As you work on your first hymn (Glory Be to Jesus), you will be learning about three different instrument families: woodwinds, strings, and brass (Garageband calls them horns).  We will be changing instrumentation on each verse of the hymn so our recordings don't sound boring when the same instrumention is played for multiple verses.  The instrument familiy descriptions are taken from Wikipedia:

A woodwind instrument is a musical instrument which produces sound when the player blows air against an edge of, or opening in, the instrument, causing the air to vibrate within a resonator. Most commonly, the player blows against a thin piece of wood called a reed. Most of these instruments were originally made of wood, but some, such as the saxophone and some flutes, are now commonly made of other materials such as metals or plastics.  List of woodwind instruments

A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones. The most common string instruments in the string family are violin, cello, viola, double bass, guitar, and harp. For a full list, see List of string instruments.

A brass instrument is a musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a tubular resonator. They are also called labrosones, literally meaning "lip-vibrated instruments" (Baines, 1993).

There are two factors in changing the pitch on a valved brass instrument: pressing the valves to change the length of the tubing, and changing the player's lip aperture or "embouchure", which determines the frequency of the vibration into the instrument.

The view of most scholars (see organology) is that the term "brass instrument" should be defined by the way the sound is made, as above, and not by whether the instrument is actually made of brass. Thus, as exceptional cases one finds brass instruments made of wood like the alphorn, the cornett, and the serpent, while some woodwind instruments are made of brass, like the saxophone.

Have you ever been to a concert?  From where you were in the audience, where was the drummer?  The lead singer?  Which side of the stage was the bass player on?  Where was the lead guitar?  On which side of the stage was the rhythm guitar?  Were there backup singers?  Where they on the right or the left?  How 'bout a horn or string section?  Maybe a keyboardist?

If you can picture where all these instrumentalists played on stage at a concert you attended or saw on TV, you can understand part of the use of panning.  Think of panning as placing the instruments around the stage.

Make sure you've completed the following things in Glory Be to Jesus:

• Six verses total
• In the first three verses one is all woodwinds (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone), one is all strings (violin, viola, cello, double bass) and one is all brass (trumpet, french horn, trombone, tuba)
• The last three verses can be any combination of instruments
• All notes aligned to quarter notes
• All instrument families panned across the stereo field verse-by-verse
• Write a blog entry describing what you did in your hymn: (a) what instruments you used on which verses, (b) why you chose those instruments, (c) other creative things that you did that you want your listener to make sure they hear
• Share your hymn to iTunes, create an MP3 version of it, rename it "Glory Be to Jesus (My Name), and drop it in my drop box

Your completed Garageband project might look something like this:

In music tech class, we used the midi (

) keyboard to plunk in notes (SATB) of Glory Be To Jesus into Garageband. After we 'plunked' in the parts we attached different instruments to each. We did 3 verses. Each verse was a different instrument group: 1-woodwinds 2-Strings 3-Brass. I havnt gotten to the third verse but I will finish that on thursday!

Hehe. My hymn was a little techno-like. It was hymn 94 brightest and best. I used alot of drumset-like things in each verse. There was supposed to be 5 verses but Mr. Kerr decided to only do 3. It worked out just fabulously! So it's all good. :P

ok well sooo far the guitar lesson has been amazing, were learning how to play the diffrent types of chords it was hard to get the hang of it at first now i can play all the chords but im still having trouble switching from chord to chord it takes a while for me to do.... well ill keep you posted on whats to come

ok first of all i made hymn 183 Holy Spirit, Light Divine i accually had it done about 3 weeks ago but had to hurry up yesterday to fix it all up but i made one line of all guitars but i added a grand piano so it didnt sound so incredibally bad. but the other two verses were woodwinds and brass... i thought it sounded pretty good but after it was played in the chapel i realized the tempo was set a little too fast. Hope you liked it...

For my final project i would like to take some pieces of music and put them together to make like a remix type thing. I think this would be a good idea because we already know how to do this but the challenging part wiuld be to make it sound like it was suppose to be like that in the first place...? 

For my final project in Music Technology I decided to use 3 songs from my favorite band of all time Hawthorne Heights.  I  would of liked to use Angels and Airwaves also but i decided i already used them for a project and the tempo of their music wouldn't fit in with what i was thinking. It was really hard to decide what hymns to use but I ended up chooseing to use there of their songs Breathing in Sequence, We are so Last Year, and Light Sleeper. I choose these song cause they were the only ones from the album which really kept the same beat going throughout the song. I decided to start with the song Breathing in Sequence because it was the only song which statred out the mood for the piece how i wanted it to, I than took a drumb solo and a guitar solo and put it between 2 different verses to make them run together a little more smoothly. I than ended again with Breathing in Sequence cause it left a good mood for the ending of the song and than i once again ended with a (buda Bunch a) a drumb solo. I've been working on the song for 2 class periods and than final calas exam day so Hope you like!

My hymn for Chapel is Hymn 9 "Jesus, Your Church with Longing Eyes."  In this hymn, I have an introduction and three verses.  The Introduction is the second half of the hymn played by an organ.  I doubled the soprano and bass lines an octave higher and lower, respectively.  The first verse uses the woodwind family with a flute and piccolo playing the soprano an octave higher, oboe on alto, clarinet on tenor and bass, and bassoon on bass an octave lower.  The second verse is played by the brass family with a trumpet on soprano, French horn on alto, trombone on tenor, and tuba on bass which is doubled an octave lower.  In this verse, soprano starts by itself, alto comes in on the second line, tenor on the third line, and bass on the last line.  The last verse has strings, with woodwind and brass to help accent it.  The soprano is played by violin, which is doubled, and trumpet, alto by viola and oboe, tenor by viola and clarinet, and bass by cello and double bass and tuba an octave lower.  The hymn worked well in chapel.  The only things I didn't like about it was it was a tad fast, the soprano could have been brought out a little more, and the start of verse 2 should have come out a bit stronger.

for the past few days weve been working on the piano to make the song glory be to jesus.then when we have all the line of soprano,alto,tenor,bass and then we can assign diferent instruments to them such as strings,brass and horns to make its sound just like and orchestrsa =)

my glory be to jesus hymn project as going along alright...despite me being behind one day. im getting ready to be finised,i just added some instruments for the first time and am experimenting with how different instruments sound but when it comes down to it,its sort of difficult becuase when i finally listen to it and i think ive got it,it still sounds like garbage. maybe it just takes some practice....

Ok so we had to put a hymn for music tech into garageband and then we had to have it be played in chapel.  I picked to play for Mr.Strusz.  He picked Precious Lord,  Take my Hand.  I was excited cause i love that hymn.  So I had to make it pretty fast and it was going great.  I used a plain piccillo in the beginnging and then i added the other woodwind instruments for a little bit of the intro and then cut them out.  The piccillo played in all 3 verses of the hymn.  But right after the intro there was a space for where i cut something out but then i fixed it but then it didn't save! so everyone lughed at me and it realy sucked.  But the first verse was the piccillo and flute on soprano.   The oboe on alto.  The clarinet on tenor and the basson on bass.  It sounded very nice.  Then for the second verses I used 4 part guitar.  I have no clue how it worked it just did.  Then for the 3rd verse I used the woodwinds from the first verse and then i added strings.  It was a very nice tone and a very professional way to end the hymn.  But Mr.Strusz didn't day that i made it so it was not that embarassing!