This song was my first song and it was a fun one. I used this as an opportunity to play with a lot of sounds and ended up using a lot of instrumentals for this song which was different than the more beats oriented song that I was planning on making. It started off very slow and I ended up just going with it and later increasing the BPM to achieve a faster pace, and in my opinion catchier, song. In the end, making this song was very fun and reminded me to be more open minded when creating content.
For my second song I wanted to do something very different from my first one. Instead of being a slower, yet still upbeat instrumental song, I went for a more intense and techno-inspired song. There were still instrumental aspects, and I made a few live loops, but overall the main focus was on sounds like beats and synths.
This project was slightly different from the others. Instead of creating a whole song using loops, I was only allowed to use beats a and had to use live instruments on GarageBand to create my own melodies. All four of these melodies are vastly different from each other. All use different instruments and different beats, and some even seem to sound like they have different pacing, even though they all have the same BPM. This was a very educational project and the only thing I would change is that I would make the last piano melody a bit slower. It was orignally slower, but it messed with the other melodies, which all worked best with the same pacing.
For this project there were a lot of problems that came up because we could only use sounds from nature instead of using traditional instruments or loops as we have in the past . Because it was so difficult I wanted to keep the melody short and simple, and so I used a bunch of objects to try and make sounds that sounded like percussion instruments. Overall this project, despite being difficult, was very educational and the tools I learned during this project will be very helpful in the future.
This project was great because this was the first time that we couldn't use loops. Instead we had to use a keyboard to play different instruments. This song is by far my slowest. It is very calm and melodic and it reminds me of a Christmas song, which is perfect since it was made around Christmas time.