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Prof. Chris Piorkowski
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Prof. Chris Piorkowski

Professor Chris Piorkowski is an award-winning composer, with a Masters in Music Technology from the University of Newcastle in Australia, an MFA majoring in Music Composition for Film, TV and Multimedia from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a Diploma in Media Composition from Music for The Media in London, and another Diploma in Sound Engineering from the Audio Institute of America in San Francisco. He has also studied Film Scoring and Orchestration at Berklee College of Music in Boston as well as Film Music Orchestration Steven Scott Smalley and Jazz Piano with Walter Norris. In his professional life, he has worked on countless projects at the legendary Sound City Studios in Los Angeles scoring over 50 projects for TBN, ShowTime, PBS, and Gene Roddenberry (the creator of Star Trek).
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Creating a Tap Tempo using an instrument track

In this section, we will watch the movie and tap a MIDI keyboard, with a loaded percussion sound emulating a metronome.

Open the Mercedes-Benz Cabrio C 300_BITC.mov movie file that was saved in Chapter 7, with the SMPTE-locked scene markers. Make sure that the movie and Logic Pro are in sync, and then name and save the project (for example, I will choose Beat mapping_01).

In general, you can use a piano, a percussion instrument, or even a plain external MIDI track that has no instrument loaded at all. In this example, we will use a percussion instrument and tap it to create a rhythmic Tap Tempo.

To create an instrument in Logic Pro, use the Option + CMD + N shortcut. From the dialog box, click on the Software Instrument tab. Then, click on the Details downward arrow to display the Instrument and Audio Output options, if they are not already displayed.

Figure 8.1: Logic Pro dialog box

Figure 8.1: Logic Pro dialog box

In the Instrument...

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Prof. Chris Piorkowski

Professor Chris Piorkowski is an award-winning composer, with a Masters in Music Technology from the University of Newcastle in Australia, an MFA majoring in Music Composition for Film, TV and Multimedia from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a Diploma in Media Composition from Music for The Media in London, and another Diploma in Sound Engineering from the Audio Institute of America in San Francisco. He has also studied Film Scoring and Orchestration at Berklee College of Music in Boston as well as Film Music Orchestration Steven Scott Smalley and Jazz Piano with Walter Norris. In his professional life, he has worked on countless projects at the legendary Sound City Studios in Los Angeles scoring over 50 projects for TBN, ShowTime, PBS, and Gene Roddenberry (the creator of Star Trek).
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