Game Design and Modding Portfolio
Summary This project expresses the study of melodic structure and its impact on a song as well as the significance of notes. My First HookTheory Melody Place a screenshot of your 8 measure melody from hookpad.hooktheory.com Link to a .mp3 file of your first HookTheory melody that you exported from hookpad.hooktheory.com Write a brief reflection…
Audio Recording Sound Safari Summary This project mostly consisted of learning the effects of equipment placement when it comes to microphones. The group I was in also explored the many specifics with the types of sound with the particular mic we were using. Tools Used – 1) Audio deck for recording 2) Shure SM58 3)…
SUMMARY The 2022 SMART Goal Project is an assignment taken in my School of Rock class. This blog post serves as documentation to the progress done throughout the March 2022 session. The main song inspiration which lead me to try practicing the piano is Interstellar, a song which is just incredible to listen and analyze. “Piano.”…
Cornell Notes Example Cue Notes What is contextual interference and its concepts? How can you be decisive when it comes to desirable difficulty? Practicing with a metronome is essential for practicing. Contextual interference can help improve your skills through challenges and improve your understanding of rhythm. Desirable difficulty is an important curve when it comes…
Summary During this session project I worked on improving the arrangement of my tracks within the synthwave genre. Throughout the project I also worked greatly on my piano skills when it comes to chords and melody. To this date it may be the most complex music production project I’ve worked on with song structure…
SUMMARY Role: Producer Instrument: Piano Intention (SMART Goal): By March 2nd during this session, I will compose a full song with decent arrangement and melody while using the basics of piano such as thirds from various tutorials on YouTube such as THIS and will have created a song under the synthwave genre using thirds for…
Summary Throughout this project, I worked on composing a song by learning basic navigation throughout a DAW, using automation and attempting to learn song structure. The most notable thing I worked on was using multiple pads to make a decent arrangement. Audio File Formats and Definitions AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format): stores standard CD-quality audio; similar…
SUMMARY Role Producer Intention (SMART Goal) By January 28th by going solo, I will produce a full song within the Electronic genre by following various tutorials on YouTube or through experimentation and will have learned the basics of piano to create a great sounding song for my Session 3 project. PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY Leader(s) in…
Ableton Live 11 – Tutorial for Beginners in 12 MINUTES! Overview Here are my notes taken using a rather nice timestamp style. The video I decided to use regards using Ableton Live 11, the preferred DAW I like to use. Notes Views in Ableton and Locations; Arrangement normally used Importing audio sample files or MIDI…
Overview Role: Drums/Melody Intention (SMART Goal): To create a decent intro by using Ableton Live 11 as a DAW. This was achieved through various videos and actual applications of Ableton to a group project. I spent many hours experimenting and attempting to use it for a production project which has given me some familiarity to…