Choose a song that you love, and follow this checklist to help analyze and understand how the song works its magic. You will have so much information to guide you in your own music-making by the end. What is the time signature? Is the key major or minor? Is the groove laid back or...
Getting the rhythm of your bass right is vital to making your track work. Usingsyncopatednotes is a great way to bring some groove into your bass lines. MostDAW’shave a built-inswingfunction that helps you get that funky rhythm, but you can also manually do it by nudging some of the ...
Pick a song that you think wouldbenefitfrom a remix. You’re more likely to follow through with the remix if you like the original song. This is even more important if you’re making a bootleg and don’t have access to any stems;you need to pick a song that leaves room for work to...
You can use a groove as a theme and play a solo that is like a song (e.g. a verse groove plus a “chorus” or “hook”). That is part of my “La Do Da” solo: I use the floor tom shuffle groove as a theme or hook. I could use that theme and play that solo as a stan...
While belting out a catchy tune is excellent, gearing your song to have an underlying rhythm or ‘groove’ can have a lasting impact on the listener. Your rhythm section – consisting of instruments like drums, bass, guitar, or piano – forms the backbone of your song and can control how...
Bonus Tip: to add groove to all clips in the project, select a clip and press Cmd + A or Ctrl + A to select all clips in the arrangement, then select it from the dropdown on the left in the clip view. Tip 31: Scenes If you love to use the Session View for live performance or...
5. Watch for conflicts between loops and MIDI instruments Adding drums or bass from a VST plugin to a looped groove that needs a little extra punch is a classic technique for working with samples. But you have to be careful when adding percussive material or layered sounds with lots of low...
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practiceguitar scales, chords, chord progressions and even to get new song ideas over. One of the best guitar practice tips is to play a drum loop, drum app, or any backing groove and just jam along with it. Try weird times and meters when possible. Just get a feel for other genres ...
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