You can mute everything else in BB or do as I do.... use volume envelopes in the DAW....
I use this quite often. In my latest song.... Tropical Sky, I used this along with copy and paste to get the light intro that builds.... volume envelopes absolutely rock.
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.com Add nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both.
The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
[The chord locations in the above examples assume each Chord is placed on the first beat and the lines delineate between bars irrelevant to the BIAB 4 beat grid for demonstration purposes of the chord programming.]
There are several other ways to achieve the same results. This is one way of many.
You can mute everything else in BB or do as I do.... use volume envelopes in the DAW....
I use this quite often. In my latest song.... Tropical Sky, I used this along with copy and paste to get the light intro that builds.... volume envelopes absolutely rock.
Thank you. I'll make a mental note of this but my DAW experience is so limited I don't know what a volume envelope is. (But I will learn!)
"If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often." Leonard Cohen
You can mute everything else in BB or do as I do.... use volume envelopes in the DAW....
I use this quite often. In my latest song.... Tropical Sky, I used this along with copy and paste to get the light intro that builds.... volume envelopes absolutely rock.
Thank you. I'll make a mental note of this but my DAW experience is so limited I don't know what a volume envelope is. (But I will learn!)
Envelopes.... volume or panning as well as other things... are essentially automated control over a specific parameter in the track.
You can automate or envelope almost anything you want. I generally use the volume and panning envelopes. With more than a few tracks in a project, adjusting volume and panning on individual tracks manually is an impossible task. Envelopes get the job done.
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.com Add nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both.
The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
Another option is to use the count-in as a drum intro. 1-click on preferences/options 2-count-in/met 3-allow lead in bars 4-select lead in type
Thank you! I think I can follow that. Although I've had BIAB for a few years now, it was mainly a practice tool for playing along to jazz standards and basic blues. Now I want to use it to record my own songs, so I have to build from the ground up! It's a learning experience but the sounds I hear other people get are so good that I want to have them to and I'll get the hang of it, however long it takes.
"If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often." Leonard Cohen
You can mute everything else in BB or do as I do.... use volume envelopes in the DAW....
I use this quite often. In my latest song.... Tropical Sky, I used this along with copy and paste to get the light intro that builds.... volume envelopes absolutely rock.
Thank you. I'll make a mental note of this but my DAW experience is so limited I don't know what a volume envelope is. (But I will learn!)
Envelopes.... volume or panning as well as other things... are essentially automated control over a specific parameter in the track.
You can automate or envelope almost anything you want. I generally use the volume and panning envelopes. With more than a few tracks in a project, adjusting volume and panning on individual tracks manually is an impossible task. Envelopes get the job done.
That sounds super useful. I'm sure I'll be using those "just as soon as I'm able" ("Rocky Raccoon")
"If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often." Leonard Cohen
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