UNIT 7

COMPOSING
MUSIC

STRUCTURAL
APPRECIATION
Proof of structural appreciation in my Alt Hip-Hop Instrumental

Proof of structural appreciation in my Alt Hip-Hop Instrumental

Proof of structural appreciation in my Relaxing Composition

Proof of structural appreciation in my Television Opening Theme Structural

Appreciation

Here is a project I did where I had songs given to me as an uncut and unlabeled
track in logic and I cut, labeled and coloured correctly the structure of each song.
I labeled the Intro, verses; choruss; solos, middle 8s, any variations & the outro/
codas of each song.
I then began to create my own little song using the parts I had cut apart to see if just
using the song structures I could make a song mix.

COMPOSITION 1
ALT HIP-HOP INSTRUMENTAL
I started this composition by firstly taking the time to browse through Logics library
of MIDI sounds and selected some that I thought would sound good together.
Starting with bass I played in with a MIDI Keyboard controller and adjusted it all
with the Piano Roll in Logic. I chose to carry this composition on due to personal
musical taste and found this was something I would like to hear from an artist.

Piano Roll of Finished Verse Bass Line

Finished Chorus Bass line

Picture of the Musical Score from the Verse 1 Bass line

The Logic ultrabeat synthesizer on Logic which I used to manipulate the sound of
certain hits of the drum which I used on this song

COMPOSITION 2
RELAXATION MUSIC
I started this composition pretty much the same way as the Alt Hip-Hop one by
spending time to go through Logics built in MIDI sounds until I found a group of
instruments I thought complimented each other well to create a mix that I found
appealing.
I chose to carry this one on because I found it interesting and thought it would be a
challenge to try and make something like this. I listened to some relaxing music on
YouTube to gain inspiration on which kinds of instruments to use in my composition.

This is what the finished Piano Roll looked like once I played everything in and
Quantized it

This is a picture of the musical score from bar 5-6 of the relaxing composition

This is what the finished structure looked like just before I bounced it

COMPOSITION 3
TELEVISION SHOW INTRO THEME
I started this composition like the others (How I start anything I make apparently)
by scouring Logics library of MIDI sounds and just playing around on a MIDI
keyboard controller to see if any of the notes I play in sound like something
original and something I like.
I continued with this composition as I thought Id try to make an intro for a specific
genre of television programme which in my head was something similar to a sci-fi
style programme.

Finished Piano Roll of the lead guitar part of this composition which is played
during the intro, verse, chorus and then slightly alternating in the outro

Finished musical score of the lead guitar section of this composition

Finished structure of the television show composition which shows how I

copied parts of the lead guitar to the strings then slightly edited the timings
and some notes in the piano roll so they play together fluently

Showing the ultrabeat synthesizer and that I manipulated the sound within this
synthesizer to alter some of the clap pitches

What I did to extend, develop and manipulate sounds in these songs was
to look into song structure and see that a lot of different musical genres
followed patterns with Intros, verses, choruss, bridges, middle 8s and
an outro/coda. I used this knowledge and applied it to what I had played in
with the MIDI keyboard for the verses & choruss to copy them over and
create a second and third verse/chorus with the same structure.
I created choruss/verses and placed them between the verses/chorus.
I recognized that something sounded off about this and that there was too
fast of a transition between the verses and choruss so I created bridges
to put between the verses and choruss so that they blended together a
lot better.
I looked through Logic library and created a backing beat with MIDI drums
which I thought sounded suitable on each track for the sound I was trying
to create.
Once I was happy with what I had down, I adjusted some sounds with
logics in house synthesizers. I was mainly adjusting Pitch and the
envelopes which is the Attack, Sustain, Decay and Release because the
sounds I had fit well but might have been just a little off with added reverb
or other inserts.