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!

Song Format (Making a full beat)

Yesterday I talked with you all about full songs and what they contain. As a reminder, a full song usually contains the following: an intro, a chorus, verses and an outro. Sometimes there's also a bridge. Today I want to begin what will be our first full beats in the class. Before we can make a full beat, we need to make all of our parts, so we'll start by doing that today. Lets get started.

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 Lead 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 for when we begin to turn the beat into a full song.

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. We will start working on turning these into full beats on Thursday.

Chords Quiz

Welcome to the Chord Quiz. This will in fact be, the most important test you take in your life...as a student in my class...today...Lets get started!

1. Open Reason

2. Create a Mixer 14:2

3. Set your tempo between 80-110

4. Create a Redrum. Make a 32 step beat using the usual sounds and copy the pattern to track

5. Create a Combinator

6. Go to Reason Factory Sound Bank: Combinator Patches: Rhythmic

7. Choose any sound that you think sounds good

8. Practice making chords using either the white keys or the black keys on the keyboard. When you're ready, record your melody.

9. Quantize the melody when finished recording.

10. Create a Dr. REX Loop Player

11. Load in a Dr. REX Percussion Loop. DO NOT PUT IT TO TRACK!

12. Use the keyboard to make your own pattern with the percussion loop. When you're ready, record yourself using the keyboard with the Dr. REX.

13. Quantize the pattern.

14. When you're finished, let me know so that I can grade your work!

15. Save your work as (your name) chord quiz.


Great Work!

Chord Quiz Practice

Tomorrow is the quiz. To make sure you are prepared, take this time to review everything that we have learned this week. The quiz will be slightly different than what we are doing today in this review. Lets get started!

1. Open Reason

2. Create Mixer 14:2

3. Set your tempo in between 80-110.

4. Create a Redrum.

5. Make a 32 step redrum beat using a clap (on 5 & 13), a bass drum (on 1 and 3-4
more boxes), a hi hat (anywhere), and a percussion (anywhere).

6. Copy your pattern to track, then click the pattern button.

7. Create a Combinator.

8. Click on the folder: Go to Reason Factory Sound Bank: Combinator Patches: Orchestral

9. Choose any Orchestral sound

10. Play your Redrum beat & practice using major or minor chords!

11. When you are ready, set your Right Loop Point (R) to 5.

12. Record yourself playing your chords in. When you are finished, press the record button again to stop recording.

13. Click the quantize button.

14. Create a Dr. Rex Loop Player.

15. Load in a Dr. Rex Percussion Loop and put it To Track.

Chords with Black Keys

Yesterday we started working on using chords with the keyboard. I heard a lot of good work! However, there is one thing I want you guys to remember and that's when you're playing a chord, you're pressing all the keys in the chord at the same time. So now that we have had some practice playing chords in with the white keys of the keyboard, today lets use the black keys of our keyboards to make a chord melody. Here we go!

1. Open Reason

2. Create Mixer 14:2

3. Set your tempo in between 80-110.

4. Create a Redrum.

5. Make a 32 step redrum beat using a clap (on 5 & 13), a bass drum (on 1 and 3-4
more boxes), a hi hat (anywhere), and a percussion (anywhere).

6. Copy your pattern to track, then click the pattern button.

7. Create a Combinator.

8. Click on the folder: Go to Reason Factory Sound Bank: Combinator Patches: Synth Poli

9. Choose the sound called Bright-DLI-Poly.cmb

10. Play your Redrum beat & practice using a minor chord with the black keys of the keyboard. REMEMBER: You will be using 2 or more keys at the SAME TIME!

