SUMMARY
The majority of today was spent finishing songs with Andreas
LEADERSHIP ACTIVITY
- EVERYONE: Write a couple sentence update about what you completed on your ‘afternoon’ project in this section of this blog post.
- Remember to also add an entry to your SMART Goal Page underneath your goal statement.
- Create a heading titled, ‘July 19th Work’.
Progress For Today
- Welcome to show and tell, well sorta, one more time!
- Embed media as evidence of today’s progress (SHOW)
- EXAMPLE: a YouTube video of your practicing guitar
- EXAMPLE: Soundcloud audio of a song idea
- EXAMPLE: a screenshot image of Soundtrap or HookLab tracks
- Write an update about your leadership project progress (TELL)
- Delete Mr. Le Duc’s instructions – yes, these instructions – yes the instructions you are reading right now!
PRACTICE ROOM (GUITAR LESSONS)
- Continue Justin’s 117 Free Lessons YouTube Playlist
- Embed a YouTube video link or links you watched (Just one is fine)
- Want a bigger challenge?
- Complete Jake Lizzio’s 5 blues guitar tutorials
- Check his channel, you won’t regret it!
- Read How to Practice Guitar Chords: Exercises, Tips, and Advice
Andreas and I finished writing the lyrics for our second song
CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)
- Explore SongExploder.net episodes
- Explore Holistic Songwriting’s Artist Series
- Explore Genius’ Songs Deconstructed Series
- Explore Rick Beato’s What Makes This Song Great Series
- Embed a YouTube video link you watched or the link of the SongExploder.net episode
Andreas and I started recording vocals for our second song
LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)
- Explore the tutorials (but you do not need to watch all of them – just pick what looks interesting to you) from the:
- Hooktheory.com/videos
- Songwriting Series. (4 videos)
- Lyrics to music videos (2 videos)
- Embed a YouTube video link or links you watched
Andreas and I continued recording vocals for our second song
OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)
- Watch Shawn Anchor’s TED talk about happiness
- “We believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards? In this fast-moving and very funny talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that, actually, happiness inspires us to be more productive.” – TED.com
- Go for a walk and think about what this video meant to you.
We started mixing the vocals and beat for our second song.
STUDIO (SONGWRITING)
- Watch and practice any of the following playlists on YouTube
- Holistic Songwriting’s Playlists
- Specifically: Songwriting Corner
- Specifically: Songwriting Exercises (you do not need the cards)
- Specifically: 5 Minute Lessons
- Jake Lizzio’s Signals Music Studio Playlists
- Andrew Huang’s Playlists
- Paul David’s Playlists
- Rick Beato’s Playlists
- Marty Schwartz’s Playlists
- Mary Spender’s Playlists
- Holistic Songwriting’s Playlists
- Embed a YouTube video link or links you watched
Andreas and I rerecorded and mixed the vocals for our first song.
CONTROL ROOM (RECORDING & MIXING)
- Watch Clark Eagling: Soundtrap tutorial 5 – Arranging the song, Mixing and adding effects
- Watch all five videos in the playlist, if you are interested.
- Use Soundtrap Support (Effects and Mixing)
- Search for other creative people online using Soundtrap and see how they are using it, like Swick’s Classroom Recreating Chainsmokers on Soundtrap.
- Embed a YouTube video link or links you watched
We continued mixing vocals and arranging our second song
WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
One thing I learned today is that its much better to spend time practicing your vocals to perfection then spending time later trying to fix it.
TODAY’s ACTIVITY EVALUATION
- Give feedback on the class Content and Process
- Participation will be part of your leadership project due at the end of the course
- Fill in the Daily Activity Evaluation