From the course: A Prolific Music Producer's Workflow for Finishing Tracks
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Making musical decisions that serve the song - Logic Pro Tutorial
From the course: A Prolific Music Producer's Workflow for Finishing Tracks
Making musical decisions that serve the song
- So I've taken the liberty of adding a couple of new parts to this track, because I wanted to create some nice variations, and I wanted to create some more nice variations, but I wanted to create also some rhythmic energy in it. So let's listen, I added this guy this is a cool reactor part [electronic sounds] And then I've also got this sort of flute part using a reactor instrument as well. [flute] Alright, there we go So, altogether now [electronic/flute music with beat] and here comes the reactor [additional electronic sounds added] So this is alright. This is working really well, but what I found is that even though I really liked these drum sounds that I used at the beginning [previous song] They may not really be cutting the mustard at this point. Because I've got some more high energy type things it's not quite as light of a track anymore we've got a little more energy happening with some of these rhythmic variations that we've created. So what I need to do is sort of dump some…
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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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