11. When you are ready, set your Right Loop Point (R) to 5.

12. Record yourself playing your chords in. When you are finished, press the record button again to stop recording.

13. Click the quantize button.

14. Create a Dr. Rex Loop Player.

15. Load in a Dr. Rex Percussion Loop and put it To Track.

Chords

Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed your thanksgiving break. If you remember, the last thing we did in this class was a quiz on making our own original melodies using the keyboards. This week, we are going to expand on that with an exercise using a method called chords. Chords can be complex or simple but, the thing to remember is that there are 2 SCALES: MAJOR & MINOR. That means that there are MAJOR & MINOR CHORDS. To make a chord, you're going to use more than one key on the keyboard at a time. Some chords have 2 keys, 3 keys, 4 keys, etc. Today we're going to do major chords. If you remember, the major scale is all the white keys, so we're going to make chords using the white keys of the keyboard. Lets get started!

1. Open Reason

2. Create Mixer 14:2

3. Set your tempo in between 80-110.

4. Create a Redrum.

5. Make a 32 step redrum beat using a clap (on 5 & 13), a bass drum (on 1 and 3-4
more boxes), a hi hat (anywhere), and a percussion (anywhere).

6. Copy your pattern to track, then click the pattern button.

7. Create an NN-XT Advanced Sampler.

8. Click on the folder: Go to Reason Factory Sound Bank: NN-XT Patches: Piano

9. Choose sound A Grand Piano.sxt

10. Play your Redrum beat & practice using a major chord with the keyboard.

11. When you are ready, set your Right Loop Point (R) to 5.

12. Record yourself playing your chords in. When you are finished, press the record button again to stop recording.

13. Click the quantize button.

14. Create a Dr. Rex Loop Player.

15. Load in a Dr. Rex Percussion Loop and put it To Track.


You have finished todays assignment. Good work!

Keyboard Melody Quiz

Alright class, this is it. This is what we've all been waiting for. The moment is here! All the blood, sweat and tears you've spent practice has prepared you for this moment! This quiz will separate the teens from the pre-teens & the pre-teens from the children. Welcome to...*suspense music*...the first quiz of the 3rd marking period!!!

1. Open Reason
2. Create 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 the correct boxes!
5. Copy your pattern to track.
6. Now Create a Combinator: choose Synth Leads: And choose any sound in the Synth Lead folder.
   
7. Move the Right loop point to R5
   
8. Create a melody using notes from the C MINOR scale or the C MAJOR scale, whichever you prefer. Use between 3 and 5 different notes
9. Quantize your melody.
   
10. Create a Dr. Rex and load a Percussion Loop.
11. DO NOT PUT IT TO TRACK.
12. Use the keyboard to play a pattern with the Dr. Rex Loop Player.
13. Quantize your pattern.
14. Let me know when you're finished and I will grade your work.
    
15. Save your beat as (YOUR NAME) melody quiz.
16. Congratulations! You've finished the first quiz!

Tomorrow DAT will be returning. Be prepared for another rhyme exercise!

Thursday Quiz Practice

It's that time again! Friday is a minimum day so...this Thursday we will be having a quiz on using the keyboard to make our own original melodies. I want to give you these next few days to practice. Lets get started! To help you out with using the keyboard, here is a picture of piano keys with each key/note labeled.









Notice how the white keys/notes are just letters but the black notes/keys end with a lower case b or a #? The lower case b means that this note is a MINOR note, The white keys are the MAJOR Notes. This will become helpful in the future.

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. Now Create a Malstrom: choose Mono Synths: And choose any sound in the Mono Synths folder.
   
7. Move the Right loop point to R3
   
8. Create a melody using notes from the C MINOR scale or the C MAJOR scale, whichever you prefer. Use between 3 and 5 different notes
9. When you have finished making your melody, hit the quantize button. The quantize button helps to fix your melody if you make a mistake and it is off the rhythm of your Redrum beat.
   
10. Create a Dr. Rex and load a Percussion Loop.
11. Put it To Track
    
12. Save your beat as (YOUR NAME) keyboard quiz practice.

Keyboard pt. 2

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. Now Create a Malstrom: choose Mono Synths: And choose any sound in the Mono Synths folder.
   
