Roll up people, welcome to round two of your speed composing challenge. Following on from last weeks excellent work, today we will be completing another speed composing task, but this time with a tighter time restriction.
The purpose of this work is to help polish up your sequencing skills and speed up workflow, our aim is to enable you to be able to realise your compositional ideas more quickly and therefore have a more flowing compositional experience..
So for todays SPEED COMPOSING CHALLENGE:
RHYTHM TRACK - 5 MINUTES
1. Create a new GB project - call it SPEED COMPOSING TWO
2. First choose a new tempo - NOT 120 BPM (the default GB tempo).
3. You have 5 minutes to create a one bar DRUM KIT RHYTHM GROOVE
4. Copy (not loop) for four bars.
5. In bar 4 create a stylistically appropriate DRUM FILL.
6. Copy this four bar so that you have a total of 8 BARS.
NOW MOVE ON THREE WORKSTATIONS TO THE RIGHT
HARMONY - 10 MINUTES
1. Add a harmony part - this can be any keyboard instrument or guitar. The sequence should last 4 BARS, so this will be a three or four chord sequence. Remember that if you choose a three chord sequence one of the three chords must last for two bars.
2. Create a contrasting chord sequence to fill the next four bars.
3. Add a bassline to accompany both chord sequences.
NOW MOVE ON THREE WORKSTATIONS TO THE RIGHT
MELODY - 10 MINUTES
1. Add a melody to the both chord sequences. You can use any instrument that is stylistically appropriate.
STOP!
NOW HAVE A LISTEN TO ALL YOUR FABULOUS COMPOSITIONS AND EVALUATE YOUR SUCCESS AND AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT
