Today Jean Yap came into our class to teach us about her specialty: Music Technology. She briefly introduced us to the software she uses called Ableton Live. She said she likes her approach to songs because it's much more dynamic compared to writing stiffly and with restrictions like when "Oh there will be 4 bars of intro, then the pre-chorus, chorus," etc. Then she raised the example of the popular song Uptown Funk, and how there were only 2 chords, but the main thing that changed the texture were the different sounds and instruments added. Mr. Karena added in about the 5 basic parts of a drum. There is the bass/kick drum (lowest), the high hat(crosses), the snare(high), the crash, and the tom(s).
Jean's email is jean_yap01@hotmail.com
For the rest of the lesson we played with the keyboards and Ableton and practiced our solo performances. This first screenshot is my rendition of a basic drum beat in common time. The second is my attempt at incorporating a piano jingle, but as you can see I hadn't yet balanced it yet so some sounds are longer or shorter than others.
