Podcast Questions

Podcast due 4/30


who are you going interview?



whose music are you going to use?





whose going to conduct the interview?





what music are you going to play?

Putting Your Beat Into Song Format

Today we are going to start putting our beats into song format.

1. Open Reason.
2. Choose one of the beats that we have made recently to put into song format.
   
3. Make sure you have all your parts Copied To Track.
4. Highlight all your parts.
5. Go to the Edit Window, Select Copy.
6. Go to the Edit Window, Select Paste.
7. Move the Right Loop Point to 33.
8. Paste your parts until you get to the Right Loop Point.
9. Save your beat.
10. Focus on the Intro from 1-9. The best intros make the listener want to hear more, the worst make the listener skip to the next song. The intro usually drops one of the parts from the beat. If you drop the drums or the bass line, it can cause some tension, and bring the listener in.
11. Delete a part such as the drums or bass line to "Introduce" your beat.
12. Now we can work on the Verse.
13. Remember, from last week, the verse is the part of the song that tells the story and is different every time.
14. We want to create space for a vocalist in our verse.
15. From 17-33, delete the melody from your song.
16. Now, we have 3 sections. The Intro from 1-9, the Chorus from 9-17, and the Verse from 17-33.
17. Highlight all the parts between 9-33.
18. In the Edit window, select Copy.
19. In the Edit window, select Paste two times.
20. Now Highlight all the parts between 9-17.
21. In the Edit window, select Copy.
22. Move your cursor to 81.
23. In the Edit window, select Paste twice.
24. From 89-97 Create an Outro by deleting all the parts except for your melody.
25. Save your beat!

Let's Make A New Beat!

We have uploaded our first beat onto our imeem accounts so let's make a new beat to turn into a song. Follow the steps below to help you get creative!

1. Open Reason.
2. Create an M-Class Mastering Suite Combi
3. Create a Mixer 14:2
4. Create a Dr. Rex.
5. Load a sound from either the Dr. Rex Instrument Loops or the Music Loops.
6. Click To Track.
7. Set your tempo to go with the Dr. Rex Loop.
8. Create a Redrum.
9. Make a 32 step drum pattern with...
10. A clap, snap, or snare drum on 5 and 13
11. A Bass Drum on 1 and a few other boxes
12. At least two other sounds from the High Hat folder, Percussion Hi, Percussion Other, FX, or Glitch.
13. Copy the Pattern to Track.
14. Create one of the Soft Synth Instruments .
15. Make a melody with the soft synth that goes with the Dr. Rex Loop. Make the melody.
16. Add another part using a Soft Synth.
17. Save your beat as Wednesday Rocks!

Exporting Your Song And Publishing To Your Blog

Today we are going to continue working on putting our beat into song format. If you have finished your song then follow the steps below to publish it. If you still need to work on the song. Find the step you were on last week and continue from there.

1. Listen to your remix. Is it finished? If so, continue with the steps below. If not open the lesson from last week and continue from where you left off.
   
2. Open your the song you were working on Friday, go to the File menu and select Export Song as Audio File, this converts the song into a file that can be played on Windows Media or a CD.
3. Name Your Song and Click Save.
   
4. Click Export.
5. Use the mp3 converting program on your computer to turn your wav file into an mp3.
6. Go to imeem.com and log into your account.
   
7. Go to your imeem.com homepage.
8. Click Upload.
9. Select Upload Music and Put On My Profile.
10. Click Upload.
    
11. Browse the computer and find your song in mp3 format.
12. Click Start Upload.
13. After it has finished Uploading, go to embed and COPY the code to embed the song.
14. Log into your blog.
15. Create a New Post and PASTE the code into the post.
16. Write 4 sentences about the song.
17. Publish Post.

Wednesday Rocks!

1. Open Reason.
2. Create an M-Class Mastering Suite Combi
3. Create a Mixer 14:2
4. Create a Dr. Rex.
5. Load a sound from either the Dr. Rex Instrument Loops or the Music Loops.
6. Click To Track.
7. Set your tempo to go with the Dr. Rex Loop.
8. Create a Redrum.
9. Make a 32 step drum pattern with...
10. A clap, snap, or snare drum on 5 and 13
11. A Bass Drum on 1 and a few other boxes
12. At least two other sounds from the High Hat folder, Percussion Hi, Percussion Other, FX, or Glitch.
13. Copy the Pattern to Track.
14. Create one of the Soft Synth Instruments .
15. Make a melody with the soft synth that goes with the Dr. Rex Loop. Make the melody.
16. Add another part using a Soft Synth.
17. Save your beat as Wednesday Rocks!

Makin' Beats

Today, you will be asked to create a couple parts using notes from the C minor scale that go with a drum beat.

1. Open Reason
2. Make sure you have a Mixer 14:2
3. Set Tempo between 70-110 bpm
   
4. Create a Redrum and make a 32 step drum pattern using a Clap or Snap, Bass Drum, Hi Hat, and Percussion. Make sure you put the sounds on appropriate boxes!
5. On the Redrum, Copy Pattern To Track.
6. Now Create Combinator: choose any instrument in the Combinator folder.
7. Create a melody using notes from the C minor scale. Use between 3 and 5 different notes.
8. When you have finished making your melody, quantize it.
   
9. Create a Dr. Rex. Load a Percussion Loop and put it "To Track."
10. Try adding some more parts using other Soft Synths (Subtractor, Malstrom, NN19, NNXT)
11. Let me hear what you got!

Bass Lines

We've been working on making melodies. Today we are going to start making bass lines.

To demonstrate this technique we are going to remake the bass line from Too Short's single "Blow the Whistle" then recreate the drum beat. Too Short- Blow The Whistle (instrumental) uploaded by beanycastillo

1. Open Reason
2. Make sure you have a Mixer 14:2
3. Set Tempo at 100 bpm
4. Create a Subtractor
5. On The Subtractor, click on the folder in the upper left hand corner.
6. Go to Reason Factory Sound Bank: Subtractor Patches: Bass: Dodger Bass.zyp
7. Now let's add the Bass line from Blow the Whistle, which is in C minor!
8. Move your Right Loop Point to R3
9. I'll show you how to play the bass line.
10. After you feel like you have the part under your fingers, record it and quantize it.
    
11. Create a Redrum.
12. Listen to the Instrumental of Blow the Whistle.
    
13. What sounds do they use?
14. What boxes do you think they go on?
15. Recreate the drum beat from Blow the Whistle.
16. Copy Pattern To Track.
17. Save as (Your Name) Blow the Whistle.