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Sick beat

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Submitted by: Isaiah Brooks

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Make a sick beat, using whatever you can find on freesounds.org, and whatever you can record around you! I don't care how long it is, just get groovy dood.

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Submissions So Far

Sick Beat

This beat is sick as in it’s a little rough. I tried to incorporate a little 80’s jive to it. I used garage band and created my own melody and beat with the piano and drums and used an 80s sound of the internet. This turned out not as well …

Sick Beat, Dude!

I have never made a beat before and it is quite hard, not gonna lie. After watching a couple YouTube tutorials on GarageBand beat-making, I decided to give it a shot.

I played around with drums, trumpets, and some piano notes to create a pretty fun, upbeat instrumental. Here is …

Sick 80’s Beat

For my first Audio Bank assignment I completed an assignment called, Sick Beat. This assignment asks the creator to make a beat using sounds they found for free, public use online.

For this assignment I used freesound.org for all the sounds you hear, and used the Garage Band audio software …

Sick Beat

Just me and my groovy beat. I used Audacity to make this beat. Below is both what it ended up sounding like, and also what it looked like on Audacity.

the beat:

Sick Beats

This project was definitely fun, but not easy. I watched a tutorial from a past student which helped a lot. I searched for 80s hip hop sound effects, but it sort of ended being something else. Let me know what you think. I used the following clips from freesounds.org: –Hip …

SICK BEAT

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This assignment was really difficult to figure out at first but I used a website called mix.dj. It gives you a huge variety of songs to chose from and you determine the fades, …

Sick Beat

For this assignment we had to create an audio track using different sounds. I decided to use GarageBand because it is what I am most comfortable with. I also decided to use the beats that are already in GarageBand to make it. I decided to make the beat as 80s …

My first (and awful) attempt at creating music

Directions: “Make a sick beat, using whatever you can find on freesounds.org, and whatever you can record around you! I don’t care how long it is, just get groovy dood.”

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Check this beat out!

This is the original link to the assignment. I got these sounds and beats off of freesounds.org. I used three different beats. One was a counties beat and the other two are strokes with pauses. I think it turned out pretty sick. …

Sick Beat

Check out my sick beat project that I created with Garage Band for Mac on Soundcloud!…

Not the Sickest Beat in the World, Just a Tribute

For this fun little audio assignment, the task was to create a sick beats to end all sick beats. I spent a lot of time just trying to figure out where to even start. I’m not much of a musically minded person, so I felt like a log adrift until …

Sick beat!

I downloaded these sounds from free sounds.org. This is the link to the original assignment. This assignment is 3 stars. I used a house drum, rattle drum, and timpani drums to create my awesome beat in Audacity. Let me know what you think!…

Sick Beat -3 Stars

For this assignment we were to create a sound to have a sick beat!

Here is my creation below:

For this project, I used a pre existing beat from Freesound.org called Phaser Chords in Serum by staticpony 1.

After downloading the sound, I imported it into Audacity and stretched the …

Sick Beat

My Sick Beat

I used GarageBand to mix all of the sounds together to make a “Sick Beat.” Feel free to click on my tutorial video to see how I put this all together.

Sick Beat Tutorial…

Check out this sick beat

For this audio assignment I chose to make a sick beat. I am really into hip hop and always wanted to try this so I went to http://freesound.org to find sounds to enhance the beat. I only had to use three sounds which nice. Somehow the the sounds went on …

I made a sick beat

First off, I was inspired to make my sick beat by my classmate, Christina’s sick beat. I also used freesound.org to acquire all of the sounds I needed to make my beat, and I wanted to go for a much more techno-inspired beat for mine. I used 808s, distorted …

And the beat goes

Audio is a great way to tell a story. Just by hearing a series of sounds it allows the possibility for an individual to draw up an image in their head designed off of what they hear.

For my first audio assignment of the week I decided to participate in …

pop pop pop snap

i made a beat using a poping noise with my lips and a snapping noise with my fingers. my group, The Legends, will be doing a talk show for our radio show and i thought this would be an interesting and useful transition sound.

i was thinking in the realm …

A sick beat it IS!

LOL!  Wow, for some reason, this one was much much harder than I thought.  The assignment was to come up with a ‘sick beat’ of my own.  I used Audacity and literally made one noise with my mouth, tapped on my laptop and made another noise with my lips and …

A Sick Beat for Radio

For this assignment I was tasked with creating a “sick beat”.  For this I wanted to tie it to my radio program project so I created a intro type song for our upcoming radio show. I used audacity and freesound.org to create and mash together audio to produce this medieval …

“Sick Beat”

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This “sick beat” was created with me recording the storm last night, converting it to midi, and making a beat with with sticks from the limb that fell on my car! I thought that was funny enough to create this with. I audio to midi’d the beat I made …

Sick Beat lol

Dude/dudette,

I am straight up ready to headbutt a cactus. Like I’m not talking soft, place-your-head-on -the-cactus kinda headbutt. I’m talking like all out “this is war” kind of headbutt. Just dropped like 5 hours in this project so you better like it or I will -insert empty threat here-.…

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Sick Beat

Directions:

Make a sick beat, using whatever you can find on freesounds.org, and whatever you can record around you! I don’t care how long it is, just get groovy dood.

So I honestly thought I was going to be better at this… I dont know why. I have never in …

Sick Beat lol

Dude/dudette,

I am straight up ready to headbutt a cactus. Like I’m not talking soft, place-your-head-on -the-cactus kinda headbutt. I’m talking like all out “this is war” kind of headbutt. Just dropped like 5 hours in this project so you better like it or I will -insert empty threat here-.…