From the course: A Prolific Music Producer's Workflow for Finishing Tracks
Unlock the full course today
Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Planning structure and using markers and reference tracks - Logic Pro Tutorial
From the course: A Prolific Music Producer's Workflow for Finishing Tracks
Planning structure and using markers and reference tracks
- Okay so this next technique is something that I do quite a bit of but I don't always use and it's also something that you may want to do before you start to build the sections that we spoke about in the previous video. What I've done here is I've actually imported a track to use as a reference for structure. I do this all the time as a professional producer and songwriter. If someone says, "Hey, I need a pop song," then one of the things that I like to do is analyze the structure of pop songs that I like just to get a bearing. I bet you didn't realize that in a lot of Katy Perry songs the second verse is actually a few bars shorter than the first one. It's something really interesting that they do that I would never have caught if I didn't do a little bit of analysis. You may be saying, "But Evan, "why would I want to steal someone else's structure? "I'm an individual." Yes, you are and that's great. Your mother was right. But structure is the best and oldest thing to steal from…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Contents
-
-
-
-
Getting basic musical ideas down8m 47s
-
Working with simple variation: How much is too much?9m 12s
-
Learning to trust your production process4m 59s
-
Making musical decisions that serve the song7m 28s
-
Basic mix considerations while composing, and using channel strip presets in Logic10m 54s
-
Channel strip preset examples in Pro Tools2m 26s
-
Channel strip preset examples in Ableton Live2m 21s
-
Creating simple sections and structural considerations6m 24s
-
Planning structure and using markers and reference tracks13m 36s
-
Building a bridge or middle eight section11m 27s
-
A simple approach to creating intros and outros6m 44s
-
-
-