How to Do a Music Tag Tutorial

So welcome to my tutorial for this amazing assignment on how I made my musical tag. Since the story of the project was really long I decided to break it up, so you can read the story part over here.

For starters the first thing you need to do is plan plan plan plan! Planning the whole process will really help you.

Here were some questions that I asked myself

  • Do I want to do a certain genre?
  • Do I want to do a certain artist?
  • What is the theme of my work?
  • What story do I want to tell?

I decided to do Sara Bareilles and tell a break up story. So the next step was to look up the lyrics to songs.  Try to do songs that you are familiar with, it will help you so much more.

I copied and pasted the lyrics that I wanted into Microsoft word, just so I could keep track of everything. When planning this, aware of the lengths of the clips that you are listening to. Make sure that you have at least a verse or a chorus or both when it comes to the project. It will help to tell your story a bit better.

I found the YouTube videos of the songs that I wanted and I tried to find them on the artist’s account (usually associated with Vev0). Listen to the song before you do anything else! You need to make sure that the quality of the audio is good, if it is a live recording or has a lot of background noise you do not want to select that. Once you select a video, use the Fastest YouTube Downloader to transfer the file into an mp3.

 

I created this final product in Audacity, which is a great tool to use one you get used to all of the different features of the program. Here are the steps I took:

  1. I imported the first song that I wanted to do into the program:

import audio2.  Find the part of the song that you want to start at.

  • If it is at the beginning, then move onto the next step.
  • If it is not at the beginning of the song, then pause where you want to start and use the select tool to select the portion you want to delete. Then hit the DEL key on your keyboard. If this does not work, hit the stop button then the DEL key again.

Selection

3. Go to the second part of the song and using the same technique, delete the part of the song that you don’t want to use. For a tip, really take your time to make sure that you are cutting out the right words. Use the zoom tool to get as close to the words as possible, which will make your transitions much easier.

zoom tools

4. Import your next song, just like you did in step 1. To prevent multiple songs playing at the same time, click the solo button so only that track will play, and cut it accordingly like in steps 2 and 3.

Solo Key

5. Once you are done cutting, use the Time Shift Tool in order to move your track, it will attach to the tracks near it, which is nice. Make sure you click the solo button again to allow all tracks to play again!

Time Shift Tool

6. Repeat this process until you have your final product.

finished product

7. Export the file to be a mp3 so that you can share, and upload onto SoundCloud!

Good luck!

Princess Karissa

Summary of My Tutorials

  1. Music Tag -You are going to need Audacity.

 

 

2. Music Video -You will need PWNYouTube bookmarklet and Audacity.

 

I used Screen-O-Matic to make both of these tutorials. The links will take you to my blog about the assignment and the assignments themselves.

My Assignment 1: Music Tag

Music Tag

One of my favorite type of assignments is audio!  Lyrics and songs are great ways to tell stories. Have you notice similar themes extend genres… lyrics overlapping. Your task is to create a story by using audio snippets from songs. The trick is you have to have the last word of your clip, be the same word that starts the next clip. Use at least 5 different songs, try to include different genres or decades.

  1. Find all the YouTube videos of your songs and position it to play a little before the part you want to capture.
  2. Use Audacity to record the clips
  3. Edit the Clips Together
  4. Export Your New Story

For my example I used:

Below is the lyrics of my music tag.. the word/pharses that are shared are bolded.

Why don’t you stay. I’m down on my knees. I’m so tired of being lonely. Don’t I give you what you need. When she calls you to go. There is one thing you should know. We don’t have to live this way Baby, why don’t you stay Just a  little bit longer .Please let me hear .You say that you will Say you will. Say you will. Together can never be close enough for me. To feel like I am close enough to youYou wear white and I’ll wear out the words I love you. And you’re beautiful. You’re beautiful, You’re beauitful its true. There must be an angel with the smile on her face, when she thought up that I should be with you need a man. I need a man. Who can keep me satisfied. I better shape up If I’m gonna prove. you better prove.That my faith is justified. Are you sure.Y es I’m sure down deep inside. You’re the one that I want. Oo-oo-oo, honey

I believe songs are the most unviersal way to tell stories. It, therefore, isn’t surprisng that songs tend to overlap. This assigment made me think of all the themes (not just genres) that I listen too! I, also, shows the connectivness of people acrosse time.

 

Wanna Know How To Do This:

You are going to need Audacity. In order to make the tutorial, I used Screen-O-Matic.  Both of these are free download and are very user friendly!

Music Tag

One of my favorite type of assignments is audio! Lyrics and songs are great ways to tell stories. Have you notice similar themes extend genres… lyrics overlapping. Your task is to create a story by using audio snippets from songs. The trick is you have to have the last word of your clip, be the same word that starts the next clip. Use at least 5 different songs, try to include different genres or decades.

Find all the YouTube videos of your songs and position it to play a little before the part you want to capture.
Use Audacity to record the clips
Edit the Clips Together
Export Your New Story