“Just make music that you like, and think back to what you did.” Professor O’Malley opened up the class with this piece of advice, a guiding statement for us that are still nervous about this project. We then went over GarageBand once again, going through instructions that will help us use the program. The slides are a useful step-by-step instruction, so I tried to take pictures of every slide and pay attention to what Professor O’Malley was doing as he demonstrated certain steps so that they become clearer.

I appreciated that he clarified that the “Audio files are blue”, because I wanted to have a quick visual on what was what in his demonstrations. I also breathed a sigh in relief when he said that he would be placing this online so we can use it as an example. For all of his explanations and general advice, I’m still worried that I will do something wrong in this process, so I’m glad that some of this will be available for us to refer to during our work on this project.

Professor O’Malley reminded us that there is a “Promise of the internet”, in that there is a lot of information and sources that we can use for this project, compounded with the MIDI files that he uses as a demonstration, before going more in depth with the mixing that we can do with the files of music that we utilize in this project.

After his review, Professor O’Malley ended with one final piece of advice for us if we’re lost on how to start “Always start with the drums.” Maybe I’ll use that when I start working on this in detail, but regardless it seems that I will need to properly manage my time for all of my final assignments and exams within the next week. Better to start sooner rather than later.