Personal Connection: Music Composition Analysis

Reflection/ Personal Connection: My musical composition portrays my emotion when I am running in a race. Before a race begins, my heart pounds and there is anticipation. Therefore, the beginning of the musical composition utilizes the Ghostly Sub Bass.1 and Shaker 01.1 to depict that anxious feeling I have. The Ghostly Sub Bass sounds like my heart thumping loudly, due to nervousness, and the Shaker resembles the adrenaline I have when the gunshots fire and I have to race out of the starting line. After these beats, the Shine Bright Piano.4 begins to play and this resembles my calmness as I get into a comfortable fast pace. The beats progressively pick up with the Brass Brigade Beat.1 and the Rev it Up Beat.7. This quick transition illustrates the pain and the quickness my feet as I have reached the half-way point of the race. The second section of the song, Section B, describes how quickly my feet pick up from the ground as I end the race with a big fight to the end. This quickness is represented by the Irreversible Beat.1, the Next Wave Bear 01.1, the Rattle Reverse Topper.1, and the Aggressive Stance Bass.1 beats because they
I felt like it was longer and dragged on to the point of anticipation on what would happen next. However, this could have been improved if I shorten Section A and made it the same length as Section B. Another weakness that my musical composition portrayed was that the instruments were not evenly spread out, and some instruments lasted a longer time than others. For example, the Shine Bright Piano took up the almost the entire first section of one minute and eight seconds, while the Shaker only took up three minutes. In the end, my musical composition ended up a lot better than I expected. This was the first time I have ever used GarageBand and I thought it was remarkable. I will continue to use this audio software and create more musical