7. Move the Right loop point to R3
   
8. Create a melody using notes from the C major scale (the white keys). Use between 3 and 5 different notes
9. When you have finished making your melody, hit the quantize button. The quantize button helps to fix your melody if you make a mistake and it is off the rhythm of your Redrum beat.
   
10. Create a Dr. Rex and load a Percussion Loop.
11. Don't copy it to track! Play the different slices using the keyboard. When you have something cool, record it.
12. When you finish recording the Percussion loop, don't forget to press the quantize button.
    
13. Save your beat as (YOUR NAME) keyboard2.

The Keyboard

The past 2 weeks we have been working with the keyboards using a Dr. Rex to change the melody of a Dr. Rex Loop. Some of you had an issue with hitting the keyboard and not hearing a sound. That was because of a certain thing on the keyboard called "Octave". Today we are going to make our own melodies using the Keyboard. Almost every "Octave" should play a sound when using a Combinator, NNXT, NN19, Subtractor, or Malstrom. Today, we will be making Redrum drum beats and using the Subtractor to add our own original melody. Lets get started!

Did you notice that the keyboard looks like the Matrix?

I want you to make a 2 bar melody using between 3-5 notes with a Redrum 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. Now Create a Subtractor: choose Mono Synths: And choose any sound in the Mono Synths folder.
   
7. Move the Right loop point to R3
   
8. Create a melody using notes from the C minor scale. Use between 3 and 5 different notes
9. When you have finished making your melody, hit the quantize button and record it.
10. Create a Dr. Rex and load a Percussion Loop.
11. Don't copy it to track! Play the different slices using the keyboard. When you have something cool, record it.
12. When you finish recording the Percussion loop, don't forget to press the quantize button.
    
13. Save your beat as (YOUR NAME) 1108.

Keyboard Rex Quiz

It's quiz time! We've had our time to practice, now lets see what you can come up with! I expect to hear a lot of creative beats! Lets get started!

1. Open Reason

2. Create Mixer 14:2

3. Set your TEMPO in between 80-110

4. Create a Redrum Drum Computer and make a 16 or 32 step beat using a clap/snare, bass drum, hi hat, and percussion

5. Copy your Redrum pattern to track.

6. Move your R to 3

7. Create a Dr. Rex

8. Load in either a Music Loop, Guitar Loop, or Hip-Hop Loop. Do NOT put it "To Track"

9. Play your beat. Use the keyboard to practice making the Dr. Rex loop original.

10. When you are ready, Record the Dr. Rex keyboard loop you created.

11. Let me know when you've finished your work, I will check it and let you know your grade.

12. Save your work as (your name) keyboard rex quiz.

Great work! You may now quietly have free time. Do NOT interrupt anybody who hasn't finished their quiz!

Practice for Friday Quiz

This Friday we will be having a quiz on using the Dr. REX and the keyboard together. We will be using The next few days to make some practice beats. Lets get started!

1. Open Reason
2. Make sure you have a Mixer 14:2
3. Set Tempo in between 80-110
   
4. Now lets make a 16 or 32 step beat!
   
5. Create Redrum
6. In Sound 1 on the Redrum, load a Clap and put it on 5 and 13.
7. In Sound 2 on the Redrum, load a Bass Drum and put it on 1, and a few other boxes (except 5 and 13).
   
8. In Sound 3 on the Redrum, load a Hi Hat and put it on boxes that sound good.
9. In Sound 4 on the Redrum, load a Percussion sound and put it anywhere.
10. If you're making a 32 step beat, we want to edit steps 17-32. If not, skip to step 14.
    
11. Change the steps of the Redrum from 16 to 32.
12. Move the Edit Steps from 1-16 to 17-32.
13. Repeat steps 6 through 9.
14. Now that you've finished making your pattern, it's time to Copy Pattern To Track.
15. Right click on the Redrum and select Copy Pattern to Track.
16. Click on the PATTERN button on the Redrum so that they don't play at the same time.
17. Move your Right Loop point to R3
    
18. Create a Dr. Rex instrument loop.
19. Go to the Create menu and Create a Dr. Rex Loop Player.
20. We need to load a loop, so click on the folder in the upper left hand corner of the loop player.
21. Choose one of your favorite loops.
22. Now, we're going to play the loop using the keyboard.
23. Push play and try making a new melody using the keyboard.
    
