Welcome. This video will give you ideas for how to create your chart for your composition, for composition 2. Put your name there, the date of the course and the chart here. Let’s get started.

This first thing that I am going to do in Microsoft Excel is to make this first column a little larger. That will allow me to put my instrument names in there. Let’s start by putting in measure 1. And then we have the beats. Beat 1, 2, 3, 4. I will put in measure 2. And then again my beats 1 through 4. I have to correct this. Put this over here. OK, so I have that set up. This is…first I will be doing my percussion part.

Let’s see here. Let me copy this. Since I am going to be doing four measures, I am going to go ahead and lay this out. We have measures 1 through 4. I just copied those beats. OK, I am sliding back here.

I am going to use a bass drum of some sort. You can pick any two percussion instruments. Then I think I am going to pick, well I am not quite sure yet. I will have to make that decision later, but some higher percussion instrument. I will fill that in. I put in a beat here. I will use a high hat or maybe I will use a cymbal or something. OK.

I will put the bass drum starting on the beat in the first measure here. Because we are doing two measures worth, I am going to add a change there. There is going to be a downbeat here. First beat here and then here like that. Remember that your percussion instruments are going to cycle through eight beats. So these eight beats have to be the same in both parts. So I have beat, rest, rest, rest, beat, rest, rest, beat and then it repeats. Then I have one beat in 3 the corresponds to measure 1. And then those two beats, I put in 1 and 4, in measure 4. Now for the high hat I think I will just do off beats. Do this on beats 2 and 4. I am going to do that through the whole thing here. OK so we are set, with want I wanted to map out in my percussion part.

Now I want to put down my higher pitched instrument and my lower pitched instrument. I think I will put down bass guitar. Some sort of bass instrument. For my high one why don’t I put down flute? Now these instruments are going to cycle over 16 (beats) this whole group. We have four measures (four bars) that means it is sixteen beats. I am going to want to do some things that are a little different throughout it.  Although I may want to repeat one of them.

Let me do the bass. Now my assignment is different than yours. I have to go back and forth between F3 and G3, and then get down to C3 at the end. So I am going to do an F3 for the four beats. I will hold that out. I will do a G3 and hold that out for four beats. Then I will do something different in measures 3 and 4. I will do an F3 for a couple of beats, then a G3. Then I am going to end on a C3. I will do that in the last measure here. OK. That is what I had in mind for that bass part here.

Now for my flute part I had a different assignment. Again this is different than your assignment. I had to do a C6, an Ab5, and a G5. So My C6 I am going to vary a bit. I am going to hold it for three beats, I will do my Ab5 and hold it for two beats. Then I am going to do my G5 two beats. Then I will add another G5. That will be held for that beat. I decided that I am going to keep that for the full two measures. So I am going to copy and paste. If I select this cell and then shift select. I have everything there and I can copy it. You can also go up to home…I don’t know where you do copy here! Well I usually do control C (copy) and then click in the cell I want it to go to and then I do control V (paste). So somewhere in here is a way to copy and I forget how to do that.

OK, so this is it for me.  I have just completed my chart. It will obviously take you a little bit longer. Now I need to save it. I will save as. You need to put down your last name, comp2, and I am going to save it as an Excel file. And I am done.