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For this project, I created a parody song using Adobe Audition. I chose the song “Soul meets Body” by Death Cab for Cutie and wrote my lyrics on the daily struggle of trying not to miss the Freestyle shuttle at lunch. I started by writing out the lyrics, then recording them and putting them with the instrumental track for the song I chose. To finish the song, I added effects such as reverb and pitch shift to make it blend in with the instrumentals better, sound more like the original song, and to make it more interesting to listen to.
When coming up with ideas for my parody song, I tried to think of things I encounter every day, or very often. I ended up choosing to write about the shuttle to Freestyle Academy that I take every day. Specifically, I was inspired by an experience I had during the first week of school where I forgot that I needed to take the shuttle and just barely made it. The shuttle leaves around 20 minutes into lunch and I sit at the very far back of the school which gives me only around 10 minutes to eat and talk to my friends. This can get quite stressful, especially if my teachers finish class late or don’t let us pack up before the bell.
When it came to creating the song, everything was very new since it was my first time using Adobe Audition. I had to spend a lot of time messing around with different effects to figure out how they work and how to get the sound I wanted. My main struggle was trying to figure out how to fine-tune the reverb parameters to get the right volume, delay, and number of echoes. By the end of the process, I had pretty much figured out which presets to use and which parameters to change for the effect to sound right. I also learned how to use a few other effects, such as chorus and pitch shift. If I could go back and change one thing, I would probably do even more recording takes so that the timing of my lyrics would match up exactly with the original timings. overall, doing this project gave me a really good foundation on how to use Adobe Audition and also how to record good quality audio. I think I’m most proud of my use of effects, since I was able to put my own spin on the original song in a lot of places. I’m also very proud of the lyrics I wrote. Originally I was super worried about what to write about, but in the end I was super inspired and was able to write all of my lyrics really easily.