2/20_Copying and Pasting/C-Minor chord

Basic

By the end of this class, you need to have turned in 3 Reason files from the assignments this week:

1. your name_2 Patterns
2. your name_32 Step
3. your name_Calabria (today's assignment)
   

Please make sure that these are turned in to the Dropoff folder before you leave today. If you're not sure how to do this, just ask!

Today we're going to start to build our songs by copying and pasting regions in the Sequencer Window.

First of all, what are regions?

Regions are the building blocks you use to put together a song in Reason. They look like colored blocks in the Sequencer Window. Like this...

We have been creating regions everytime we did Copy Pattern to Track with the Redrum.

The cool thing is, once you've got a region in the Sequencer Window, you can copy it as many times as you want to quickly stretch your beat out into a whole song.

To copy just do this:

1. Hold down the OPTION key on your keyboard.
   
2. Click and drag the region you want to copy it wherever you want to put it.
   

OK, so your assignment today is as follows:

1. Copy the file called "Calabria.rns" to your Home folder. You can get it from either the Pickup folder (Pickupdropoff>BAVAC>Pickup>Period 5) or from Mr. Runde's Jump drive.
2. Open the file and hit SPACEBAR to listen to the melody.
3. Create a Redrum drum machine and make a 2-bar (32 step beat) to go along with the melody.
4. Put the pattern into the Sequencer window using Copy Pattern to Track. Make sure the L is on Bar 1 and the R is on Bar 3).
5. Now Copy and Paste the drums and the saxophone regions so that they both end on Bar 9.
6. Turn off Enable Pattern Section in the Redrum.
7. Play back the whole beat and listen to it.
8. If you are happy with it, then go to File>Save As and save the file to your Home folder. Be sure to change the filename to: your name_Calabria.
9. Put a copy of the file in the Dropoff folder (Pickupdropoff>BAVAC>Dropoff>Period 5).

At this point, you should make sure you've turned in all 3 beats. If you're not sure, just go ahead and turn them in again.

If you've turned everything in, let one of the instructors know and they'll tell you what to do next....


Advanced

Advanced folks should be finished with the G Major chord (be sure to turn it in to the Dropoff folder!!!) and be starting on C-Minor chord assignment.

Same deal as with G-Major:

1. Get your keyboard worksheet from Mr. Runde or Corina.
2. Label all the notes of the C-Minor scale.
   
3. Open Reason and lay down an 8-16 bar drum beat from either the Redrum or Dr. Rex.
4. In Reason, create a melodic instrument (Subtractor/Malstrom/NN19/NNXT). Make sure that it is one where you can play more than one note at a time - not a Bass or Mono Synth patch.
   
5. Looking at your worksheet, find the 1st/3rd/5th notes of the C-Minor scale, then find those notes on your Oxygen 8 keyboard.
6. Practice playing the C-Minor chord over your drum beat. When you are ready, go ahead and record yourself.
7. Create another melodic instrument and come up with a melody to play over your chord. Record it.
8. Save this as your name_CMinorchord and turn it in to the Dropoff folder (Pickupdropoff>BAVAC>Dropoff>Period 5).

Have a great weekend!!!