Thursday, March 12, 2009

3/12_finish C Minor stuff/2nd Inversions

It seems like most folks need time to finish up their 2 C Minor assignments, so I'm giving you today to finish them both up. Remember, I need for you to turn in 2 separate Reason files:
  1. your name_CMinorscale
  2. your name_CMinorbeat
Please make sure you turn them both in to the Dropoff folder by the end of the period.

Assignment #2 - C Minor scale
  1. Open a new Reason file.
  2. Create a Subtractor Analog Synthesizer.
  3. Load a sound from one of the four main categories (Bass, Monosynth, Pad, or Polysynth).
  4. Set the L marker on Bar 1 and the R marker on Bar 5.
  5. Turn on the Click (aka metronome) and set the tempo to something you can work with. Remember - the goal is to play one note on each click!
  6. Practice playing the C Minor scale up and down in time with the metronome: (C-D-Eb-F-G-Ab-Bb-C-C-Bb-Ab-G-F-Eb-D-C)
  7. When you've got it down, hit the Record button and record your performance.
  8. Fix any off notes by quantizing.
  9. Save the file to your folder as "(your name)_C Minor scale"
  10. Have one of the instructors check it and then turn it in to the Dropoff folder (Pickupdropoff>BAVAC>Dropoff>Period 5).
Assignment #3 - C Minor beat
  1. Start a new Reason file.
  2. Create a Redrum and make a 32-step beat.
  3. Put it into the Sequencer Window using Copy Pattern to Track.
  4. Now create a keyboard instrument (Subtractor/Malstrom/NN19/NNXT/Combinator) and load a patch into it. Please make it something where you can hear actual notes (not FX or Drums or Percussion).
  5. Using the C-Minor scale, find some notes that sound good with your beat. Record a melody over your drum beat. You can play the notes in any order, or any style that you want, but they have to ALL be from the C Minor scale.
  6. Add some more instruments and play some parts that go along with the first melody you just put down.
  7. Copy all your parts out so that they end on Bar 17.
  8. Save this as your name_CMinor beat.
  9. Turn it in to the Dropoff folder.

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