Years ago, a young boy was sitting on a couch with his grandparents watching a biography about a rather popular group. The boy sat through this approximately three hour long biographical film that talk about their lives and played just about each and every one of their greatest hits. For years to come, he continued to listen to these very songs everyday with his grandparents and when he was gifted his first MP3 player,  the first set of songs he added to it were from The Temptations.  You would think that he would get tired of these songs after a while, but he never did. You can now hear him humming the songs every now again as he heads to class or does anything productive. Who is this boy you ask? Well, you are reading a blog post from him right now!

This three star assignment required me to take some songs that I thought were the best of my favorite band or singer and create a mash up of those very songs. The mashup didn’t turn out that great, but I really enjoyed trying to making it sound okay. The songs that I used were, Get Ready, Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone, Ain’t Too Proud To Beg, (I Know) I’m Losing You, and Just My Imagination. My personal favorite of those five would have to be Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone because how the song tells a story for each of the vocalists and from their point of view.

To create this mashup, I used Audacity to edit the inserted songs. For a majority of it, I used the Time Shift tool to move around and reposition each song  to help them flow a bit better.

The final step before exporting the song,  I highlighted a section of a song and then went to the effect tab to make the end of the mashup fade out instead of abruptly ending.

That’s all the steps I made to create this project, so don’t let the three stars fool you. This assignment is easier than it looks, so hopefully you can follow my steps to create a mashup of your very own!