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1. I had to work with what he gave me. There seemed to be a lot of different sounds that didn’t all fit together in my mind. The hardest to fit in was a pre-recorded track that already had voices, percussion, and everything else in it.

2. If you aren’t savvy with a keyboard, yo

One of the toughest things about working with another student's compositional choices would have to be not being able to add sounds or loops that could enhance the track even more. Working with only what was given was difficult if the themes didn't fit well together or tempos were clashing with one another.
One thing that was difficult to do in GarageBand was accuracy. Since grooves were pretty much predetermined and could only be adjusted

1. I didn't find many constraints while working with another student's sound block. It was really interesting to hear what another person composed on garage band, since there's so many different sound/music clips. I didn't want to change their garage band composition too much because it sounded great. I made some volume changes, but not too much otherwise.

2. Since I've already worked with garage band before (in midi basics class), I didn't have many technological difficulties with it.

1. What were the musical constraints of working with another student's sound block?

Working with another student's sound block was difficult because I had to work with sounds that were not the ones I had put together. Each student chose very different blocks to put together. Michelle's tune consisted of organ, southern rock, and a couple different guitar riffs and drum beats. I had to listen a couple of times to get an id

1. Some of the musical constraints that I ran into were not being able to put in my own loops. I had to be able to work with all the ones that my partner chose to put in there. I did like how we could delete some of the loops that we did not like or did not fit with our piece.

1. The only thing about doing the aural sculpture was that you didn't really get to pick the sounds. Since we switched and carved from someone else's ideas there really wasn't as much freedom in the whole style and feel of the piece.

2. I didn't really have any problems dealing with GarageBand technologically. I think it might be a little harder for middle schoolers to figure out how to use the software, but since we are all familiar with the software, I don't think it was that difficu

1. What were the musical constraints of working with another student's sound block?
I had to whittle down and find the loops that fit together to make something logical. It actually was not that hard because he used a lot of similar sounds, such as orchestral strings.I personally didn't mind using what another student put together.
2. What were the technological constraints of composing in GarageBand?
I am not that savvy with the keyboard, so if I wanted to record so