1. The name of my piece is Cruisin’(4:15)
2. This song is supposed to be something to play while relaxing with friends or “cruisin’” in your car. I also wanted it to reflect more of what I would listen to on my own time. I attempted to rewire my Live and use Reason instead because that is the program I am more familiar with and would allow me to create a better project. I recorded it into Live but I’m not sure if I did it right. I started with a small loop and went from there. In Reason, I used strings from the combinator and I labeled them as chord string (because I played a chord on the keyboard) and scale string (I played a scale on the keyboard). I used the Jazz guitar from the combinator and the saxophone from the combinator as well. All of the percussion was done with the redrum machine. I used an M-Audio Keyboard with drum pads (used to make the percussion parts) in order to make all the components of the piece. Unfortunately, I didn’t use any of my found sounds because the folder containing them is MIA. So I had to rely heavily on sound banks. I didn’t really put any effects on the sounds except for using the features provided in the combinator to enhance the sound bank sounds (mainly delay,brightness and compression) but instead I tried to focus on not making the piece get too monotonous because that was something I struggled with this semester.
3. As far as originality is concerned all of the sounds used were from the sound banks provided I didn’t really use any samples than those. It was influenced by the nice weather and summer being close by almost like a Will Smith “Summertime” type of feel to it. For me i’d say its about an 8 out of 10 because I enlisted some outside help (like todd suggested).
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(Final song)
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