DigitalJunkiie

Tip 002 – Creating a Bass line for a house style track
This tip is going to provide some insight on creating a bass line in a house style track (intro)
-Start a new session in Ableton, once loaded you go to your live devices folder which is the second icon below the play icon on the far left hand on the screen.
-Once you are in live devices browser, load up a drum rack from the Instruments folder. Load up your slots in the drum rack with a simple one shot of hi hat and kick drums, maybe a snare in there.
-In session view (the session view looks like columns with clips in the columns) in an empty cell thats in the drum rack column double click on the empty cell to start a new piano arrangement note input. You should see the one shots or samples you loaded up on the drum rack to the left hand side of the piano arrangement where the notes for the black and white keys should be will be your one shot/ sample names.
-By default the Piano arrangement view would be looping 1 bar, to increase to 4 bars, right next to the piano view you should see a box that says “Notes” bottom of that box, should be something that says “Length” and it should say 1 in the first box and 0,0 in the respective boxes after. that means that its looping 1 bar, change the 1 to a 4, and you now have a
4 bar loop.
– Kicks are usually on beat 1, and 1.3, 2,2.3,3,3.3 etc snares are on beat 1.2,1.4,2.2,2.4 etc and you can visually see how a simple drum pattern for an intro of a house style track can be easily assembled. Play around with it and see what you can come up with!
Let me know if anyone needs more clear instructions on how to create a bass line in ableton. Cheers Digital Junkie

sorry I have not been able to keep updating this been busy with school. Continuing where we left off I have two lessons to update up upon.

lesson 3: topics that were covered
-the purpose of return tracks
-practical use of return tracks
-automation in session and arrangement view
– focused on a track in this form
– 16 bar Intro – 16 bar Main – 16 bar Breakdown – 16 bar Main – 16 bar Intro

lesson 4: Topics that were covered
-Operator and touched based on impluse
– wave forms
– sin, triangle, square, sawtooth
-operator interface review
-synthesis 101 learnt the basic fundamentals on how any synthesizer works.

Ill be updating them weekly from now on. Remember the topics I cover if it’s not listed on here, ask it and ill do my best to help !

http://soundcloud.com/tmusick-1/hardrock-sofa-vs-zedd
this is the finished version first mashup still a little raw let me know what you think!