A handful of students have finished their accompaniment tracks and are beginning to lay down live tracks. They had the options of using voices or their band instruments for the live tracks but so far all have elected to do vocal tracks.
The kids are recording the tracks using my Yeti microphone. I am a big proponent of using a quality external mic for this project rather recording using the Macbook internal microphone. The Yeti produces a near-professional quality recording and the kids deserve for their hard work to sound as polished as possible. A couple of them have mentioned that they were very impressed that I "know how to do this kinda stuff." After they lay down their vocals I introduce them to the GarageBand vocal effects features and allow them to play around with adding effects to their vocal tracks.
After all of the kids have completed the project I am going to upload the final products to the class wikispace website so that they can listen to their classmates' work and discuss it on the discussion boards. I am also planning to burn a class album of all of their final projects to give to them as an end-of-year gift.
I am hoping to wrap up the entire GarageBand unit in the next three weeks. After that we need to shift into full-time band rehearsals to prepare for the band concert. A lot of rehearsal and lesson time has been sacrificed due to the state tests and we're going to need to do a big final push to have the music polished and performance-ready in time for the concert.
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