Continuing with your song from First Song: Phase III, complete this unit’s Contemporary Songwriting readings. This involves reading each chapter’s EXPOSITION section and then following its TUTORIAL instructions. The readings are listed here:
Contemporary Songwriting, Part II Chapter 19 and 20 (for Live users)
REQUIREMENTS
GarageBand users should adhere to these requirements:
The form of your song should be as follows, with eight measures per section (except where indicated) and arrangement markers for all sections:
Intro (four measures)
Verse 1
Verse 2
Chorus 1
Verse 3
Chorus 2
Bridge
Chorus 3
Outro
The content of all verses should be the same, and the content of all choruses should be the same.
The intro should consist of one non-drum, non-melody instrument from the verse, and a Drummer track Intro region.
The bridge should have the regions of two non-melody, non-drum instruments from the verse and/or chorus.
The bridge should have a Drummer track Bridge region.
The added verse and chorus regions should stop one measure before the end of the bridge.
Of the three non-melody instruments in the bridge, one of them should only be in the second half of the bridge (so, the first four measures should be deleted).
A new melody should be composed for the bridge, completing the same melody tasks that were used previously:
The melody should have two- or four-measure phrases only.
There should be some melodic structure (i.e., repetition of phrases).
All melodies should be quantized to 1/8 or 1/16.
Melody notes should not overlap.
All melody notes should be on white keys.
Melodies should have been created with the Octave of the Musical Typing window set to C3.
The outro should be the same as the chorus, but with a Drummer track Outro region.
The key/chord of all choruses and the outro should be changed.
All choruses and the outro should be changed by the same transposition — e.g., all by +5, or all by -7, etc.
An instrument that is not melody, drums, or playing in the Intro should be deleted from Verse 1.
A different instrument that is not melody, drums, or playing in the Intro should be deleted from Verse 1, Verse 2, and Chorus 1.
A loop from the Tambourine or Shaker Instrument categories of the loop browser should be in Chorus 3 and the Outro, looped as necessary to take up the full 16 measures.
A loop from the Vocals Instrument category and the Single Descriptors category of the loop browser, with the correct Scale chosen, should be in the Outro, looped as necessary to take up the full eight measures.
Live users should adhere to these requirements:
The form of your song should be as follows, with eight measures per section (except where indicated) and locators at the beginnings of all sections:
Intro (four measures)
Verse 1
Verse 2
Chorus 1
Verse 3
Chorus 2
Bridge
Chorus 3
Outro
The content of all verses should be the same, and the content of all choruses and the outro should be the same.
The intro should consist of the verse clips without the melody.
The bridge should have the InstV verse clips in the InstV track and the InstC chorus clips in the InstC track, stopping one measure before the end of the bridge.
A new melody should be composed for the bridge, following these same melody requirements that were used previously:
The melody should have two- or four-measure phrases only.
There should be some melodic structure (i.e., repetition of phrases).
All melodies should be quantized to 1/8 or 1/16.
Melody notes should not overlap.
All melody notes should be from the white keys of the computer MIDI keyboard.
The outro should be the same as the chorus, but with a Drummer track Outro region.
For one of these tracks (or pairs of tracks), Intro and Verse 1 clips should be deactivated:
Inst
InstV and InstC
Bass
Drums1
For a different one of these same tracks (or pairs of tracks), Intro, Verse 1, Verse2 , and Chorus 1 clips should be deactivated.
A new drum loop selected from the same browser locations used previously should enter in the bridge and continue through the end of the song in the Drums2 track, with a one measure break at the end of the bridge.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Upload the project file for the song as a submission for this assignment. A project file is a GarageBand file or a Live file. The file extensions for these are:
.band for GarageBand files
.als for Live files
Special note for GarageBand users: Canvas will not accept GarageBand files as assignment submissions in their native .band form. Instead, they must be compressed into .zip files. There are two ways to compress a GarageBand file:
Automatic Compression With Chrome. Use the Google Chrome browser to upload the GarageBand file to Canvas. Chrome will compress it automatically during the upload. Chrome can be obtained hereLinks to an external site..
Manual Compression. Compress the GarageBand file into a .zip file before uploading it, then upload the .zip file. Apple has compression instructions hereLinks to an external site.. Note that a GarageBand file must be closed before compressing it. An open GarageBand file will not compress.
