Investigate

5-6 : The student explains the problem, discussing its relevance. The student critically investigates the problem, evaluating information from a broad range of appropriate, acknowledged sources. The student describes detailed methods for appropriate testing to evaluate the product/solution against the design specification.

The 'problem' is to create a piece of house music from 15 to 30 minutes long. 

20th April 2012 : Today Mr. Chettri came to talk to us about music. He did a presentation on rythm, pitch, chourus, verse, bridge etc 

25th April 2012: BIBLIOGRAPHY EXEMPLAR + ACTUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY -

Bibliography: 

- Presentation by mr. Chettri (Stonehill music teacher)

- Video on house music: Chemical Brothers, Propeller Heads, Greenday, DJ Tiesto, Daft Punk, Saint Sense  (shown by Mr.Holmes)

- My Playlist: I looked through music in my Itunes, and I found some music I think would be appropriate for this project. The songs I was interested in using were: Strobe by Deadmau5e, Born to Die by Lana Del Rey, Faux Berlin by Deadmau5e, 42 by Coldplay, Every Teardrop is a Waterfall by Coldplay, Babylonia by Born Again, Greyhound by Swedish House Mafia, etc. 

- Soundcloud- I went to Soundcloud to look at what other people came up with, and perhaps get some inspiration. (http://soundcloud.com/) 

- Youtube- Youtube can't really be used as a 'source' because it is too vague, but I basically searched possible music I could use on there and then downloaded it. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxRrrfpMON8&feature=related - the only song I downloaded from youtube) 

- Youtube-mp3: I used this website to download music from youtube (http://www.youtube-mp3.org/) 

Music I used: Classical music- Indulge (MGB), Pop- Born to die (Itunes library), House- Every teardrop is a waterfall (Coldplay), World Music/ House- Babylonia (Itunes library).

Reflection:The 'problem' is to create a piece of house music from 15 to 30 minutes long. Firstly I had to have a clear idea of what I wanted to do. I wanted to put together a track which would involve different varieties of music. I think I used a good variety of sources to retrieve my actual music from. It would have been a good idea to have more primary sources such as people to talk to me about music. I wanted to create a 'hook' at the beginning of the track, but I didn't want anything more 'powerful' than the rest of the music, so I used classical music fading into pop, and then it built up from there. The presentation done by Mr. Chettri was extremely helpful, he gave me some really good information especially when he talked about the instruments that work well together.