Apple Loops
These are sounds built into Garageband that are designed to sound good together.
What are apple loops?
These tracks typically imitate the sound of a drum set.
What are percussion tracks?
This feature automatically corrects the pitch of a recorded sound.
What is autotuning or pitch correction?
This is typically the first section of a song in standard song form.
What is Verse 1?
This is an element of sound design that encompasses characters' spoken text.
What is Dialogue?
This process involves making a sound repeat continuously.
What is looping?
This track is the main musical idea of a song.
What is melody?
In the group project of the live recordings unit, each person was responsible for recording one of these types of sounds.
What are percussion tracks?
This section of a song typically appears 3 times in a song and contains the most important ideas, messages, or themes of the song.
What is the Chorus?
This is what we call the music underneath a scene in a film.
What is the score or underscoring?
This feature allows you to change how loud an entire track is.
What is the volume slider?
This process automatically corrects the rhythm of sounds typed into Garageband to line them up with the beat.
What is quantizing?
You add these to make a live recording sound different than the original sounds.
What are effects?
What is the Bridge?
This type of tonality is typically associated with happy or pleasant emotions.
What is Major tonality?
You type this key to access the volume automation feature.
What is the "A" key?
This track imitates the sound of a low-pitched type of string instrument.
What is a melodic bass line?
You use this feature to decrease the volume of sound that is captured in a live recording.
What is the record level or microphone volume?
We listened to this song from 1992 as an example of song form.
What is Creep by Radiohead?
This is the name for 3 or more notes played together at the same time, which often demonstrates a specific type of tonality.
What is a chord?
This is the name of the moving veritical line tool that shows what part of the song is playing.
What is the playhead?
This is the name for when you make up music without planning it out ahead of time.
What is improvising?
This is the name of the theatre production we watched a clip of to understand the use of non-musical sounds to create music.
What is Stomp?
This phrase describes how the words at the end of each line of a song or poem sound.
What is rhyme scheme?
This word describes the process of creating separate sound effects after a scene has been recorded.
What is Foley?