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Creating a song in ABA Form

I. Open up Garageband and choose new music project.

II. Save your project to your folder on the desktop with your name on it.

III. Open up the loop browser by clicking on the “eye” icon at the bottom left of the Garageband window.

IV. Drag and drop loops from three different instruments (preferably piano bass and drums) into the arrange window of Garageband. Create a song in ABA format which is 32 measures long. Make sure that the instruments compliment each other both in sound and style. The project needs to be 32 measures long.

RUBRIC FOR PROJECT

|POINTS |1 POINT |2 POINTS |5 POINTS |

|Length |Less than 20 measures |Between 20 and 30 measures |32 measures long |

|Form |Asymmetrical with less than three |Symmetrical with less than three sections or |3 separate sections with symmetry and a |

| |different sections |asymmetrical with 3 different sections. |repeat of the first section. |

|Creativity |Less than three instruments |Three instruments with conflicting loops, no |Three instruments with complimenting |

| | |intro |loops with introduction |

Creating a song in ABACA Form

II. Open up Garageband and choose new music project.

II. Save your project to your folder on the desktop with your name on it.

III. Connect the USB powered piano keyboard to your laptop. Create four different drum tracks by selecting New Track four times or create one new drum track and press “Open Apple” and the “D” three times to duplicate the track. Your arrange window should look like this.

V. Use the USB keyboard to create and record different rhythms within each of the tracks that will compliment each other.* Experiment with different sounds, etc. Remember that your project needs to have three different rhythmic sections with a repeated section at the beginning middle and end of your piece to meet the ABACA Form requirement.

VI. When completed, put your file in the teacher’s digital dropbox.

*Recording music using the USB midi keyboard is simple. Simply click on the track you want to record on, place the playhead where you would like to start recording in the timeline and then press the record button at the bottom of the Garageband window.

RUBRIC FOR PROJECT

|POINTS |2 POINT |5 POINTS |10 POINTS |

|Length |Less than 20 measures |Between 20 and 30 measures |40 measures long |

|Form |Asymmetrical with less than three |Symmetrical with less than three sections or |3 separate sections with symmetry in the|

| |different sections. |asymmetrical with 3 different sections. |proper forma and a repeat of the first |

| | | |section in the middle and end of the |

| | | |piece. |

|Creativity |Less than four different rhythms for each |Four instruments with conflicting loops, no |Four instruments with complimenting |

| |section. |intro, no ending |rhythms with an introduction and ending |

Introduction

You have landed an interview for a job with a prominent Madison Ave advertising agency. For the interview they want to see a sample of what you can do and ask you to make up a mock car commercial of your favorite car.

Task

Your task is to develop a 30 second mock car commercial utilizing Garageband. Your Commercial should include pictures of your favorite car, a narrated script, commercial jingle, and sound effects.

Process

After the teacher introduces Garageband to you, go through the following steps to complete your project. If you have any questions or problems, ask the teacher for Help.

Step 1: Open Safari - Download several pictures of your favorite car to the iPhoto library on your laptop. The best place to start would be a Google image search. When you find a picture you want to use, go to the actual web site to download the image. DO NOT download the image from Google the resolution will not be good. To Download an image into the iPhoto library, place your cursor over the image, hold down the “ctrl” key on your keyboard and choose “add image to iPhoto library”.

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Step 2: Once you have downloaded all the images you want, open up iPhoto and create a new album with the name of your car. Drag all of the pictures you want to use into this folder from the iPhoto library.

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Step 3: After you have completed step 2, quit iPhoto and open up Garageband. Choose “New” under the “File” menu. Choose “New Podcast Episode”. Save the file in your folder as carcommercial with your name in the front (see picture below)

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On the right-hand side of the arrange window you should see your media browser. Click on Photos if it is not already chosen and click on your car’s folder. Click and drag the pictures in the order you want them to be displayed to the podcast track.

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Step 4: After you have gotten all of your photos into the podcast track, make sure the purple triangle on the timeline is placed at 00:30 seconds.

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Step 5: To add a jingle to your commercial, use one of the standard jingles found within garageband. Click on the EYE icon at the bottom left-hand side of the Garageband window and choose “Jingles” from the menu. Jingles exist in three different forms, Short, medium and Long.

