Welcome back! Hope you had a lovely and relaxing break and are ready to wind up our last 2 weeks together. For the next couple of days I'm just going to give you a few different tips and suggestions that might give you new ideas for your music. Today we're going to work on making a drum beat using two different methods other than the way most of us are used to: playing live with the keyboard and using the Pencil Tool to draw in notes.
Why would you want to be able to play drums live, rather than just using the drum sequencer?
Please do the following:
- Open a new Reason session.
- Create a Redrum and load a bass drum, snare/clap and a hi hat.
- Set a 4-bar loop (L on Bar 1, R on Bar 5).
- Make sure the Click Track is on and hit play.
- Listen to the tempo of the click and adjust it if necessary.
- Play some keys to make sure you can hear your drums. If you can't hear them, hit the Octave Down button once.
- Find where your drum sounds are on the keyboard (probably the first 3 keys on the left side).
- Find the bass and the snare/clap.
- Practice playing a beat over the click and MAKE SURE YOU ARE PLAYING IN TIME WITH IT! Hint: Which drum goes on the 1st beat? What about the 2nd and 4th?
- When you are ready, go ahead and record yourself.
- Now go into the Edit View and check out the notes you just played.
Highlight them all and Quantize them (Edit>Quantize Notes).- Listen again and see if anything got moved in a weird way. If it did, just click on the bad note and drag it to the right place.
- Now let's put in some Hi Hats...click on the Pencil Tool and draw in some notes on the Hi Hat lane.
Go back out to the Arrange View and use the Pencil Tool to draw a box around the 4-bars you just played.
Copy this pattern to make the whole beat play for 16 bars.- If you have time, go ahead and make a different beat for the Chorus section.
- Save this beat to your folder as "(your name)_Live Drums.rns".
We will be working with this tomorrow, so make sure you have it saved before you leave today!
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