Exporting Your Songs From Reason

1. Open Reason

2. Go to FILE: OPEN

3. Open up your beat

4. Make sure your beat has the MClass Mastering Suite Combi ABOVE THE MIXER.

5. Make sure your beat has all of your parts. Set your "L" at the BEGINNING OF THE BEAT and "R" at the END OF THE BEAT.

6. Go to FILE: EXPORT LOOP AS AUDIO FILE.

7. Save your beats in your folder. Make sure your beats are WAVE files, click SAVE.

8. When you get to "Export Audio Settings", your "Sample Rate" should be 44100 and your "Bit Depth" should be 16.

9. Repeat these steps for all 4, 5, or 6 of your beats.
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1. When you are finished exporting all of your beats, open up iTunes.

2. Go to FILE, you should see something called "New Playlist", click it.

3. The playlist should be blank. You should be able to open your folder & drag each beat into iTunes.

4. When all of your beats are in iTunes, you'll be ready to burn a CD next week!

Now that you have made beats that will be made into full songs, today we will turn those beats into full songs. Lets review what song format is.:

INTRO L1-R9
CHORUS L9-R17
VERSE L17-R33
CHORUS L33-R41
VERSE L41-R57
CHORUS L57-R65
VERSE L65-R81
CHORUS L81-R89
OUTRO L89-R97

1. Open Reason.
2. Open your beat you made yesterday.
   
3. Make sure you have all your parts Copied To Track.
4. Highlight all your parts.
5. Go to the Edit Window, Select Copy.
6. Go to the Edit Window, Select Paste.
7. Move the Right Loop Point to 33.
8. Paste your parts until you get to the Right Loop Point.
9. Save your beat.
10. Now focus on the INTRO, 1-9. Your intro is the first impression people get when they hear your song. It's like when you meet someone for the very first time, you can't tell the person your life story in a sentence, but you can give them an idea about you and your personality in the way that you greet them.
    
    The best intros make the listener want to hear more, the worst make the listener skip to the next song. The intro usually drops one of the parts from the beat. If you drop the drums or the bass line, it can cause some tension, and bring the listener in.
11. Focus on the Intro from 1-9.
12. Delete a part such as the drums or bass line to "Introduce" your beat.
13. Save your beat.
14. Now we can work on the Verse.
15. Remember, from yesterday, the verse is the part of the song that tells the story and is different every time.
16. We want to create space for a vocalist in our verse.
17. From 17-33, delete the melody from your song.
18. Now, we have 3 sections. The Intro from 1-9, the Chorus from 9-17, and the Verse from 17-33.
19. Highlight all the parts between 9-33.
20. In the Edit window, select Copy.
21. In the Edit window, select Paste two times.
22. Now Highlight all the parts between 9-17.
23. In the Edit window, select Copy.
24. Move your cursor to 81.
25. In the Edit window, select Paste.
26. From 81-89 Create an Outro by deleting all the parts except for your melody.
27. Save your beat!
28. Let me know when you're finished so that I can check your work!

Remember: 4 beats gets you a C, 5 beats gets you a B, 6 beats gets you an A!

Welcome Back!

Welcome back class and happy new year! I hope you all enjoyed your break. It has been roughly 2 weeks since you have made beats, so lets spend this week reviewing the things we've learned this semester. Heads Up: The semester is almost over. There will NOT be a traditional "Final" test. Instead, your final will be based on the number of Full beats you make, a minimum of 4 full beats need to be made if you want to burn a cd on our last week.

Now that all of that is out of our way, lets get started.

1. Open Reason

2. Create an MClass Mastering Suite Combi

3. Create a Mixer 14:2

4. Move your Right Loop Point (R) to 5

5. Create a Redrum and make a 32 step beat using a clap or snare, a bass drum, a hi hat and a percussion. Copy it to track.

6. Create a Dr. REX Loop Player. Load in a Dr. Rex Percussion Loop and put it to track.

7. Create a Synthesizer (a.k.a. a Combinator, Subtractor, Malstrom, NN19, NNXT)

8. Use your keyboard to record in your own melody. When you finish recording your melody and you know that it is correct, click the quantize button. Use the pencil tool to draw a box over your recorded parts.

9. Repeat steps 7 & 8

10. You should have 2 original melodies, 1 Redrum pattern, and 1 Dr. Rex Loop: All should be on the track.

SAVE YOUR BEAT!!! Tomorrow you will turn these beats into Full Beats!

Full Song Quiz

Welcome to the quiz! Today you're going to take the beats you made yesterday and turn them into full songs. If you were absent yesterday, you MUST do that assignment before doing the quiz! There will be only ONE MAKE-UP DAY FOR THE QUIZ, FRIDAY THE 19th! I will be here until 4:30 on Friday for you to make up the quiz. Now that we've got all of that out the way, lets get started!

