Making My Radio Jingle from the Start

I used a programme galled ‘Garage Band’. The decision for my choice of software was this because it is very easy to use and enables a more complex level of editing as well as its simplicity. This software is readily available on the Macs. So firstly I needed to open up a new project by clicking on the programme, this menu then popped up, you click the ‘Create New Music Project’ and then save the file as a suitable name in an easily accessible location.

After you have saved this file you may begin working on Garage Band. I chose to first put a base track which was a beat so that i could work around it an see what goes with it, as it is a freestyle the beat is one of the most important parts of my jingle and is also used as a bed track where silence would be taking place. The beat however did not sound like there was enought to it so i added another beat which had the same timing to give a fuller and much prefered sound. These two pictures show the beat timing and how they are both in sync.

The lines going vertically up and down on this picture show the time of the beat. These lines need to be similar to the other beat that I used, however they may be two beats of the other sound track to one beat of this one, as long as the the beats are not off time with each other the mixture of tracks should work which in my case they did.

After the base and beats are put in place i decided to experiment with an instrument which i was going to use in my jingle. I decided on a modern guitar, this was a very short clip just to draw the audience in and the sound produced was very aesthetically pleasing. Howecer I had hit my first obstacle whcih was that this opening part did not draw enough attention to the show, as a result I moved these parts forwards a few seconds by highlighting them all and dragging them, in the free gap I added some techno radio sounds which would definatly capure the audiences attenetion. These then fade out into the sound track with the guitar and beats, this is seen in the picture below.

As you can see in this image the volume track is shown to be decreasing as it moves towards the right hand side. This is also when the guitar track comes in. The blue ball on the middle left is the object used in which the volume of the track can be changed. This volume track becomes visible when the 'T' butten is pressed.