Welcome to Week 2 of the One Song One Month Challenge! Hopefully you joined us last week as we started 2010 with a bang of creativity and productivity! The goal of this challenge is to get you moving in your studio right away, eliminate excuses to making music, and to set a realistic deadline to complete something. If you can produce a song in one month, you can complete an album in a year! Nice!
As a reminder here is how we are breaking down the five Fridays in January:
- Starting Your Song – Creating a session, setting tempo, initial recording
- Rhythm – Using loops and drum machines to fill out the track
- Virtual Instruments – Using MIDI tracks to enhance your arrangement
- Editing – Comping vocals and overall cleanup
- Mixing – Basic mix and bounce for the web
This week we are going to build on that original riff you recorded by adding some drum loops and taking a peek at using virtual drummers. I hope you’ll enjoy this video and get motivated to keep working on your song!
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[...] Rhythm – Using loops and drum machines to fill out the track [...]
[...] Week 2 – Using loops and drum machines to fill out the session. [...]
[...] Rhythm – Using loops and drum machines to fill out the track [...]
Graham, you cover drum loops in this video and thanks for that. Can you cover actual drum programming in the future? How do you go about it? Step input on your MIDI keyboard, recording in real-time then quantizing, etc? I know there are many ways to do it, just would like your take on the subject. Thanks!
Absolutely. I will be sure to cover that in a future video post. Thanks for the comment!