Month: May 2023

Session Number:	6
Week Number:	1
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week:	4
What is/was your overall goal for this week?	start a new song on a old idea.

Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why?
5/30	get ideas on how to use the riffs i have made over the last month	40 min	yes because i had no idea where to go but now i have and idea.
5/31	put some of those riffs and ideas into garage band.	50 min	“
6/1	record symphonic elements to my song	40 min	“
6/2	listen to music	20 min

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Session Number:	5
Week Number:	9
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week:	5
What is/was your overall goal for this week?	rewrite the song again (round 4)



Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why?
5/16	tone experimentation.	50min	It was because Im want to take a new approach to my song.
5/18	start rewiring the opening to my song	20min	yes because I want a song that I like.
5/19	rewrite the majority of my song.	50min	“
5/20	write opening of my song	20 min	“



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Focus / Instrument

vocals and guitar

Intention (SMART Goal)

I will have evidence or a metal song by following this totorial by extream vocal instatute and what I have learned from my last attempts.

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

Leader(s) in the Field / Exemplary Work(s)

Will Ramos. the singer of the metal band Lorna shore and known as one of the best harsh vocalist.

Ben Durre: the singer for shadow of intent and is a well renowned metal vocalist and songwriter.

Nik Nocturnal: a guitarist and song writer that has made many big metal songs and has made his name known on the YouTube metal scene.

Training Source(s)

SMART Goal Schedule

5/7 start songwriting

5/13 finish guitar

5/20 finish drums

5/… finish song

PRODUCTION

SMART Goal Starting Point Evidence

SMART Goal Ending Point Evidence

POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION

21st Century Skills

Ways of Thinking (Creativity, Innovation, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving)

Had to learn how to write a song without a typical sounding guitar riff.

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)

Working with Simon on drums.

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)

I used GarageBand.

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)

Working fully solo for a long duration.

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

I think its my best song yet but i should have put more work into the symphonic elements of the song.

Grammar and Spelling

Editor

Austin

Session Number:	5
Week Number:	8
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week:	5
What is/was your overall goal for this week?	finish the guitar and songwriting for my new song

Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why?
5/8	re-wrote the guitar parts again and changed up the order of the song a bit.	50min	yes because i was not happy with the previous way i had the guitar and song organized.
5/9	write the breakdown and try to program drums for the song if possible.	50min	yes because the song needs drums and i want a breakdown in it.
5/10	play around with programming drums. (didn’t work.)	20 min	yes because my song needs drums.
5/11	coordinate with Simon about when to get drums in my song and mess around with the tempo feature in garage band.	40 min	yes because there is nothing else for me to do until i have drums in the song.
5/12	mess around with different riffs and debate if i need to rewrite the song again.		yes because the song still isnt what I wanted.

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Session Number:	5
Week Number:	7
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week:	5
What is/was your overall goal for this week?	start a new song or mix the last song.

Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why?
5/1	Idea gathered with symphonic elements on the midi keyboards. Found a cool cord progression and messing around with it.	50 min	overall yes because I got a few very good ideas that I will pursue but I got side-tracked from progress my other song.
5/2	go further in on my symphonic idea from the day prior. and follow up on Conner’s drop C idea he had yesterday.	50 min	yes because I am making progress to a song and ill postpone my current project till later, or ill work on it at home.
5/3	add guitar parts. try/trying to turn a symphony to a metal-core riff.	20 min	yes because I want a metal song but also was it to contain symphonic elements.
5/4	rewrite what i wrote yesterday because i rushed it.	50 min	yes because i am not happy with my work from yesterday
5/5	touch up some parts that were written yesterday. maybe extend the song a bit and fix up the bad song-writing.	50 min	yes because i want this to be a song im happy with.

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