1. Open Reason

2. Go to FILE: Open. Load the beat you made yesterday. Make sure ALL PARTS ARE ON THE TRACK.

3. Highlight all your parts.

4. Go to Edit: Copy

5. Make sure your "P" is @ #9. Go to Edit: Paste. Paste all the way to #33.

6. Make an intro for your song. The intro is from L1-R9.

7. Now go to L17-R33. Make the part of your song that is the verse.

8. Highlight all parts of your beat between L9-R33.

9. Go to EDIT: COPY. Make sure your "P" is at 33. Go to EDIT: PASTE. Paste it 2 times.

10. Highlight all parts of your beat between L57-R65. Go to EDIT: COPY. MOVE YOUR "P" to 81! Go to EDIT: PASTE. Paste 2 times.

11. Make the outro of your song. The outro is between 89-97.

12. Set your song to be L1-R97. SAVE YOUR WORK!

13. Let me know when you're finished so I can grade your work!

Great Work!

Full Beat Quiz Prep

Today we are going to make our beats that we are going to use for our quiz this coming Thursday. Make sure that you follow these steps as close as possible!

1. Open Reason

2. Create an MClass Mastering Suite Combi

3. Create a Mixer 14:2

4. Set your tempo in between 70-110

5. Create a Redrum. Make a 32 step beat using a clap/snare, a bass drum, a hi hat, and a percussion. Set your "Right Loop Point" to R5. Copy your pattern to track, then click the "pattern" button.

6. Create a Combinator. Pick a Synth Poly of your choice.

7. When you are ready, record your melody. Quantize it, then use the Pencil tool to draw a box around your melody. This will make it easier when making a full beat.

8. Now create a synthesizer of your choice (a synthesizer is the NN19, NNXT, Subtractor, Malstrom, or Combinator). Record yourself playing in a 2nd melody. Don't forget to quantize it and draw a box around it.

9. Create a Dr. REX Loop Player. Load in a Dr. REX Percussion Loop and put it to track.

When you are finished, you should have a 32 step Redrum beat on the track, 2 melodies on the track, and 1 Dr. REX loop on the track. SAVE YOUR BEATS as (your name) full beat quiz. REMEMBER: THIS IS THE BEAT YOU ARE USING FOR THE QUIZ ON THURSDAY!

Quiz Coming This Thursday!!!

Due to this coming Friday being a minimum day, we will be having our usual Friday quiz on Thursday instead. We will be spending the next few days practicing how to turn our beats into full songs so that you will have a better understanding of the lesson.

Song Format!

Today we are going to start putting our beats into song format. The format we will be using is:

INTRO 1-9
CHORUS 9-17
VERSE 17-33
CHORUS 33-41
VERSE 41-57
CHORUS 57-65
VERSE 65-81
CHORUS 81-89
OUTRO 89-97

1. Open Reason.
2. Open your beat you made yesterday.
   
3. Make sure you have all your parts Copied To Track.
4. Highlight all your parts.
5. Go to the Edit Window, Select Copy.
6. Go to the Edit Window, Select Paste.
7. Move the Right Loop Point to 33.
8. Paste your parts until you get to the Right Loop Point.
9. Save your beat.
10. Now focus on the INTRO, 1-9. Your intro is the first impression people get when they hear your song. It's like when you meet someone for the very first time, you can't tell the person your life story in a sentence, but you can give them an idea about you and your personality in the way that you greet them.
    
    The best intros make the listener want to hear more, the worst make the listener skip to the next song. The intro usually drops one of the parts from the beat. If you drop the drums or the bass line, it can cause some tension, and bring the listener in.
11. Focus on the Intro from 1-9.
12. Delete a part such as the drums or bass line to "Introduce" your beat.
13. Save your beat.
14. Now we can work on the Verse.
15. Remember, from yesterday, the verse is the part of the song that tells the story and is different every time.
16. We want to create space for a vocalist in our verse.
17. From 17-33, delete the melody from your song.
18. Now, we have 3 sections. The Intro from 1-9, the Chorus from 9-17, and the Verse from 17-33.
19. Highlight all the parts between 9-33.
20. In the Edit window, select Copy.
21. In the Edit window, select Paste two times.
22. Now Highlight all the parts between 9-17.
23. In the Edit window, select Copy.
24. Move your cursor to 81.
25. In the Edit window, select Paste.
26. From 81-89 Create an Outro by deleting all the parts except for your melody.
27. Save your beat!
28. Let me know when you're finished so that I can check your work!

Congratulations, you've made your first full beat!