Thursday, May 8, 2008

Making a Stronger Melody and a Drum Beat

Today, you will be asked to create a melody using notes from the C minor scale that goes along with a drum beat.

  1. Open Reason
  2. Make sure you have a Mixer 14:2
  3. Set Tempo between 70-110 bpm
  4. Create a Redrum and make a 32 step drum pattern using a Clap or Snap, Bass Drum, Hi Hat, and Percussion. Make sure you put the sounds on appropriate boxes!
  5. On the Redrum, Copy Pattern To Track.
  6. Create a Dr. Rex and get the sample from me.
  7. Do a remix of the sample and record it.
  8. Now Create Subtractor: choose any instrument in the Subtractor/Monosynths Folder
  9. Create a melody using notes from the C minor scale. Use between 3 and 5 different notes.
  10. When you have finished making your melody, quantize it.
  11. Create a Dr. Rex. Load a Percussion Loop and put it "To Track."
  12. Try adding some more parts using other Soft Synths (Subtractor, Malstrom, NN19, NNXT)
  13. Let me hear what you got.

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