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Drag your favorite jingle to the jingles track.

Step 6: You can also add sound effects to your commercial by choosing the sound effects from the loops menu. There are 19 transportation sound effects. Choose one or two and click and drag them into the “Radio Sounds” track.

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Step 7: It is now time to create and record the script for your commercial. Go back and look at some of the web sites where you found pictures of your car, look for any technical information you can use and create your script. Write the script down on a piece of paper and revise it until you have exactly what you want. To record your script into Garageband, select the “Male Voice” track and click the record button.

(You may delete the female voice track)

Hint: Make sure that the jingles track and Radio Sounds track are on mute so that you don’t hear them on the recording of your script.

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Step 8: After you have recorded your script you may experiment with altering the sound of your voice by choosing different effects within the track info window. To access this window if it is not showing, make sure the Male Voice track is selected and click on the button shown below which is located at the bottom right of your Garageband window.

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Step 9: After you have completed your Podcast. Send it to iTunes under the Share menu at the top of the screen. Play it in iTunes.

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Conclusion: Below is a rubric that I will use to grade your podcast. Look over it carefully to make sure you meet all of the requirements for a perfect score!

|Length |Less than 15 seconds |Between 15-25 seconds |25 seconds and up |

| |5 points |10 points |15 points |

|Pictures |1-5 pictures |6-10 pictures |More than 10 |

| |5 points |10 points |15 points |

|Script |Not thought out very well. Very few |Some Organization. A fair amount of |Very well thought out. Well |

| |details |details. Can understand narrator. No|organized, Several details. One or |

| |Can’t understand what the narrator is |effects used on voice. |more effects used on voice. |

| |saying |10 points |15 points |

| |5 points | | |

|Jingle/Sound Effects |Jingle not the appropriate length. No|Jingle the correct length. One or two|Jingle the correct length and |

| |sound effects or effects used |occurances of a sound effect |appropriate. One or more sound |

| |incorrectly. |10 points |effects used correctly. |

| |5 points | |15 points |

| | | |Total points: 60 |

Introduction

You work in the sound effects department of Warner Bros. Studios. They found an old western movie that they would like to re-release. The movie itself is in pretty good shape, but the soundtrack is not good. They ask you to create a new soundtrack for the movie including music and sound effects.

Task

Your task is to develop a soundtrack for the movie clip found in your music technology folder. You will need to add APPROPRIATE sound effects and create an original music score for the clip.

Process

After the teacher takes you through creating a new movie project using Garageband, go through the following steps to complete your project. If you have any questions or problems, ask the teacher for Help.

Step 1: Open Garageband - Choose “New” under the “File” menu. Choose “New Movie Score”. Save the file in your folder as movie clip with your name in the front. (See picture Below)

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Step 2: Open up the Movies folder under your media browser and drag the movie clip entitled “Western Movie Clip” into the Video Track.

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Step 3: To add sound effects, go onto the internet and look at the following two sites where you can download free sound effects.



To download sounds from this website, simply click on the mp3 button located next to the sound effect you want. Sound files should be downloaded to your desktop.

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Step 4: After you have downloaded all of your sound effects clips, move all of the files into your music tech folder. DO NOT leave them on the desktop. Next, create at least two new real instrument tracks to your project in Garageband. To do this, click on the track

menu and choose real instrument.

TIP: To create another real instrument track, make sure the previous track is highlighted than choose “Duplicate Track” from the Track menu.

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Step 5: Click and drag your sound effects into a real instrument track. If you get an error message, you will need to open up the sound effect in iTunes first. Convert it to an AAC file then drag the converted file into Garageband.

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Step 6: After you have gotten all of your sound effects placed properly into the score, Your next step is to create an original sound track to the movie, either by using the software and real instrument loops provided in Garageband or you can create your own using the USB keyboard for midi loops and recording in other sounds and instruments. Please see Mr. Fair to have him help you set up the recording interface with your laptop.

HINT: Make sure the purple triangle on the timeline is placed at the end of the Video Clip.

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Step 5: After you have completed your project, Export the project to iTunes to be played for the class.

