AS Level Portfolio - Task 1c

AS Level Portfolio - Task 1c

You are required to create an original arrangement between 2 and 3 minutes in length
based on one of the following stimuli and in one of the following styles:
Stimuli

• I Want It That Way (The Backstreet Boys)
• Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes)

These tracks are in the playlist below:

A lead sheet for each stimulus has been included to assist you. Some recordings may differ from the lead sheet.



Style -

• Reggae (suggested listening: Bob Marley and the Wailers, Toots and the Maytals, Burning Spear)
• House (suggested listening: MARRS, David Guetta, Duke Dumont)

This task must be sequenced.

You are reminded that if you use any pre-recorded loops and samples they must be manipulated/shaped/edited/processed in order to gain credit. All samples and loops must be royalty free and not taken from any commercial recordings. Any samples or loops must not exceed two bars in length. Live performances recorded as continuous audio tracks or edited to form continuous audio tracks are not permitted in this task.
You should submit your completed arrangement as track 3 on your Music Technology Portfolio 1 CD.

(Total for Task 1C = 40 marks)

Some examples of previous work are in the playlist below: