My senior project experience has come to end. Although, technically I am still working on my project. In my mind, senior project isn’t over until the night of the presentation. […]
Category: Music
Blog post #8
After many hours of trying to figure out how I wanted to form my song, making each section a separate song or have them all be one, and I have[…]
CR #5
My essential question was how can music reflect an emotion and what I’ve discovered is that each piece of music may be centered around one specific emotion but it reflects[…]
Blog post #7
We are coming to the final week of working on our senior projects and now the tech portion has become crucial. Of course, because my project is so complicated and[…]
May 7-8 – FINALLY posting a second song here
Hi all, attached is a mix of our second song. I might go back and redo the vocals later, as I don’t LOVE them but we’ll see what time and[…]
Apr 29th: More work on Song 2
So Dominic and I have been working on our second song for a bit now. I’ve been experimenting with sounds a lot, so that’s why it’s been taking longer to[…]
may 7-8: song 2
Helloo, so Gus and I finally have a new song for you all. This one took us longer than the first song to finish since we were such perfectionists about[…]
CR #4
This week, I made a lot of progress. Yesterday I spent 4 hours working on my project. I met with a friend of mines’ sibling who works with logic constantly.[…]
CR #2
What is the process of writing a song like for a beginner? Because of quarantine, I’ve been at home speaking french 24/7with my family and speaking absolutely no english has[…]
CR #1
What is the process of writing a song like for a beginner? I know that to write something I am proud of would be to write something meaningful to me.[…]
Blog post #6
Finally, my pop filter came for my microphone. It took me forever to set up and get it to work properly but I did it. I messed around with the[…]
May 1: finishing song 2
Helloo, so Gus and I are still being very perfectionist about the song and really taking our time with this one. I wish we had another mix to show so[…]
Apr 29th: Song 2 coming together
Helloooo, so Gus and I have been working exclusively on this song for almost a week now. It’s coming together nicely but we’ve been very perfectionist about it so it’s[…]
CR #1
I had a lot of trouble getting the right melody in the beginning of my project. I went through about 3 different ideas before I finally found the right one[…]
CR #2
Throughout this process, it’s been very difficult to gather up enough motivation to work during the quarantine. I’ve tried my best to put all of my frustration into my music.[…]
CR #3
My guitar chord finally arrived so I began recording the guitar portion. I feel that the guitar will really start to pull the whole song together. I think in the[…]
Blog post #5
Yesterday I decided to practice my singing tones so I would be prepared when my pop filter arrived and record the official vocals for each section. I adapted the tone[…]
Blog post #4
This original blog post was deleted so I’m rewriting it. As it turns out, I have been doing lots of research on what instruments help to best represent an[…]
CR2 – An Experience In Detail
The process of recording vocals for the track that I posted on the blog recently is something that I thought was CR-worthy, so here are my thoughts on that: […]
April 24: first song mix
Hellooo, so Gus and I have finally finished a first mix of a song, feel free to give it a listen. We’re planning on starting/working on new songs instead of[…]
April 24: 23rd continued
Above is a finished mix of a song (finally)! It’s most likely not the last mix we’ll do of it, but for now, it works and today we’re focusing on[…]
April 22: Finishing song 1
Hello, so Gus and I haven’t stopped working on this song yet and are really close to having a complete mix for you all. Once we finish this song we[…]
April 22: Finishing a Song (finally)
So Dominic and I are finally finishing up a song for you all to hear. We built this song from a demo I had on my computer – When we[…]
Blog post #3
Yesterday, I spent 3 hours working on the album cover for my song. I designed a sketch, took the pictures, and edited it all together. I spent so much time[…]
Senior Project blog post #2
I have worked on the finalizing of my lyrics and recording the piano portion on logic pro. It took me a little while to figure out how to connect my[…]
April 17th – Starting Work On Another Song!
Hi all, So today we started work on a second song idea. I’ll give the rundown on how we built it up over the day. We started in the same[…]
April 16th – Further Updates
Hi all! For this past week so far Dominic and I have been working on the song that we started last week – we’ve got the start of a verse/chorus[…]
APR 17: SONG 2
Hellooooo, so Gus and I thought it would be a good idea to let the first song sit for a couple days so that we don’t get sick of it[…]
APR 16: FIRST SONG PART 2
Hello, so Gus and I have been continuing the song we started last week. We’ve been trying to flesh out complete verse, chorus and bridge sections. It’s probably about time[…]
CR1
There’s plenty I know about my senior project’s area of study. However, like everything I’m passionate about I can’t know everything and I certainly don’t claim to, so it’s a worthwhile exercise[…]
CR #1
Critical Reflection #1: What I Know vs What I Don’t Know (CR1) My senior project is about making music. My essential question is how can I tell a compelling[…]
April 13th – First Song
Hi all, Since the last post, I’ve brought Dominic up to speed on all he needed to know to record and produce in Logic. We’ve taken the song idea that[…]
APRIL 13TH: 1ST SONG
Hello, so now that Gus has shown me most of the basics, we started a song. We started off with this synth part that Gus wrote and kept adding more[…]
April 6-7: Getting Up To Speed
Hellooooooo! First blog post here, so let’s see how it goes and jump right into it: For senior project, Dominic and I are making music over the internet. Our original[…]
April 6-7th: Getting up to speed
For senior project, Gus and I are making music over the internet. Our original plan was to make music in person, but with covid 19 that’s definitely NOT going to[…]
Katie’s 1st Post
Last week was the first week of working on our senior projects. It took me a long time but I finally figured out a piano base and vocal melody. I[…]