24. When you find a melody that you like, push record, wait for the cursor to get back to the L and start playing!
25. When you are done, push stop.
26. Save your beat as Rex Keyboard Practice
    

Friday's Assignment

Go to Friday's assignment and complete the Halloween project.

Halloween 3425: The Curse of Reason 3.0

Are you scared yet? Today we're going to be using a sample from the movie Halloween and making our own remixes to it. There is 2 ways this can be done....1) Copying the loop to track or 2) Using the keyboard to make your own melody out of the sample. I recommend using the keyboard with this loop. Okay, with that being said, grab your theoretical knife, grab your theoretical mask, put on your theoretical jumpsuit and KILL (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)...this beat!

1. ) Download the 2 Dr. Rex Loops from the following links: http://www.zshare.net/download/506932732bf9e493/ & http://www.zshare.net/download/50693307ed9689a8/

2.) Open Reason

3.) Create Mixer 14:2

4.) Set your tempo between 80-120.

5.) Create a Redrum Drum Computer and make either a 16 step or 32 step beat.

6.) Create a Dr. Rex Loop Player.

7.) Click on the folder to find a sound. In the menu, select "Desktop" to find the Halloween samples. Choose either Halloween1 or Halloween2.

8.) Either copy the pattern to the track or use the keyboard to make your own melody out of the sample. For keyboard instructions continue reading.

9.) Play your Redrum beat and practice your rhythm using the sample on the keyboard. When you are ready, Put your L at 1 and your R at 3.

10.) Press the record button and play in your melody with your keyboard. When you are finished, press the record button again to stop recording.

11.) Press the QUANTIZE button to fix your keyboard melody if you think it is off beat.

12.) Save the beat as (Your Name) Halloween.

Keyboard and the Dr. Rex

This entire week, we will be using the keyboard and dr. rex to practice on our skills. Lets get started!

The Keyboard

The Keyboard

Today we are going to introduce a new instrument: The Keyboard

1. Open Reason
2. Make sure you have a Mixer 14:2
3. Set Tempo to 95 bpm
4. For this exercise, let's make a 32 step beat!
   
5. Create Redrum
6. In Sound 1 on the Redrum, load a Clap and put it on 5 and 13.
7. In Sound 2 on the Redrum, load a Bass Drum and put it on 1, and a few other boxes (except 5 and 13).
   
8. In Sound 3 on the Redrum, load a Hi Hat and put it on boxes that sound good.
9. In Sound 4 on the Redrum, load a Percussion sound and put it anywhere.
10. Now, we want to edit steps 17-32.
11. Change the steps of the Redrum from 16 to 32.
12. Move the Edit Steps from 1-16 to 17-32.
13. Repeat steps 6 through 9.
14. Now that you've finished making your pattern, it's time to Copy Pattern To Track.
15. Right click on the Redrum and select Copy Pattern to Track.
16. Click on the PATTERN button on the Redrum so that they don't play at the same time.
17. Move your Right Loop point to R3
    
18. Now we want to Create a Dr. Rex instrument loop.
19. Go to the Create menu and Create a Dr. Rex Loop Player.
20. We need to load a loop, so click on the folder in the upper left hand corner of the loop player.
21. Choose one of your favorite loops.
22. Now, we're going to play the loop using the keyboard. Hear how when you play the keyboard it plays different slices of your Dr. Rex?
23. Push play and try making a new melody using the keyboard.
    
24. When you find a melody that you like, push record, wait for the cursor to get back to the L and start playing!
25. When you are done, push stop.
26. Save your beat as Keyboard Rex.

