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The Producer's Job

Lesson 86 · Unit 4 · Week 22

The Producer's Job

Tuesday, February 2

As you walk inAl entrar

  1. Take your recorder from the bin.Toma tu flauta del cubo.
  2. No Chromebooks today.Hoy no hay Chromebooks.
  3. Sixteen bars. Count the sections.Dieciséis compases. Cuenta las secciones.
New unit. Somebody decided every moment of every track you have ever heard.
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Do Now
How Many Sections?
¿Cuántas secciones?

Sixteen bars. The tune never changes anywhere in it. Count the SECTIONS, not the bars: the places where what is playing changes.Dieciséis compases. La tonada no cambia en ningún momento. Cuenta las SECCIONES, no los compases: los puntos donde cambia lo que suena.

I count ______ sections. The first change is at bar ______.Cuento ______ secciones. El primer cambio está en el compás ______.
Sixteen bars, twiceDieciséis compases, dos veces
Made for this class, out of the two lines you wrote in December.

Every single thing that happens in this track is a decision somebody made about what plays and when.

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Today
I Can
Yo puedo

I canYo puedo

I can map the arrangement of a track by drawing its sections on a timeline and naming five decisions the producer made.Puedo mapear el arreglo de una pista dibujando sus secciones en una línea de tiempo y nombrando cinco decisiones de quien la produjo.

I know I have got it whenSé que lo logré cuando

  • I found all five sections and said where each one starts.Encontré las cinco secciones y dije dónde empieza cada una.
  • I drew them on a timeline with their bar numbers.Las dibujé en una línea de tiempo con sus compases.
  • I named five decisions the producer made, and an alternative to one of them.Nombré cinco decisiones y una alternativa a una de ellas.
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Warm-Up
The Two Things It Is Made Of
Las dos cosas que la forman
  1. Breathe in for 4, out for 8.Inhala en 4, exhala en 8.
  2. The row with the recording, up and down.La fila con la grabación, subiendo y bajando.
  3. Everybody: the tune.Todos: la tonada.
  4. Everybody: the low part.Todos: la voz grave.
  5. Half and half. That is the whole track.Mitad y mitad. Esa es toda la pista.
The row, up and down, 76 BPMLa fila, subiendo y bajando, 76
Made for this class.

Sixteen bars out of two lines. Nothing was added to that track. Things were arranged.

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I Do
What a Producer Decides
Qué decide quien produce

Three things, and the notes are not one of themTres cosas, y las notas no son una

  • WHAT plays.QUÉ suena.
  • WHEN it plays.CUÁNDO suena.
  • HOW LONG it goes on.CUÁNTO dura.
The two lines. Everything in that track is one of these, or both, or neither.

That track is two lines you wrote in December. Everything else about it is arrangement, and arrangement is a job people are paid for.

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We Do
Map It Together
Mapéala en grupo
  1. First boundary: which bar?Primer cambio: ¿qué compás?
  2. Second? Third? Keep going.¿Segundo? ¿Tercero? Sigan.
  3. Now go back and write what plays in each block.Ahora vuelvan y escriban qué suena en cada bloque.
  4. Bar numbers on every block.Números de compás en cada bloque.
  5. Then we play it again and check the map.Luego la tocamos otra vez y revisamos el mapa.

Bar numbers, or it is not a mapSin compases no es un mapa

Same rule as last week. A drawing shows the shape; a map tells you where.La misma regla de la semana pasada. Un dibujo muestra la forma; un mapa dice dónde.

The intro gets found first and the outro last. Play the final four bars on their own and the room hears it.

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You Do
Five Decisions
Cinco decisiones
  1. One decision for each section.Una decisión por sección.
  2. Say what the producer chose.Di qué eligió quien produjo.
  3. Then say what they could have chosen instead.Luego di qué podría haber elegido.
  4. Then say what that would have cost.Luego di qué habría costado eso.
  5. Argue at least one of them properly.Defiende al menos una en serio.

Decision one, worked throughDecisión uno, como ejemplo

They started with the low part alone. They could have started with the tune. That would have cost you the waiting.Empezaron con la voz grave sola. Podrían haber empezado con la tonada. Eso te habría quitado la espera.

They chose ______. They could have ______. That would have ______.Eligieron ______. Podrían haber ______. Eso habría ______.
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Exit Ticket
Show Me
Muéstrame
  1. 1
    Nobody wrote a new note. So who decided what that track sounds like, and how? 1 ptNadie escribió una nota nueva. ¿Entonces quién decidió cómo suena esa pista, y cómo?
  2. 2
    Which one of the five decisions would you change, and what would you do instead? 2 pts¿Cuál de las cinco decisiones cambiarías, y qué harías en su lugar?

Pack upA guardar

  1. Producer's Map to the front.El mapa al frente.
  2. Wipe the mouthpiece.Limpia la boquilla.
  3. Recorder in its bag, bag in the bin.La flauta en su bolsa, la bolsa al cubo.
  4. Slip to me at the door.Entrégame la hoja en la puerta.
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Tomorrow
Next: The DAW Interface
Mañana: el programa

Tomorrow the Chromebooks come out and you open the software this job is done in.Mañana salen los Chromebooks y abres el programa donde se hace este trabajo.

The first thing you will look for on that screen is the timeline you drew today. It is the same map.Lo primero que buscarás en esa pantalla es la línea de tiempo que dibujaste hoy. Es el mismo mapa.

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