In the blog post, list the key learning goals for your project and how the project will provide a pathway for you to make progress towards these goals. You should probably have 3-5 goals. These goals should address the key skills, dispositions and areas of knowledge that your project will address

• Learn the process of creating a song from start to finish; create more than one song (possibly an EP) if I have time
• Learn about independent music distribution and how it compares to my expectations
• Find out if distributing music has become easier and more accessible now than it was before through these distribution services and digital streaming platforms that have launched in recent years
• Making a short documentary to document my process (possibly a music video if I have time)

 

In the blog post, provide a general outline of how you plan to spend your time each week over the six-week experiential portion of senior project. While this plan is likely to change once the project starts, outlining it now will help you to shape the project to meet the requirements with respect to time.

Week 1:

• Reviewing music composition from online tutorials and assigning mini-projects for myself (creating short piano pieces for practice)
• Learning about essential plugins and production techniques from online resources and trying them out myself; assigning more mini-projects for myself (short beat loops for practice)

 

Week 2:

• Practicing piano, bass, and ukulele to think of possible chord progressions and melodies for the song (recording them so that I can figure out which one I like best)
• Creating a rough layout of the chords and melody in Logic Pro X (using only piano and maybe drums so that I can focus on the song composition itself before the instrumentation)
• Brainstorming possible topics for the song’s lyrics

 

Week 3:

• Making edits to the rough layout and establishing the instrumentation and genre(s) of the song
• Begin writing lyrics; figuring out the melody and rhythm of them

 

Week 4:

• Finalizing lyrics
• Recording vocals
• Finishing the mix of the song
• Getting feedback from mentor and incorporating it into the mix and lyrics

 

Week 5:

• Learning how to master tracks from online resources
• Mastering the track and adding any final edits/finishing touches
• Planning/creating cover art

 

Week 6:

• Finalizing cover art
• Distributing the song to online platforms
• Editing together a video showing my process of making the song and reflecting on that experience

 

Final Product:

My final product for this project will be a completed song distributed to various music streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, and more.

 

 

Documentation Plan: Telling the story of your learning is a crucial component of the senior project experience. In addition to any work produced as part of their project, students are asked to engage in regular critical reflection on their learning. Students should consider what form this reflection should take that best aligns with the nature of their work.

In the blog post, provide a description of how you plan to document your work and reflection. You should also indicate what types of products your project might produce. Below are some examples of different kinds of written documentation. You can also find some other examples here on the senior project blog.

I will edit together a video describing my process of making the song as well as reflecting on that experience through frequent video updates throughout the process. The unedited video files will be uploaded as they are filmed over the course of the project to a Google Drive folder so my mentor, advisor, or anyone else who needs these updates can see my progress in real-time. My final video will compile all of these progress updates into a final video that can be viewed on the blog itself.