classmate Josh. He does raps in class and one of the lines said something about a trap cone and I loved it, so I made a song about it. BandLab is a fairly simple app to make music with and using it was not complicated at all. I learned how to use the application which is similar to Sound Trap (what we used in the past). I really enjoyed making this song because it was inspired by something and I was able to bring it to life.

Rushing back remix

Doctor Who's Trip

Slaughter of the Lamb

Saga of the Sleeping Baby

This composition trouble 3 was fun to make because the mood and energy are upbeat. When composing it, I knew I wanted to have a deep yet happy song. When I transitioned the song from the trap beat to the piano beat, it was choppy at first but after working on it I was able to smooth the flow and add a new style. I started out with just the trap beat, found a few intro sounds for it and then added new pieces when I felt the song needed. I really liked the freedom we had with this project. We have free range with all of our projects but this one was especially free because Mr. McCready was out almost the entire time we worked on it. Even though it was nice, it did come with a new set of challenges because if you had a question or needed help, you had to figure it out or ask a peer.

This was one of my first compositions using the application Ableton. The instructions were to make your first composition using our new application and to include pan and. This was a very difficult composition and I learned many new things about the flow of the piece, and transitioning through the song. I also learned about bringing the energy of my music up through the volume and separating the beats to make the song clearer.

This composition was done on sound trap, it was by far took the most time and was the most difficult to make. We listened to a song in class, discussed the mood and energy and then were given the vocal recordings and were told to make a song. The most challenging part was the space between her singing, I restarted this project multiple times. But after many hours, ended with something I'm very proud of. I learned about panning and sweeping to create a cool texture and building the energy by adding more beats.

During one of our classes, we talked about Delia Derbyshire and her importance in making the Doctor Who theme song, but never getting the credit she deserved. So my composition on this topic my song was inspired by her work. I used the pan to bring up the energy by building the song while still having new elements come in clear. I learned the importance of separating the beats between the speakers to make for a clear song.

Slaughter of the Lamb was one of my first ever compositions, really having no idea what I was doing I struggled. But I managed to have a lot of fun playing around with music. I learned the different components to a song, and when to place things in your music to keep it interesting.

Saga of the Sleeping baby was a very fun composition, it's known as my saw dust. I really did not know what i was doing, but I was having fun. I thought it was very cool that i could add an audio file of a baby crying. In this, I used the electric guitar to give it a rock mood but also had a very trap like beat.