Acid Day 5

Fifth session of Sony Acid and the day starts off right on time with everyone in attendance! Today was mostly a work day, with a quick review in the beginning and a Permit Test in the end.

The day began with Chris making the announcement that today's lab would be ending about 45 minutes early because there a performance planned that would require more time then usually allowed during community hour. Oh yeah, and that performance/poetry/workshop was great!

So after the quick announcement, Chris continued with the lesson and moved right on to a quick review of the Sony Acid interface and and tools. This review was well needed, as it covered the functions of the main tools, the difference between Draw tool and the Paint tool, and some very helpful vocab that Acid uses quite frequently such as "event clips" and "snapping."

Directly following the review, the students were given their time to finish up the beats they've been working on from last session for their mini BTW project. Some of them were very far with their 24-measure beat, while others were still in the beginning phase of the process and still trying to find the right sounds. For the next 45 minutes or so the students spent working on their mini BTW's and Chris and Tony where constantly moving from student to student helping them along with their beats, answering questions, and troubleshooting any problems they may have been experiencing; everyone was quite busy, which is always a good sign! (unless of course everyone is all tired and stuff :]).

By the time their work time was just about up, a lot of the students had made outstanding progress with their mini BTW's and many were already finished! Following their work time the students were allowed a quick break and then upon their return they began their final portion of lab: their first attempt at the Sony Acid Permit Test--and I've got a feeling that they all did quite well on it.