More Beat Practice

Okay class, today we're going to continue making some practice beats. Use the steps from yesterdays work to create a new beat. DO NOT

Beat Practice

1. Open Reason

2. Create Mixer 14:2

3. If you want to make a regular beat, set your tempo to 80-110. If you want to make a double time beat, set your tempo to 65-75.

4. Create a Redrum and make a 16 OR 32 step "regular" or "double time" beat using the methods we've learned in class. Your beat should have a Clap or Snare Drum, a Bass Drum, a Hi Hat, and a Percussion.

5. Copy your pattern to track.

6. Create a Dr. Rex and load in a Music Loop or Dr. Rex Instrument Loop. Put it "To Track".

7. Create a Combinator, Malstrom, or Subtractor & choose any synth sound you want.

8. Create a Matrix.

9. Using the matrix, try to create a 16 or 32 step melody that you feel sounds right with your Dr. Rex loop.

10. Copy your melody to track. Highlight it on the track and bring it to the spot where it should be.

11. Now create another Dr. Rex Loop Player. Load in a Dr. Rex Percussion loop and put it "To Track".

12. Let me or Vernell know when you have finished so we may check your work.

13. Save Your Beat as (your name) Beat Practice.

Good Work! Don't be like this guy!

Double Time Quiz

1. Open Reason
2. Create a Mixer 14:2
3. Set your tempo between 65-75
4. Create a Redrum Drum Computer
5. Change your RESOLUTION to 1/32
6. Make a 16 or 32 step double time Redrum beat
7. When you're finished, copy your pattern to track
8. Create a Dr. Rex Loop Player, load in any Dr. Rex Percussion Loop and put it to track
9. Create a Combinator, Subtractor, or Malstrom
10. Pick any mono or poly synth
11. Create a Matrix Pattern Sequencer
12. Using the matrix, create a melody that is either 8, 16, or 32 steps.
13. Copy your pattern to to track
14. Highlight your Matrix pattern on the track and move it up or down to where it should be.
15. Let me know when you've finished your assignment so I can check it.
16. Save your beat as (your name) double time quiz


Congratulations! You may QUIETLY have free time AT YOUR SEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Double Time Quiz Tomorrow

Tomorrow we will be having a quiz on making double time beats. Today is a practice day so you will be prepared for the quiz. Use the steps from last weeks assignment to create a new double time beat.

Double Time Continued

Use the instructions from Tuesday's assignment to create a new double time beat.

Redrum Double Time

Today we're going to do something different with the Redrum. Normally we make our Redrum beats with claps on 5 & 13 but, today we're going to make our Redrum a "Double Time" beat. A double time beat is a beat that normally would be at a slow tempo but is twice as fast. It may sound complicated but you'll see that once you start it can be very simple.


1. Open Reason
2. Create a Mixer 14:2
3. Set your tempo between 65-75.
4. Create a Redrum
5. Now, change the RESOLUTION of the Redrum to 1/32. This will turn the beat into a double time beat.
6. Pick any snare or clap you want and put it on box 9.
7. Pick any bass drum you want and put it on box 1 AND 3 to 4 more boxes of your choice.
8. Pick any hi hat you want and put the hi hat on any of the boxes you want.
9. Now change your steps to 32 and more your EDIT STEPS button to 17-32.
10. Repeat steps 6-8.
11. Once you've finished your 32 step double time beat, copy it to track.
12. Create a Dr. Rex and load in any percussion loop & put it to track.
13. Create a Malstrom or Combinator and choose any Monosynth or Polysynth of your choice.
14. Create a Matrix and make your own 8, 16, or 32 step melody.
15. Copy it to track.
16. Save your beat as (your name) double time.

Matrix Quiz

On today's quiz we are going to make an 8 step melody, 16 step melody, or 32 step melody.

1. Make sure you have a Mixer 14:2
2. Set Tempo to anything between 70-110 bpm
   
3. Create a Malstrom or a Combinator.
   
4. Click on the folder of whatever instrument you choose.
5. Go to Reason Factory Sound Bank: Malstrom Patches: Mono Synths: Choose any sound. If you picked the Combinator, go to Reason Factory Sound Bank: Combinator Patches: Synth Poly: Choose any sound.
   
