8/2/2019 Amy Winehouse - Rehab - 20053351
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I found this project very tricky and time-consuming very hard to
do at first. It took me a while to get
used to positioning all the notes in the correct place of the
bar but I did get the hang of it. Once I got
the hang of putting the notes in the bar correctly I began to
enjoy doing the project.
I first began by making it the correct tempo and creating a
track. I used this one for the vocal notes. I
changed the view to show only the treble clef and then began to
input the notes from the sheet
music into the score one by one
I then added the second track that was for the instrument notes.
I did this by adding a new software
instrument and command-clicking the timeline to add regions.
Once the regions have been inputted
its then possible to input the notes after selecting the right
note from the insert options of the notes
and then holding the command button, moving the note into
position and clicking. If the note isnt in
quite the right place or needs to be a sharp, you can then
select that note and using the up and
down arrows on the keyboard, change the notes position and the
sharps and flats. I had to do this a
number of times to accurately position the notes and to make
them have the correct sound.
8/2/2019 Amy Winehouse - Rehab - 20053351
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I did this for both of the instruments and vocal sections.
I did have some problems with picking the notes for the
triplets. Once I picked the notes that makethe triplets it changed
all of my notes on the score. It moved them and added triplets
where they
werent supposed to be and messed up where the notes were
positioned which also altered the
bars. I then had to go through it bar-by-bar and note-by-note to
fix it as I couldnt find another way.
This was like starting the project over again. To make sure it
didnt happen again I found another
way to enter in the triplets. I put an eight note on the score
and then switched to piano roll and
found it there. I switched snap-to-grid off and then changed the
size of the note to cover three
squares, then pressed and held the alt button and selected the
note. This copied the note exactly
and I then placed it next to the original bar. I did this twice
so that there are three bars covering 9
little squares. This created the triplet without doing anything
to the rest of the notes. I then switched
snap-to-grid on again and used the up and down arrows to
position them correctly.
Once I had placed all the notes I then added another track and
copied and pasted the vocal notes
into it. I then began to mess around with the different
instruments available and find out which ones
worked best together to make my song different. I did this by
selecting the track and going into
software instruments and picking them from there.
I also used loops. I clicked the loop button and then filtered
through the different loops to find the
right one and added it to the tracks. I then changed the volume
of the different instruments so that
they would complement each other better by using the volume
slider on the tracks.
Altogether I learned a lot from doing this project, I still feel
theres a lot more to learn but I definitely
improved my skills on Garageband. This will make it easier for
the final project when I will make my
own song.
