I chose to create a cover arrangement of "Marvin Gaye" by Charlie Puth and featuring Meghan Trainor because I was really fascinated by the different tone colours that Meghan Trainor's voice could take and I already knew and liked the song very much. I chose to feature my arrangement around the concepts structure and tone colour because I felt that the piece could use an instrumental, bass boosted version. I also tried to explore pitch as I raised to octave for the melody so it would be easier for the flute to play. 

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The main changes in my arrangement included a change in instrumentation and structure, and both of these helped make the arrangement shorter and have a different tone colour to the original piece. The original version has 2 vocalist (male and female) and a piano accompaniment. In my arrangement, I used the flute to replace the two vocalists, a piano synth and a bass guitar. As a result, this changed the tone colour significantly, 

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My performance was recorded in GarageBand and I inputed the synth keyboard manually after notating the score on NoteFlight. Then I multi-tracked each individual layer directly into GarageBand. 

I used an amp for the bass guitar, using and iPhone to record for both the bass and the flute. I messed around with the settings on GarageBand to try get a nicer, rounder sound for my flute, adding some reverb, and I did that for the bass as well to make it slightly louder. Then I adjusted the track volumes so nothing was drowned out.