You can either record the entire song, or choose a 1 minute section. You can try to make the song sound just like the original, or you can take the same chords and make it unique using different instruments, sounds, and solos. This cover will include at least three instruments and will require you to play chords in a given key. You will be creating a cover (remake) of a song you like by a favorite band or artist. This is a big project and uses GarageBand on iPad. This is a long recording- make sure the loops or instrument sounds you use are pleasant enough to listen to for minutes on end.Īt least 6 minutes long, no longer than 8 minutes. You can add fades (especially crossfades) and dynamic changes, but they should not take away the emphasis on the theme of this project: subtlety. You can have more than that if you want, and you can also have fewer instruments at the beginning or end. There should be at least three tracks/instruments going on most of the time time. By the end, every instrument or track sounds totally different from the beginning, but it gets there slowly and nobody really notices the changes.ĭo this project with Mixcraft or GarageBand. It’s only one part (instrument/track) changing at a time, and it’s so subtle (or similar to what was playing before) that you hardly notice it. Every 10 seconds or so, something changes. With a mixture of loops and recorded instrumentsįor me, the real takeaway from this podcast was hearing the very subtle changes. This is a lot longer than we’re used to, and will get you familiar with working with longer tracks and bigger files. Not 15 minutes like theirs, but 6-8 minutes. Sound effects should be used tastefully and fit the filmįor this assignment, I want you to create a longer recording than usual. Music should change with the scenes and complement the film Other than a dramatic break, there should be music (soundtrack) throughout Duboisīetween 50 seconds and 1 minute 15 seconds longĪny original soundtrack is completely deleted Upload to Google Drive and share with Mrs. Dubois, get feedback, edit your projectġ3. Share with a classmate, get feedback, edit your projectġ0. Add sound effects to complement the filmĩ. Add a soundtrack using loops or recorded musicĨ. Start a new project in Mixcraft: under the video menu, add a video file. Follow the steps exactly, especially the ones that deal with video format.Ĥ. Read through all of the instructions before shopping for a video. This assignment requires you to compose a new soundtrack for a short video.