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Music Composition Project: Garage Band & Noteflight

Goal: Compose a song in Rounded Binary form using garageband or noteflight.

Materials: • Macbook laptop • Garageband software

Prior Knowledge: • Basic Music Theory including Keys, phrases, cadences and simple forms • General knowledge of Garageband

Procedure for recording using Garageband: 1. First, you must open the program "Garage Band". 2. Typically, you will find "Garage Band" on the computers dock at the bottom of your screen. 3. If Garage Band is not in your dock, type "Garage Band" into your spotlight in the top right-hand corner of your screen or you can look in your finder located on the left corner of your dashboard. 4. We select a new project in the menu page of the program garage band. 5. After you select new project you should click on the "Piano" option, on the right side in the top row. While selecting you can either double click, or click once and then click "Choose" in the bottom left hand corner. 6. A new screen will pop up and you will name your song up top and you will press create. 7. Click "window" on the taskbar and select musical typing. 8. You can change to a new instrument using the software instruments pad on the right if want something other than piano. You can find the software pad, by clicking on the track information icon at the bottom right hand corner of the screen. The icon looks like a lower case i. 9. Next click "control" on the taskbar and select count in. This will allow four beats to attain pulse prior to recording your track. 10. Then you can start to record your song by clicking the red button at the bottom of the screen. 11. To stop recording hit "Space Bar", or click the "Stop" key at the bottom of the screen. 12. If you are unhappy with your recording, click on the loop you just created and press the delete key to remove what you have just recorded from the screen If you track is ok and you would to slightly edit it, click the scissors in the bottom lefthand corner. 13. There are two ways of viewing your piece in the edit window, "piano roll" view or "score" view. Score view is great for printing, however piano roll is easier for editing. 14. You can move a note in piano scroll bye clicking it and then draging it to the required pitch of you choice. Use se the piano keyboard to the left as a guide. To make a note longer or shorter, place the cursor right on the end of the note and strech it to your satisfaction.There are a few options after recording, you can save directly to garage band or you can send it to itunes or you can add it to your loop library. 15. To add another track you must go to the Track button at the top of your screen and then select new track. You must select the type of track you prefer. Once you have finished your piece, save your project. You may also export it to itunes using the "share" menu in the task bar. Directions: 1. Come up with two melodies (preferably contrasting in style) 2. Determine the Key of the piece as indicated by your melodies. 3. Harmonize your melody; think about cadences, chord tones, non-chord tones and proper harmonic progressions 4. Determine final instrumentation and accompaniment style 5. Fit music into a rounded binary form (AB ½A) 6. Present projects to the class

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