SUMMARY

Role

Drummer

Intention (SMART Goal) for the Session

To utilize my high hat pedal more.

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

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

Martin utilizes his high hat pedal in this video but more importantly in Opeth’s discography.

Primary Source

This is yet again an excellent cover from this dude displaying this/these techniques

Secondary Source

Training Source(s)

That video honestly works for my training video as well as secondary source.

Project Timeline

Pre-production Milestones

  • Thing 1
  • Thing 2
  • Thing 3

Production Milestones

  • Thing 1
  • Thing 2
  • Thing 3

Post-production

  • Thing 1
  • Thing 2
  • Thing 3

Proposed Budget

A budget will be completed during Session 5, 2024

Evidence of Team Planning and Decisions

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PRODUCTION – ACTION

The (FILM, SOUND, or GAME Creation)

Skills Commentary

POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION

21st Century Skills

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

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)

Reactions to the Final Version

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

Grammar and Spelling

Editor

Preparing a Film/Game/Song Pitch TEMPLATE

  • Simon

LOGLINE

I definitely didn’t explain this very well up in front of the class. What I was trying to say is that we don’t just prioritize beauty, but the concept itself. The concept of beauty has become linked to being a good person or a person of value to the point where people feel the need to proclaim beauty in the old, almost as a way to comfort themselves. You aren’t meant to look beautiful when you’re really old you know. You’ll probably have wrinkles and that’s kind of just tough shit to be honest. I really started thinking about this last year when reading “The Beauty Myth” by Naomi Wolf. This really stuck out to me though when I was watching Barbie. There is a scene where Barbie sees an older version of herself and cries. Many people saw this as Barbie recognizing the beauty in her old age. At the end of the day, an old lady sitting next to Margot Robbie ain’t making it far in the beauty competition and why would we he expect her to or act like she does. I see this a lot online and in real life in something as seemingly harmless like a skin-care routine. On its own, you’re just keeping your skin clean and healthy but there are many people obsessed with the concept as a way of remaining young for as long as possible. Why is that? Because to be young is to be beautiful. To be beautiful is to have value.

  • Simon

PROTAGONIST 

Whoever is writing the lyrics to this song.

  • Simon

PROTANGIONST CORE WOUND / MOTIVATION 

They would just want to share their opinions about this “issue”.

  • Simon

GENRE

Maybe hard rock, progressive rock per-chance.

INFLUENCES and EXAMPLES

I’m feeling more Alter Bridge for this lowkey. Like progressive but nothing over 7 minutes really.

Audio Recording Sound Safari

By Simon Parr

Microphone

Summary

  • I took pictures of my teammates speaking into a microphone. These teammates include Dierdra Skinner, Connor Pratt, and Gavin Crosswy.

Voice Recording

Outdoor/Environment Recording

Instrument Recording

What I Learned & Problems I Solved

  • I learned that microphones don’t all possess the same qualities and that depending on the situation you might prefer one over the other. I also got to spend more time working within a team with something not inherently music-related.
  • We struggled to find a way to send the pictures from my phone to everyone else on the team but with help from Connor and Liam, we were able to figure out how to convert my images to be useable in a MAC/computer format.
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Recommendation for Liam

Liam Skinner knows how to compose songs at an extremely high level. Liam and I have been working together since 7th grade, jamming out metal tunes in jazz band. His songwriting skills are unmatched in his field and his mastery of odd time signatures and polymeters display top notch technical proficiency. Even with all of this being said, Liam is also a very compassionate friend and bandmate that always checks in with everyone to make sure they’re on the same page. If you want a guitar player who can crank out new songs consistently and efficiently, Liam is your guy.

Session 4 2024 SMART Goal Project

SUMMARY

Focus / Instrument

Drums

Intention (SMART Goal)

By March 1, as part of TEAM 2 as a drummer, I will have evidence of double bass proficiency by following those two videos and actually focusing on longer bursts of speed for Session 4.

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

Primary

The Song

Secondary

This is an excellent cover of this song. The ghost notes are extremely smooth and add so much to the song. With regards to my main focus this session though, the double bass patterns are quite intricate and executed at a very high level. I hope I can get to this level someday even though I wouldn’t watch something like this a learn a whole lot. It’s just a great watch you know?

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

Training Source(s)

Samus has been a great drum YouTuber so it was nice seeing a tutorial from him. He really showed me that just slowing the whole process down can help me get this technique down and it will be very beneficial for the band. I can already do heel-toe on my right foot I just gotta get my left cooking.
Technically this video is unavailable on school computers but gives an in-depth analysis of the drum parts written by Meshuggah’s drummer, Tomas Haake. It’s a very interesting watch and it becomes abundantly clear that this dude is an absolute machine. It does make the parts at least appear more doable though.

SMART Goal Milestone Schedule

We will have a rough recording of our song by the end of next week and we will record the final version of the song by the last week of the session.

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)

I had to work outside my comfort zone with the speed at which I played the double bass at the beginning and even the trap-style high-hat groove at the beginning of the song. A lot of this is due to how much the music allowed me to innovate or even re-innovate my style on drums.

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)

I let everyone else communicate with me once the ideas were formed and expressed my ideas for the drum parts with the group.

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)

I used Garageband.

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)

This as per usual strengthens the teamwork elements of everyday life. I feel we’ve really found our groove in the songwriting process.