Conclusion: Below is the rubric that I will use to grade your podcast. Look over it carefully to make sure you meet all of the requirements for a perfect score!

|Sound Effects |No sound effects or used inappropriate|One or two appropriate sound effects |Several sound effects used correctly. |

| |sound effects |used |20 points |

| |0 points |10 points | |

|Music Soundtrack |One Garageband loop |One or more Garageband loops sequenced|Mixture of Grageband loops and |

| |5 points |appropriately with the video Clip |original loops using USB Keyboard. |

| | |10 points | |

| | | |20 points |

| | | |Total points: 40 |

Bonus points: Record in your own real instrument soundtrack: 10 points

Bonus points: Record in your own sound effects (must be appropriate for project): 10 points

Introduction

Mrs. Wherley’s Child Development class hosts a “Kiddie Korner” preschool type session twice a week during the semester. The children love to listen to books being read and follow along in the book or listen to a book with pictures on the computer.

Task

Your task is to take a children’s book, record the story into Garageband on one track and then add appropriate sound effects and music to make the book more interesting and come alive!! You will also take digital pictures of the pages of the book and insert them into the podcast track of your project so kids can see the pictures, even if they don’t have the book.

Process

Step 1: Choose an appropriate children’s book aimed at 3-5 year-olds.

Step 2: Open Garageband - Choose “New” under the “File” menu. Choose “New Podcast Episode”. Save the file in your folder as childs book with your name in the front. (See picture Below)

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Step 3: Under the Male or Female Voice Track, record the text of the story with enthusiasm and character. Don’t just read it in a monotone fashion, this part is worth some points. (see rubric).

Step 4: Now go back and add some sound effects that go along with what is happening on the page. Use clues in the text or pictures to help you out. To add sound effects, go onto the internet and look at the following website where you can download free sound effects.



To download sounds from this website, simply click on the mp3 button located next to the sound effect you want. Sound files should be downloaded to your desktop.

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Step 4: After you have downloaded all of your sound effects clips, move all of the files into iTunes and create a new playlist. DO NOT leave them on the desktop. You will then be able to access your sound effects in iTunes directly through the media browser in Garageband. Next, create at least two new real instrument tracks to your project in Garageband. To do this, click on the track menu and choose real instrument.

TIP: To create another real instrument track, make sure the previous track is highlighted than choose “Duplicate Track” from the Track menu.

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Step 5: Click and drag your sound effects into a real instrument track. If you get an error message, you will need to open up the sound effect in iTunes first. Convert it to an AAC file then drag the converted file into Garageband.

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Step 6: After you have gotten all of your sound effects placed properly into the score, Your next step is to create an original sound track for the book, either by using the software and real instrument loops provided in Garageband or you can create your own using the USB keyboard for midi loops and recording in other sounds and instruments. You may also download music loops from . Please see Mr. Fair to have him help you set up the recording interface with your laptop.

HINT: Make sure the purple triangle on the timeline is placed at the end of the text track.

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Step 5: After you have completed your project, save it and drop it in Mr. Fair’s digital drop box on the faculty server.

Conclusion: Below is the rubric that I will use to grade your podcast. Look over it carefully to make sure you meet all of the requirements for a perfect score!

|Book Text |Very little inflection, no character. |Reads with some inflection, some |Reads with a lot of inflection and |

| |No enthusiasm or reads too fast. |character, reads at an okay speed. |character. Reads at the appropriate |

| |0 points |10 points |tempo. |

| | | |20 points |

|Music Soundtrack |One Garageband loop |One or more Garageband loops sequenced|Mixture of Garageband loops and |

| |5 points |appropriately with the books pages |original loops using USB Keyboard. |

| | |10 points |Score accents what is going on in the |

| | | |book at appropriate times |

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| | | |20 points |

|Sound Effects |No sound effects. |Some sound effects here and there. |Lots of sound effects used |

| |0 points |10 points |appropriately to accent the action |

| | | |happening in the book. |

| | | |20 points |

|Pictures |No Pictures |Pictures of the book are included, but|Pictures of books pages are clear and |

| |0 points |not properly cropped and are not clear|properly cropped. Pictures are also |

| | |5 points |timed properly with the text of the |

| | | |book. |

| | | |10 points |

| | | |Total points: 70 |

Bonus points: Record in your own real instrument soundtrack: 10 points

Bonus points: Record in your own sound effects (must be appropriate for project): 10 points

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