From the course: A Prolific Music Producer's Workflow for Finishing Tracks
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Creating simple sections and structural considerations - Logic Pro Tutorial
From the course: A Prolific Music Producer's Workflow for Finishing Tracks
Creating simple sections and structural considerations
- Now that I've got a handful of musical ideas in here that are working well together, it's time to start thinking about structure. One of the things that I'm a huge fan of when composing music is getting out of loop mode as quickly as possible. And that means beginning to work with structural considerations. OK, so we have some simple variations here, and what I'm going to do is actually just start to move these around. I'm not going to worry so much about an intro or an outro, but I'm going to start to think about doing things in a way where the energy flows kind of nicely. So let's go ahead and we'll start out with just this drum part. (plays drum track) Maybe what I'll do is actually just start out with this guy. This is cool. (plays synth string track) A little Rhodes in there. (plays more tracks) And I'm going to go in here and I'm actually going to get rid of my... many of my snares, so let's go ahead and get rid of those guys, we'll get rid of these, because we have that fill…
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Getting basic musical ideas down8m 47s
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Working with simple variation: How much is too much?9m 12s
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Learning to trust your production process4m 59s
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Making musical decisions that serve the song7m 28s
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Basic mix considerations while composing, and using channel strip presets in Logic10m 54s
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Channel strip preset examples in Pro Tools2m 26s
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Channel strip preset examples in Ableton Live2m 21s
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Creating simple sections and structural considerations6m 24s
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Planning structure and using markers and reference tracks13m 36s
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Building a bridge or middle eight section11m 27s
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A simple approach to creating intros and outros6m 44s
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