A Voice From Below Song

Final Thoughts

Throughout the year of music tech I learned a lot. I learned the true importance of bass in a song and how to use many tools to help improve my work. I think I improved significantly since the beginning of the year and had a lot of fun throughout the year. I'm looking forward to next year.

Grady's Don't Bully Rap

For this project I had to use Pitcher. Pitcher is basically an autotuner. For the vocals I had Ms. Grady, the guidance counselor, sing and I autotuned her. I had to cut each word out individually because she was off beat. For the synths in the background I used Sytrus Synth 2, Fl Slayer Bass Punch, Poizone Bas Creamy MC, LED Brassatas TC, Sytrus Classic, Sytrus Sytrus. For this song I wanted a lot of bass to make it seem almost dubstep like.

Grady Rap

Significant progress is being made on the Grady Rap, only one class left to finish hopefully I'll work quick! It's proven to be tricky with her rushing in her rapping but I've worked around it.

Bonus

Due to my confusion on Pitcher the song I was working on will not work with it. There for this is more of a bonus track per se. Comment if you'd like me to explain my work on this song if not work on the Grady rap starts now.

Progress

For the next project we have to use Pitcher. So far I've almost finished writing my song I just need to touch up some areas and then I'll start to begin on Pitcher. The song has a techno feel but as most of my songs do, it has a breakdown. It ends with one of the heaviest breakdowns I've written yet.

Modal Chord Project

For this project we had to use modal chord progressions. I started off by writing my chord progression using the Poizone channel with the ARP Wild Thing ToTc preset. My progression is just 1 2 3 in the key of B flat. I then matched the progression with a synth and Slayer. After that I decided to write my drum part. I wanted to keep it slow for the beginning. I also wrote my bass part. For the bass part I was inspired by the Holst song we are playing in band. I wanted 3 completely different sections with the same melody in each (except I didn't change the bass melody). After I wrote a clearer melody using Sytrus with the Fat preset. In the third section of the song for my modal chord progression I used the SYN PoizoneString preset in Poizone. For this my progression was 1 5 3 2. For the second section I left the modal chords out but at the end I brought back the arpeggio dropped an octave. For the 2nd section I wanted it to be more uplifting and fast. For the third I wanted to make it really slow. I then wanted to bring back the first section but use the drums from the second to keep it higher paced.