From the course: Remixing Techniques: Arranging and Song Form
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Working from the hype backwards
From the course: Remixing Techniques: Arranging and Song Form
Working from the hype backwards
The hype section of a club remix is designed to excite the crowd. Sometimes it is 8 bars, sometimes it is 16 bars, and generally it's a keyboard sound, some sort of a lead line or arpeggiated synth line in the higher register that has an exciting feel to it. I'll add a MIDI track, go back to Nexus, and in the Arpeggios category, I will choose Phantasmic Sequence. (music playing) I like that sound; that has a nice energy to it and the effects are great, the delays and the reverb. So I'll punch in at the chorus, and typically the hype, for me, is not always the chorus; sometimes it's the 8 bars after the chorus or it might be 8 bars into a long chorus, like in the case of this song. So let's just start the track at this double chorus here at measure 45, and I will play in a part where I feel it should come in. (music playing) We'll trim this so that it's a perfect 8-bar region, and I will turn it down a little bit, as well as renaming the track. I'll call it hype arp 1. Go back and take…
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Referencing the original or demo version of the song5m 7s
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Listening to stems and deciding on the musical direction3m 42s
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Time stretching stems and creating a sketch arrangement11m 18s
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Developing the drums and bass11m 10s
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Adding synths10m 30s
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Working from the hype backwards4m 27s
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Arranging the rest of the song5m 40s
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