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Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars Remix

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For this audio assignment I had to pick a speech, poem, or nursery rhyme and then use other songs to make it. I thought this would be easy but as I started working on it, I quickly realized why it was worth so many stars. I love music and know so many lyrics, but when you want to think of words in a song on the spot, my mind goes blank. I ended up just going through YouTube to find lyrics that would fit Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. I then downloaded the songs and brought them into Garage Band. Here I clipped the songs to get the words that I needed. Some songs I thought would work great but then when they were in the nursery rhyme they were unrecognizable. Words like ‘You’ and ‘Are’ were really challenging because most songs sing those small words fast. I got lucky with the second verse and found songs that worked for two words in a row, which made this so much easier. Eventually I figured out some and I think it turned out alright! Check it out below!

The songs in order are:

Your Just in Love – Keely Smith

Little More Country Than That – Easton Corbin

Flaming Star- Elvis Presley

Thats How Country Boys Roll – Billy Currington

I Just Called to say I Love You – Stevie Wonder

We Three Kings of Orient Are – Jennifer Avalon

What Do U Mean – Justin Bieber

Are you Ready – Taylor Swift

Teenager in Love – The Wailers

The World is Mine – David Guetta

So High – Rebelution

Diamonds – Rihanna

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Audio Assignment – A Story Of Lyrics

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When you lose, don’t lose the lesson

This assignment was one of my favorites so far, but also one of the more difficult. You are supposed to say out a quote, nursery rhyme, or something of that sort using one word from different songs. My quote was from a random western quote sight, so I don’t know who to credit it to, but I really like it. Doing this for a six word quote took long enough, I can’t imagine doing an entire nursery rhyme. I picked it namely because it was 4 and a half stars of difficulty, which finished my total of 8 after doing the sound effect story.

The songs I used are as follows:

When I Fall In Love – Nat King Cole

You Sent Me Flying – Amy Winehouse

Comes Love – Billie Holiday

Don’t Explain – Abbey Lincoln

The Story of My Life – Marty Robbins

In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning – Frank Sinatra

As you can see, most of the words are in the title, and I was just using songs I had on iTunes. Finding a good example of lose and lesson was hard, but by searching lyric sights I eventually found songs I owned with those words. I never realized how quickly “the” is used in speech until doing this, I went through 4 other songs before settling on the one I used. Once you have your songs selected, you bring everything into audacity, and find each word one by one. I learned about a useful feature this time, which was muting certain tracks. The first time I played a song trying to find its word, I got barraged by 6 songs playing at the same time. I didn’t really edit the actual words too much, just cut them out, adjusted the volume if necessary and faded each one in and out. Order them correctly, and voila, you have your saying.

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“A Man’s Got To Have Code.”

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I decided to take on the challenge of the audio assignment “A Story of Lyrics” (3 stars) and use a quote I recall from the beginning of The Wire from Bunk. For some reason I found and used another variation of the quote (I guess the quote is repeated later on in the series by someone else?), but for reference I found the original quote/epigraph from on YouTube (Season 1, Episode 7):

“A man must have a code.”

This audio assignment was harder than I thought! First I had to determine what songs had the words I needed to mix together. I downloaded all of the songs separately off of YouTube, then used Audacity to clip and position each “word clip”. For words that were too short, such as “a”, I tried to slow down the tempo, but the effect just made the clip sounds warped and unusable. It then became a difficult task finding songs where these words are sung slowly!

Another challenge was finding a song where the word “code” is sung slowly. I came across a unique artist by the name of Tori Amos, who has a song called “Code Red”. Wasn’t particular my preferred genre of music, but it did fit my lyric story perfectly! After combining all of the “word clips” I exported the file as an MP3 and uploaded the finished product to Sound Cloud.

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The Greek

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For this assignment, I did an epigraph from The Wire, season 2 episode 12.

Business, always business

I love this quote, it really sums up The Wire, and it similar to “it’s all in the game”

Process:

I just watched the episode and found times where people said the word ‘business’ or ‘always’. Then I recorded it into Audacity.

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To Infinity, and Beyond!

Well, since I did the rest of my stuff for the week and was bored today, I decided to come up with another assignment and complete it so I can add it to the assignment bank. I recreated a nursery rhyme using lyrics out of songs. Here is what I uploaded to Audacity (hopefully it doesn’t get taken down):

How I did it:

Well this took significantly longer than I thought it would to make. First I picked my nursery rhyme that I wanted to do–I used “Hush Little Baby” (but you could use an epigraph from The Wire, a nursery rhyme, a poem, a speech, anything really, have fun with it!). Then I thought about songs that would have words from the nursery rhyme. The list of songs I used is pretty long, at least longer than I thought it would have been. I used: Single Ladies-Beyonce, Hush-Deep Purple, How Forever Feels-Kenny Chesney, Mockingbird-Toby Keith, Wagon Wheel-Old Crow Medicine Show, I Won’t Let Go-Rascal Flatts, and Songs About Me-Trace Adkins.

I imported them one song at a time and found the words that I needed from them. I grabbed words by highlighting the section of the song that I needed and clicking EDIT>DUPLICATE. I listened to most of the song to get all of the words that I could from each song. Most songs I used more than one word from. Then once I had all of the words I needed (which took FOREVER), I ordered them. I could have done them out of order but it is a lot easier for my brain to operate when there is order. I moved tracks up and down and duplicated tracks until I had all of the words in the right order.

Then I made them all butt up next to each other so that they sounded like an actual sentence. Originally I was going to say “going to” instead of “gonna” so I had to cut out my “to”s in favor of the “gonna” that I already had. I then highlighted the whole thing and clicked EFFECT>EQUALIZATION to make all of the clips’ volumes the same to make it less distracting. Then, while the whole selection was still highlighted I clicked EFFECT>CHANGE TEMPO and I slowed it down by 25%. I sent it to my boyfriend and he said it was too fast so I slowed it down so it was more understandable. Some words were too long, though, like “Mockingbird” so I had to speed them back up 25% and move everything around so they were the right distance apart again.

It was easy after I had all of my words–the hardest part was actually getting the words from the songs. I also figured out that it is easier to move the tracks if when you are on the arrow tool you click in the middle of a track rather than on the edge of it. They move nicely that way. So maybe my issues with track moving are over! (Hopefully).

I am now going to submit this assignment so others can enjoy the agony of it as well! I hope you enjoy!

Here is the link to my assignment!

A Story of Lyrics

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Submitted by: Brittany Scites

First, choose what you want to replicate using song lyrics. It can be a Wire epigraph, a nursery rhyme, a speech, a poem, anything really. Then find songs that have the words that you need in them. Put those songs into Audacity and take out the words that you need from those songs. Order the words, make them the same volume, and space them out/slow them down so you can understand what is being said. And there you have it, an epigraph, nursery rhyme, speech, or poem out of song lyrics!