5/12_Live Drums/DayNNight

Basic
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: 1) playing live with the keyboard and 2) 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:

1. Open a new Reason session.
2. Create a Redrum and load a bass drum, snare/clap and a hi hat.
3. Zoom in on your track so you can see all the numbers of the bars.
4. Set a 4-bar loop (L on Bar 1, R on Bar 5).
5. Make sure the Click Track is on and hit play.
6. Listen to the tempo of the click and adjust it to however fast you want your beat to be.
7. Play some keys to make sure you can hear your drums. If you can't hear them, hit the Octave Down button once.
8. Find where your drum sounds are on the keyboard (probably the first 3 keys on the left side).
9. Find the bass and the snare/clap.
10. Practice playing a beat over the click and MAKE SURE YOU ARE PLAYING IN TIME WITH IT! Remember: Which drum sound goes on the 2nd and 4th beats? What about the 1st?
11. When you are ready, go ahead and record yourself.
12. Now go into the Edit View and check out the notes you just played.
13. Highlight them all and Quantize them (Edit>Quantize Notes).
14. 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.
15. Now let's put in some Hi Hats...click on the Pencil Tool and draw in some notes on the Hi Hat lane.
16. Go back out to the Arrange View and use the Pencil Tool to draw a region around the 4-bars you just played.
17. Copy this pattern to make the whole beat play for 16 bars (end on Bar 17) - you might want to zoom out so you can see them.
18. Now let's make a 2nd beat for the Chorus section. You can use either a 2nd pattern or make another Redrum if you want to. Put this new beat in your
    
19. Save this beat to your folder as "(your name)_Live Drums".

We will be working with this Thursday, so make sure you have it saved before you leave today!

Advanced

Finish the remake part of your Day N Night beats today - try to focus on getting the chorus melody done today.

If you finish the remake part (Intro, Verse 1, Chorus 1), then go ahead and add your own section to the beat. Add at least

• A 2nd Verse
• A 2nd Chorus

You can do this any way you want - either add your own parts to the original beat, or come up with a completely new one.

Save this as your name_DayNNight and turn it in.