School of Rock – Day 11 – Collaboration and Growth – Part 1

• 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 Goal Page underneath your goal statement.
• Create a heading titled, ‘July 13th Work’.
• Write one descriptive paragraph detailing WHAT YOU DID and LEARNED today
• … AND THEN DELETE ALL THESE WORDS!

• In the practice room we worked on our plan for or collaboration and chose to do the song glimpse of us. I also updated Trello and added a few new tasks so we can reach our goal of 22. We are currently at 14/22.

• The Music Theory of POWER CHORD
• SongExploder.net 
• Holistic Songwriting’s Artist Series
• Genius’ Songs Deconstructed Series
• What Makes This Song Great Series
• SongExploder.net

During classroom I started recording and worked out who will do which tasks with Nyla and Clinton. Clinton started recording piano and we worked on the audio together. I started learning the bass and the lyrics.

• 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
• Write a reflection on what you learned – AND THEN DELETE THESE WORDS!

During lab I reviewed what I have learned for our song and made notes for me to memorize and added some new tasks to to trello for our collaboration. I updated trello and added lyrics to memorize to tasks.

During my outside time I thought about what tasks I could add to trello to meet the minimum requirement. I cam up with some ideas and we now have 22/22 tasks.

• The Music Theory of POWER CHORDS
• Holistic Songwriting’s Playlists
• Songwriting Corner
• Songwriting Exercises (you do not need the cards)
• 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

During studio time Nyla and I went into the recording room and practiced the vocals for our collaboration.

• Soundtrap tutorial 5 – Arranging the song, Mixing and adding effects
• all five videos in the playlist
• Soundtrap Support (Effects and Mixing)
• Swick’s Classroom Recreating Chainsmokers

I spent this time practicing vocals with Nyla on our song. We practiced using our falsettos and reaching the higher notes in the song. At the end of this time we both were able to sing the beginning and chorus of the song.

• Today I mainly worked on collaborating and we solved our problem with feedback while recording.