SUMMARY

Overall, getting to learn more about different music terms was very beneficial for me. As well as getting to experiment on my own.

CLASSROOM

Notes:

• Music expresses a lot of different things, love, loss, etc.

• Penta=five

• Black notes on the keyboard are the pentatonic notes

• The notes you chose, how high or low, etc.

• Once you get a basic tune, you can add more to it

• Music helps tells stories

• Music genres is often inspired by different genres.

LAB

When experimenting with Hook Pad, I learned that if you wanted to makes notes flat/sharp, you had to make it chromatic.

OUTSIDE / JOURNAL / IDEAS

• You do feel fear when doing the things you love

• You feel doomed once something is a fluke

• Assumptions are dangerous

• Creative minds should be encouraged

• Anxiety about the future

• People believed that creativity was a spirit

• They believed a geniuses were magical beings

• Fear of never being that good again

• We do our part, it’s not our fault

• We are unequal

STUDIO

Melody Composition Terms

• Theme- a longer, more flowing melodic idea
• Motive- a short, rhythmic idea(Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony)
• Period- 8 measures
• Phrase- 4 measures
• Antecedent (Question) Phrase- First Phrase
• Consequent (Answer) Phrase- Second Phrase
• Scale Degrees
  • Tonic- one scale degree creates a feeling of stability and resolution
  • Supertonic, Mediant, Submediant- scale degrees with a moderate level of tension
  • Dominant, Subdominant, Leading Tone- several scale degrees create a high level of tension/need to resolve to tonic
• Steps- any movement using half or whole steps
• Leaps- any movement using intervals larger than a whole step
• Conjunct motion- melody built primarily out of steps
• Disjunct motion- melody built primarily using leaps
• Repetition- use repeated material to create a link between the two phrases of a period
• Contrast- write two phrases that contain contrasting material to create tension and interest
• Variation- half way between repetition and contrast, the two phrases include some recognizable material and some varied material

Melody Resources

( Key of C Major Notes and Chords Chart )

CONTROL ROOM

Learn how to Create Tracks

Explore the Piano Roll, Drawing and Moving Notes

Learn to Edit Notes, Velocity, and More

Learn to Create Your Own Presets

Overall this process was easy to follow, the only problem I had was actually creating something because I didn’t know what to do.

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

A problem I solved was that I couldn’t hear the piano at first when it was plugged into my computer but then I realized my volume was off and fixed that. I learned how to experiment with music and create music freely without a specific plan.