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Download Wave Editing Software (if you don't already have some)

The producers of the Channel Ten show The Secret Life of Us need a new version of the theme song Death Defy by the Australian band Motor Ace.

Your task is to edit the song from 4:17 mins to 1:30 mins for the opening credits of the show.

Make sure that it is impossible to tell where you have made any cuts. The opening and ending chords must be left untouched.

Good Luck!

The band 5ive have massively sampled the famous theme from the movie Grease to create the song Rock The Party!.

Your task in this activity is to recreate Rock the Party from the original Grease theme in the same way that 5ive did. What to do:-

Listen to Rock The Party! and the theme from Grease
Work out what parts of the Grease song have been sampled
Using a Wave Editing program, select and cut sections from the grease file to create each sample used in Rock the Party
Save each sample as a separate wave file
Once you have found and saved each sample, assemble the song in the correct order using Acid software until you have a replica of the 5ive song

Create a song using Acid that uses samples that you have chosen and prepared by yourself from your own CD library.

To prepare loop files from your CD's you need to:-

Find your favourite sections from your own CD's
Record small sections using Sound Recorder or another wave recording application
Edit your samples / loops so that they begin and end EXACTLY in time. This might be tricky but needs to be precise
Save all of your loops in one folder on the "C:" drive on the computer
Arrange your song in Acid using these loops.
(HINT: Read through and complete steps in the article DIY Rare Grooves from the Intermusic.com website in order to achieve this task)

You also need to provide the following pieces of information for EACH song you have sampled:-