So for this assignment, I had to mashup 3 different songs to create a story.  It was only worth 2 stars and I really think it should have been worth more because it was tough.  Here’s what I did.

http://soundcloud.com/cwyrough/mashup-story

I had all the songs off my iTunes and loaded them into audacity.  I used Coalminer by O.A.R, Good Life by One Republic ft. B.O.B, So Good by B.O.B, I Need Your Love by Calvin Harris ft. Ellie Goulding, and American Baby by Dave Matthews Band.

To create the story I just flipped through iTunes randomly honestly.  Didn’t put much thought into it but I tried to get random types of music into it.  The only one I really got any thought about was the transition from Ellie Goulding and Dave Matthews.  I knew I wanted to put a Dave Matthews song into it and I ended up flipping through ones that were about girls and stuff so it would go along with the “hold me in your arms again” from the Ellie song.  It just worked out that Dave had a song with similar lyrics.

As for actually constructing the song, I used audacity.  I either faded the song in or normalized the transition, overlapping all the stuff for the songs.  The only part that was not transitioned was between Good Life and So Good because the beat just worked out that way so it naturally jumped between the two.