
Goal
- Convey knowledge of drum and percussion terms and understanding of concepts of rhythm production in GarageBand.
Recording Techniques Demonstrated
- Control Timing with Groove Tracks
- Follow the Rhythm of Another Track
- Record Multipass Drum Beats
- Record Arpeggiated Drum Machine Beats
- Make Recorded MIDI Regions Loop Ready
- Make Recorded Audio Regions Loop-Ready
- Add Regions to the Loop Library
- Work with the Tempo of a Track
Terms and Concept Definitions
How Music Works: Rhythm
- Rhythm
- Beat
- Accent
- Pulse
- Sub-division
- Syncopation
- Jazz
- Cross Rhythm
- Latin Push
Rhythm Recording Terms
- Meter
- Pacing
- Tempo
- Out of the Pocket
- Quantize
- Single Take
- Multipass Recording
- Overdub
- Loop
Product
- Create a blog post with embedded media from YouTube, SoundCloud, and/or Flickr off your composition and explanation of the rhythm recording techniques used.
Examples
- Cassy’s post (video)
- Chance’s post (video)
- Joe’s post (video)
- Spencer’s post (screenshots and descriptive text)
- Mikayla’s post (screenshots and descriptive text)
- Maddy’s post (screenshots and descriptive text)
- Riley’s post (screenshots and descriptive text)
- Taylor’s post (screenshots and descriptive text)
- Joe’s post (videos and screenshots)
- Clint’s post (videos and screenshots)
- Emily’s post (Voicethread)
- Kinsey’s post (screenshots and descriptive text)
- Mayah’s post (screenshots and descriptive text)
- Carson’s post (screenshots and descriptive text)
- Blake’s post (screenshots and descriptive text)
- Ethan’s post (video)
- Amanda’s post (online sequencer)
Steps
- Day 1 – Create Blog Post, Add Section Headings, and Define Terms
- Create blog post titled, Rhythm Recording Project
- Create the headings
- Summary
- My First Rhythm
- My Favorite Rhythm
- My Second Rhythm
- Terms and Concepts
- What I Learned
- Create a simple rhythm
- Upload to SoundCloud
- Take a screenshot of the beat pattern in the software (GarageBand) and upload to Flickr
- Embed both under the My First Rhythm heading
- Day 2-5 – Refine Terms and Start Drum and Percussion Lessons in GarageBand
- Under the Terms and Concepts Defined heading
- Copy and paste all the terms
- Working in teams: start writing the definitions in your own words
- Watch the Howard Goodal video on rhythm
- Take notes
- Finish tutorials/training
- Under the Terms and Concepts Defined heading
- Day 5 through second to last day of project
- Work on composition
- Project parameters
- 8 measures (can be longer, but only publish the first 8 measures)
- Needs a distinct rhythm and melody track
- So we can hear each piece clearly
- Needs to have at least one real-world sound, not computer generated
- Needs to be hosted on Soundcloud and the link embedded into a blog post
- So we can hear it on the class sound system
- Melody decisions
- Rhythm decisions – what to use and when
- Pulse
- What timing 4/4, 2/4, or other
- Tempo
- Think about how many beats per measure
- Fast = happy
- Slow = sad
- Think about how many beats per measure
- Accent
- Pick a beat in each measure to be the strongest beat
- Syncopation
- Read Syncopation in pop/rock music
- He uses Musescore, free music scoring software for Mac
- Cross-rhythm
- You could have overlapping rhythms like in rap
- Rhythm decisions
- Pulse
- Tempo
- Accent
- Syncopation
- Cross-rhythm
- Pulse
- Create the Recording Techniques Demonstrated heading
- Gather evidence of rhythm recording techniques
- Include evidence as audio from Soundcloud, video from YouTube and/or images from Flickr
- 2nd To Last Day
- Create What I Learned heading
- Explain what you learned and at least one problem you overcame
- Create What I Learned heading
- Last Day
- Present project
Tools
- MuseScore
- GarageBand 10
- Soundcloud
- YouTube
- Flickr
Resources
- Syncopation in pop/rock music
- GarageBand Basics
- Working with Drum and Percussion Tracks
- Controlling Timing with Groove Tracks
- Following the Rhythm of Another Track
- Recording Multipass Drum Beats
- Recording Arpeggiated Drum Machine Beats
- Making Recorded MIDI Regions Loop Ready
- Making Recorded Audio Regions Loop-Ready
- Adding Regions to the Loop Library
- Working with the Tempo of a Track
- Adding ID3 tag information and art in iTunes
- Work on this in class with either GarageBand or Audacity
- Music Theory
- Rhythm defined at Wikipedia
- How Music Works with Howard Goodall – Rhythm
- GarageBand Basics Screencast Video Tutorial