Thursday, February 5, 2009

Finding Notes (continued)


Today you're going to continue working on finding notes that go along with a Dr. Rex loop of your choice.

  1. Start a new Reason session.
  2. Create a Dr. Rex sample player.
  3. Load a drum loop into it and put it into your song for 4 bars.
  4. Now create a second Dr. Rex and load a melodic loop into it. Put it into your song over the drums (4 bars).
  5. Create a melodic instrument (NN19/Subtractor/NNXT/Malstrom) and load some a melodic sound into it - e.g piano, guitar, synthesizers, etc.
  6. Play your loop back and listen to the melody.
  7. Find at least 2 notes that go along with the melodic loop.
  8. Practice and record a simple melody over the loop.
  9. Now create a second melodic instrument and load a sound that is in a different range than the instrument you recorded before this - so if you picked a high-pitched instrument last time, pick a low pitched one this time, and vice-versa.
  10. Come up with a new melody and record it. Try to make it different from the part you just recorded before - either change the notes, or the rhythm of how you are playing them.
  11. Once you have your 2 original melodies and 2 Dr. Rex Loops, start arranging them into some sort of song structure (Verse/Chorus). At this point, you can add a Redrum if you want to.
  12. Save this as: (your name)_FindNotes and turn it in to Mr. Runde.

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