6. Create a Matrix!
7. On the Matrix, set your steps to either 8, 16, or 32.
   
8. You may want to change the Matrix from Octave 3 to Octave 4, or maybe down to Octave 2.
9. Now turn the volume off on three of the steps if your steps are 8. Turn the volume off 6 notes if your steps are 16. Turn your volume off 12 notes if your steps are 32.
   
10. Create your melody, then copy it to track using these steps:
    
11. Move your Right loop point to R3.
12. Right Click on the Matrix and select Copy Pattern To Track.
13. Move the Right loop point to R5 and the Left loop point to L3.
14. On the Matrix, Select Pattern 2.
15. Move the Octave Switch up one Octave from the one you are on.
16. Create the EXACT SAME MELODY FROM PATTERN 1 BUT MAKE SURE THIS MELODY IS ONE OCTAVE HIGHER THAN PATTERN 1!
17. Copy pattern 2 to track. Make sure that L is at 3 and R is at 5.
    
18. Move the Left loop point to L1.
19. Click the Pattern Button on the Matrix.
20. Create a Redrum and make a 16 or 32 step drum pattern using a Clap or Snap, Bass Drum, Hi Hat, and Percussion. Make sure you put the sounds on appropriate boxes!
21. On the Redrum, Copy Pattern To Track and turn the Pattern Button off.
22. Create a Dr. Rex.
23. Load in a Dr. Rex Percussion Loop of your choice.
24. Push the "To Track" button on the Dr. Rex.
    
25. Save your beat as (YOUR NAME) QUIZ 1008.
26. Let me or Vernell know when you have finished your work so we can check it.
27. Congratulations! You have completed the quiz!
    

Quiz Practice Cont.'d

Today we are continuing our practice beats for the quiz on Thursday. Use the instructions from yesterdays assignment to create a new beat.

Practice for Thursday Quiz

Friday there is no school, so instead of a Friday quiz, we will have a Thursday quiz this week. The quiz will be about using the Matrix to make a melody with 2 octaves. Today & tomorrow will be practice days. Lets get started!

1. Open Reason
2. Make sure you have a Mixer 14:2
3. Set Tempo between 70-110 bpm
   
4. Create a Malstrom, Combinator, or Subtractor
   
5. Click on the folder to load a sound.
   
6. Go to Reason Factory Sound Bank: Malstrom Patches: Mono Synths: Choose any of the patches. For the Combinator, go to Reason Factory Sound Bank: Combinator Patches: Synth Poly: Choose any of the patches. For the Subtractor, go to Reason Factory Sound Bank: Subtractor Patches: Mono Synths: Choose any of the patches.
   
7. Create a Matrix.
   
8. On the Matrix, your steps can be either 8, 16, or 32.
   
9. On the Matrix, move the Octave switch, on the left from the keyboard, from 3 to 4.
10. Turn the Volume off on 3 notes if your steps are 8, 6 notes if your steps are 16, and 12 notes if your steps are 32.
11. Create a melody with between 3-5 notes if your steps are 8, 6-10 notes if your steps are 16, and 12-20 notes if your steps are 32.
    
12. Now copy this pattern to track.
13. On the Matrix, Select Pattern 2.
14. Move the Octave Switch from 4 to 5.
15. On the Matrix, create the same melody from pattern 1 but, with your octave in 5.
16. Copy this pattern to track
    
17. Click the Pattern Button on the Matrix.
18. Highlight all the boxes in the sequencer window and drag them up to the Malstrom/Combinator/Subtractor track.
19. Create a Redrum and create a beat using a Clap or Snap, Bass Drum, High Hat, and Percussion.
20. When you have finished the beat, Copy Pattern To Track.
21. Create a Dr. Rex.
22. Load in a Dr. Rex Percussion Loop.
23. On The Dr. Rex, click To Track...and "push play"
24. Save your beat.

