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?