From the course: A Prolific Music Producer's Workflow for Finishing Tracks
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Working with simple variation: How much is too much? - Logic Pro Tutorial
From the course: A Prolific Music Producer's Workflow for Finishing Tracks
Working with simple variation: How much is too much?
- So now that I've got some basic ideas down, one thing that I like to do is create some variations. So for example, I've left a little space here for a drum fill, and that's something that I can work with. So if I just create a little loop here, I can just start to work with my drum fill. I'm going to turn on my metronome. I'm on percussion, I want drums. There that's good, that's actually kind of nice. (electronic music) Alright, so that's pretty good. I'm going to go ahead and actually quantize that. And I think that this sound will be good on eight notes. Alright so there's my fill, that's a nice variation there that's going to create a little bit of movement. We don't have to listen to the whole thing. (electronic music) And then maybe... This is what's fun about the glitch kit, is that you can really come up with some interesting things with sounds that you may not have used before. Alright, let's go ahead and mute this note. I actually wanted to mute this guy, not this guy…
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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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