3.12.10 - Remixing and Listening

Warm Up (15 min)
POTD
QOTD: What have you liked so far in working with garageband? Is there something specific about digital music production that you would like to learn or do? What has been challenging about making our beats? What have you felt successful at?

VOTD
Remix: A different version of the original.

Adding Your Loop (5 min)
1. Now what you have a midi drum track, we can add our loops from last week.
2. Drag your loop from your student server (or make a new one from the ultimate breaks and beats!) into your midi beat timeline.
If we were diligent in getting our loops on beat, we should hear our sample with some nice clean hi-hats, snares, bass drums and mystery sounds accompanying them.
Choose weather you want to use your regular time hi-hats or double time hats.
Do the same for your bass drums; regular or half time?


Extending the Beat (30 min)
Use the remaining time to extend the length of your beat to 24 measures.
1. Using copy and paste or pulling the upper right hand corner of your tracks extend the length of your tracks.
Don’t settle with having all the tracks play all the time. Experiment with removing your hi-hats and bass drum or switching between your two variations of hi hats and bass.

EXPORT AS AN MP3 AND DROP IN THE DROP BOX FOR CREDIT! WE WILL LISTEN TO THE BEATS AT THE END OF CLASS.

Movie (30 min)
Beat Diggin’ Documentary
What do these sampling experts look for in a sample?

Listening Session (25 min)
Let’s hear our remixes!