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.