Baby Don't Go Part 2

Today we are going to continue with the Baby Don't Go beat that we started yesterday.

If you haven't made the drum beat, do yesterdays assignment first. If you have already done the drum beat, do todays assignment.

1. Open Reason
2. Open the Baby Don't Go beat
3. Create a Combinator
4. Click on the folder on the Combinator
   
5. Go to Reason Factory Sound Bank: Combinator Patches: Bells and Mallets: Metheney Marimba
6. Create a Matrix
7. Change the Steps from 16 to 32
   
8. On the Matrix move the Octave down from 3 to 2.
9. Make your Matrix look like this:
10. Move the Octave switch back up to 3.
11. Make your Matrix look like this:
12. Move the Octave switch up to 4.
13. Make your Matrix look like this:
14. Move the Octave switch up to 5.
15. Make your Matrix look like this:
16. Save your beat!

Baby Don't Go Part 1

Today we are beginning a 2 part assignment. Today, all we will be doing is making a 32 step beat on the redrum. Tomorrow, will be a challenging exercise using the matrix to recreate the melody of the Fabolous song "Baby Don't Go" produced by Jermaine Dupri.

1. Open Reason
2. Make sure you have a Mixer 14:2
3. Set Tempo to 100 bpm
4. Create Redrum
5. In Sound 1 on the Redrum, load Clap (clp_photek) and put it on 5 and 13.
6. In Sound 2 on the Redrum, load Bass Drum (bd_basic) and put it on 1, 2, 3, 7 and 9.
7. In Sound 3 on the Redrum, load Hi Hat (hh_basic) and put it on all the boxes.
8. Now, we need to do the second bar of the beat.
9. Change the steps of the Redrum from 16 to 32.
10. Move the Edit Steps from 1-16 to 17-32.
11. Now push Select on Sound 1. Put it on Boxes 5 and 13.
12. Now push Select on Sound 2. Put it on Boxes 1, 4, 7, and 9.
13. Now push Select on Sound 3. Put it on all the boxes.
14. Right Click on the Redrum and select Copy Pattern To Track.
15. Turn the Pattern button off on the Redrum.
16. Save your beat as Baby Don't Go.
17. Listen to the real Baby Don't Go
18. What are three things that sound different between your version and the original?

Making A 2 Octave Melody

Today we are going to create our own melodies using the technique that Lil Jon used in Snap Yo Fingaz.

1. Open Reason
2. Make sure you have a Mixer 14:2
3. Set Tempo between 70-110 bpm
   
4. Create a Malstrom
5. On The Malstrom, click on the folder in the upper left hand corner.
6. Go to Reason Factory Sound Bank: Malstrom Patches: Mono Synths: Choose any of the patches
   
7. Create a Matrix.
   
8. On the Matrix, change the steps from 16 to 8.
9. On the Matrix, move the Octave switch, on the left from the keyboard, from 3 to 4.
10. Turn the Volume off on three notes.
11. Create a melody with between three and five notes.
    
12. Now, move your Right loop point to R3.
13. Right Click on the Matrix and select Copy Pattern To Track.
14. Move the Right loop point to R5 and the Left loop point to L3.
15. On the Matrix, Select Pattern 2.
16. Move the Octave Switch from 4 to 5.
17. On the Matrix, change the steps from 16 to 8.
18. Create the same melody you made for Pattern 1.
    
19. Right Click on the Matrix and Select Copy Pattern To Track.
20. Move the Left loop point to L1.
21. Click the Pattern Button on the Matrix.
22. Highlight all the boxes in the sequencer window and drag them up to the Malstrom track.
23. Create a Redrum and create a beat using a Clap or Snap, Bass Drum, High Hat, and Percussion.
24. When you have finished the beat, Copy Pattern To Track.
25. Create a Dr. Rex.
26. Load in a Dr. Rex Percussion Loop.
27. On The Dr. Rex, click To Track...and "push play"
28. Save your beat as anything you want.