Reactions to the Final Version

Keith said that we should work on the transition from when we all drop out and it is just Connor

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

Honestly, I’m pretty happy with my parts on this song. They feel familiar but different from the work we’ve done before. I like that we stay around 4-6 with the time signatures instead of 7s and 9s. I want to do more with high hat pedal in the future though.

Grammar and Spelling

Grammarly

Editor

Aidan Parsons

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Sleep is your Superpower

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My balls are shrinking and so is my testosterone. This explains why women don’t go out with me. Sleep is important before and after learning. Hippocampus recieves new memory files and holds on to them. Big brain waves in deep stages of sleep. Deep sleep gets worse through age.

Summary

Learn Better Practicing Techniques from Dr. Molly Gebrian

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Better practice through sleeping. Practice throughout the week not all in one day buddy.

Summary

DATE GOES HERE Weekly Work Log

Session Number:2
Week Number:3
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: # goes here
What is/was your overall goal for this week? Goal goes here

Work Tasks 

Date Task Description Time Spent Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why? 
11-6Connor 4/4 song. Added new bridge part.1 hourThe bridge was expanded on very well and the parts sound good together at least for this practice.
11-7 More Connor 4/4 song. Finished song.1 hour Unfortunately my double bass skills are on the decline. This made it harder to finish the song.
11-8 Practiced Connor song and revisited 11/8 song 40 minutes. Realized that the 11/8 song may be a bit repetitive so we wrote a new part. It goes hard.
11-9 11/8 song hopefully finish. 50 minutes Work on the middle section. Connor and Liam need to start writing easier songs again.
No School   Veterans DayObserved

DATE GOES HERE Weekly Work Log

Session Number:2
Week Number:2
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: # goes here
What is/was your overall goal for this week? Goal goes here

Work Tasks 

Date Task Description Time Spent Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why? 
10-30Worked on 11/8 song and let Liam and Connor work out the ending.1 hour Had a lot of moving parts but somehow navigated it.
10-31 Kept working on 11/8 song and tried out another song that Connor pitched.1 hour Did a good job communicating and figuring out parts. New song goes hard. a
11-1 Kept working on Connor song. Shorter class period so not as much song structure stuff written. 35 minutes A lot of run throughs of what we had done. Played a lot after class and got a chunk of skin lopped off.
11-2 Connor song developed more. Breakdown in the works. 1 hour  Very productive practice. Parts are coming together. Noticing fluctuation in my double bass speed unfortunately.
11-3 Continuing to develop the structure. Practicing the stuff already written. 1 hour We really focused on the break down and specifically what I’m going to play. That’s a first am I right he he haha ah

Devil’s Advocate Production Project

SUMMARY

Role

Drums

Intention (SMART Goal)

By Oct. 12, as part of team # as The drummer, I will have evidence of Learned “The pot” by Tool by following This video for Session 1.

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

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

Danny Carrey is one of the most prolific and influential drummers of our time. His excellent work with different time signatures and compositions for Tool make him one of the best drummers in the world today. This interview allowed me to get to know him more as someone who doesn’t listen to Tool on the daily or quite frankly ever.

Training Source(s)

Intro

Snare Pattern

kick pattern

Both together

They line up after 2 bars

4/4 chunk split into two groups

Takes a bit for the parts to line up

The part in the video is easier than the beginning that isn’t taught.

Kind of following the rest of the band

Mainly focusing on tempo with this one.

Gonna have to work on the intro another time.

Project Timeline

Proposed Budget

Evidence of Team Planning and Decisions

PRODUCTION – ACTION

Chord Song

The (FILM, SOUND, or GAME Creation)

Skills Commentary

Slideshow

POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION

21st Century Skills

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

The most innovative aspect of this session was honestly the experimentation in regards to time signature and song structure. We really pushed ourselves to write new, and different material than our songs last year and I think it produced great results.

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)

This time around with communication the songwriting happened a lot right in front of my eyes. Liam and Connor also worked hard to collaborate outside of school as well.

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)

I learned how to use GarageBand with the headphones to a larger extent.

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)

We’ve been given multiple opportunities for gigs and shows around town and they have proven to be very fulfilling. This would be a great career.

Reactions to the Final Version

Keith enjoyed the transitions in the song and the cohesiveness with the structure. April said we should fix bass mix.

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

I enjoyed this song that Connor brought to the table. No more odd time signatures please and thank you.

Grammar and Spelling

Editor

Liam

June 12th – 16th Weekly Work Log

Session Number:6
Week Number:4
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: 4
What is/was your overall goal for this week? To write my drum part and iron out the song we were working on

Work Tasks 

Date Task Description Time Spent Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why? 
6/12Surgery 
6/13 We worked on our song, it had been a little bit since we had all worked together since I hadn’t seen Connor or Liam 5 days. I missed them dearly though and I quickly adapted to the left foot meta.1 hour This is a best practice because the team was excited to work together again the subtraction of double bass patterns has made the song take on a whole different tone.
 6/14I enjoyed the jam session on Wednesday. Everything really started flow well and the song structure started coming together. 45 minutes This is a best practice because we were able to focus on Liam’s solo part for the first time
 6/15 This was a fun practice but I had to leave early. 45 minutes It is a best practice because I communicated early on that I was going to have to leave early.
 6/16 I worked on my blog post and worked on Liam song. 30 This practice went well.I like Liam a lot.

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