I hope you enjoyed working with the I-IV-V-vi slices in Ableton Live today. I hope you were able to make some cool grooves out of them. You will will eventually structure your grooves into progressions, and ultimately into compositions.
For homework tonight, please go to the SPLICE website and register for a free account using your Pingree email address. You do not need to download the Splice software on your personal computer at this time, but you may do so at some point in the future if we decide it would be worthwhile for you to start using Ableton Live from home. I will show you how to use Splice in class tomorrow so that you may easily share your work with me and one another. It's pretty cool, and free!
And as I mentioned in class, select one of the songs that you posted to your blog over the weekend, and REALLY get to know the chord progression well. Know it so well that you are able to sing the numbers of the chords along with them while they change. You should know it well enough that you could sing through the bass/chord progression without the recording playing. If you want to take things to the next level (which we will do in class tomorrow anyway) you can use a blank rhythm necklace so you can determine the exact beat of when each chord change happens. Your progression may change on the downbeat of each measure, or you may find they change in a variety of places. The task in class tomorrow will be to recreate that chord progression (using correct chords and rhythmic placement) using the Ableton Live slice set.
For homework tonight, please go to the SPLICE website and register for a free account using your Pingree email address. You do not need to download the Splice software on your personal computer at this time, but you may do so at some point in the future if we decide it would be worthwhile for you to start using Ableton Live from home. I will show you how to use Splice in class tomorrow so that you may easily share your work with me and one another. It's pretty cool, and free!
And as I mentioned in class, select one of the songs that you posted to your blog over the weekend, and REALLY get to know the chord progression well. Know it so well that you are able to sing the numbers of the chords along with them while they change. You should know it well enough that you could sing through the bass/chord progression without the recording playing. If you want to take things to the next level (which we will do in class tomorrow anyway) you can use a blank rhythm necklace so you can determine the exact beat of when each chord change happens. Your progression may change on the downbeat of each measure, or you may find they change in a variety of places. The task in class tomorrow will be to recreate that chord progression (using correct chords and rhythmic placement) using the Ableton Live slice set.
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