July 6

This morning Jordan and I completed a cover of "Friday". There's more we could add in terms of harmonies, etc., but we think for now this is a pretty solid track. We're working on trying to get it converted to an mp3, because I think having my own cover of something on my ipod would be awesome. This is kind of a tricky process, because we have a whole bunch of tracks in both sonar AND reason, so getting them to save together is a challenge.
I do think that this is an important thing to teach students. It is really fun to create something and be able to take it home and listen to it, so being able to burn discs or create sendable files is really important.
Once Jordan and I finished that, Erin and I worked on harmonies for "All the Right Moves". Erica had already recorded a vocal track (which she may want to edit later on, there's a little bit of clipping toward the end), but we added a few extra parts and also a piano ostinato that makes the orchestration sound more complete. This track is getting pretty close to being completed as well.
I learned how to do a fade-out in Reason today, with help from Jordan, so now if we have a rewire in Sonar we can do a fade of the entire song. That is a really practical skill, and I'm glad I know how to do it now.
Other than those projects, there's not much reading to be done, so I suppose I'll just find another song to work through, as this seems to be the best way to get myself familiar with the software. After lunch I might bring in my saxophone to see what we can do with those sounds, moving in the direction of a new synthesized instrument.
More updates to come later in the day!
Beth