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Final Project
For my final project in Music Tech, I did an arrangement of “Precious Lord Take My Hand.” I used a recording of Traveling choir singing this song as my recorded audio. I cut it down to the three verses leaving the ending at the end of the third verse. After the first verse of the recording, I put a four-part verse with instruments. This was difficult to do because the song is in 9/8 time. I could not play it in, so I had to plug in the notes individually. I picked the instruments I did because I wanted to put two instruments from each family in the verse. The instruments of my verse are violin on soprano with flute on soprano an octave higher, French horn on alto, clarinet on tenor, and tuba on bass with the double bass an octave lower. To bridge the gap between the recorded audio and the instrument verse, I put two measures of the piano accompaniment to play so the gap sounds more natural. I then had verse two of the recording go after this. At the end of verse two, I again made a piano track to bridge the gap to my next verse. On this verse I have a clean electric guitar playing the soprano line with the cello playing the soprano line an octave lower. I also have drums playing along with a high hat hitting on each beat and a bass drum/snare hitting on every third beat (two bass drum hits, then one snare drum hit). I tried playing the guitar tabs I found online with this, but it sounded horrible. I made up my own part, where when there was a sustained note, I played that note’s chord. I ended up putting in a D, D7, and G chord on guitar. After this verse, I had the third verse of the recording. When I got to the ending of the song, I had a four-part brass part play along with the singing. I got the rhythm in by ear and then added the four parts with trumpet on soprano, French horn on alto, trombone on tenor, and tuba on bass. I am pretty happy with the ending product that I made, especially considering all the time I put into it.
Article posted January 8, 2009 at 11:13 AM •
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