Learning Songwriting: Reason
2h 13mBeginner2015-05-29
Authors
Matt Piper
Author, Musician, Teacher at Los Angeles College of Music
Course details
Get your song ideas down before they disappear‚ with Reason. In this short course, musician Matt Piper demonstrates two types of workflows for writing, recording, and mixing a song: one to get your demo ideas recorded fast, and another to polish your songs for presentation to partners, publishers, and record labels. He starts from an empty Reason project, recording a scratch track and finding the best tempo for the new song idea. Then he creates a beat, lays down additional tracks, and adds effects. Next Matt shows techniques for editing the tracks and mixing the tracks using effects like EQ, compression, reverb and delay. Finally, he shows how to bounce down the track and share it with the world.
Skills covered
ReasonPropellerheadSongwritingAudio and MusicLearning
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - What you should know before watching this course
- 03 - Using the exercise files
1. Songwriting in Reason
- 04 - Starting from scratch in a new project
- 05 - Recording the first idea
- 06 - Choosing the right tempo
- 07 - Making a demo beat
- 08 - Creating an inspiring musical foundation to help develop your composition
- 09 - Recording a scratch vocal and labeling your song sections
- 10 - Recording a bass track
- 11 - Adding textural elements to the arrangement with guitar
- 12 - Adding textural elements to the arrangement with a virtual instrument
- 13 - Adding excitement and variety to your song with drum fills, additional percussion, and harmony vocals
- 14 - Creating a rough mix, part 1 - Vocal pitch correction and panning
- 15 - Creating a rough mix, part 2 - Mixing drums and guitars and crafting an ending
- 16 - Mastering, bouncing, and sharing the song
Conclusion
- 17 - Next steps