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!
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!
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.
Make sure you have all your parts Copied To Track.
Highlight all your parts.
Go to the Edit Window, Select Copy.
Go to the Edit Window, Select Paste.
Move the Right Loop Point to 33.
Paste your parts until you get to the Right Loop Point.
Save your beat.
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.
Focus on the Intro from 1-9.
Delete a part such as the drums or bass line to "Introduce" your beat.
Save your beat.
Now we can work on the Verse.
Remember, from yesterday, the verse is the part of the song that tells the story and is different every time.
We want to create space for a vocalist in our verse.
From 17-33, delete the melody from your song.
Now, we have 3 sections. The Intro from 1-9, the Chorus from 9-17, and the Verse from 17-33.
Highlight all the parts between 9-33.
In the Edit window, select Copy.
In the Edit window, select Paste two times.
Now Highlight all the parts between 9-17.
In the Edit window, select Copy.
Move your cursor to 81.
In the Edit window, select Paste.
From 81-89 Create an Outro by deleting all the parts except for your melody.
Save your beat!
Let me know when you're finished so that I can check your work!
Congratulations, you've made your first 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.
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.
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.
