Hi,
I'd like to know if the anyone on the RM1x list would like to work on a song
together. It would be a great learning experience for us newbies. The song
could be added to by different people and they could explain how and what
they did in detail so others could learn. Even if its just a bunch of us
newbies, we'd learn from each other. Is anyone interested?
The reason I am asking is because I've had my RM1x about a year. It was my
first piece of gear, so I was pretty overwhelmed at first. I was trying to
learn how to program drum loops, create a bass line, add percussion, create
breaks, come up with a melody, etc. all on a blue box with terms I had never
heard of. :-) I read magazine after magazine, studied my favorite songs,
searched the internet for tutorials, rented videos on how to play keyboards,
and last bust not least I read the manual about 3 times. I took a break for
a few months, but now I've got that itch again - bad. I've been playing
with premade loops in Acid for a while, and I've had lots of fun and learned
quite a bit, but it's the RM1x (and my AN1x) that I really want to master.
I can come up with, what to me anyway, is a pretty good beat, percussion and
bass loop, but I don't really know where to go from there. I can figure out
how to lead into the song as well as a break. I guess my loop is more like
the first verse (16 measures) of the song. I am having troubles coming up
with the melody and counterpoints for a chorus that really pulls you into
the song or makes you want to throw your hands up. :-) Everything I've
tried just hasn't sounded right. I think part of my problem is not fully
understanding the "basics" of music. I understand notes, octaves, and the
like. I know what chords are, I even know a few, but that's about it. As
far as being able to tell what "key" part of the song is in...I'm clueless.
I think I want to take piano or keyboard lessons to get familiar with all of
this. Is this a good place to start though for someone that wants to make
house and trace? I've looked at all the presets loops in the RM1x that I
liked in Edit mode to see what relationship the bass had to the melody but I
don't think I'm getting it, but I have learned a lot from them. I mostly go
by my ear and what I feel, which in the end is how I'll judge anything I do.
If someone out there is willing to take a listen to this loop and either
suggest ways to progress with it, or some do's and don'ts about what I've
done, I'd appreciate it. Better yet, if others would like to collaborate
and make this a type of tutorial that could be archived and put on the web,
it could help out a lot of others like me. We don't even have to start with
this loop, we could come up with something together.
Files Anywhere only allows the following link to be accessed for 24hrs, so
if it is unavailable and you want the loop, just email me and I'll send it
to you.
http://www.filesanywhere.com/FAELINK/20000407/TMPEPIPHANY10.9403680.0273250.
546341/Loop1.r1p
Thanks,
Mike
