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A METHOD OF BUILDING A SONG. PART 1 (to quote julie andrews in sound of music.... "lets start at the very beginning a very good place to start") heres a few ideas. phases of a song. 1. lets say song is called nuttyrok. create a new win folder called nuttyrok. this is where everything bout the song goes. 2. open up bb. immediately save as song name eg NROK. in nuttyrok folder after setting up tempo/key etc . just in case. 3. select a simple style. load it in and enter all song chords. i dont worry bout fancy at this point. just whack in the chords. select style with just a drum beat and say a piano. eg like a rehearsal. save as that NROK in nuttyrok folder. 4. now heres a little trick. close up bb. exit. in nuttyrok folder right clik over NROK. and copy file so now in nuttyrok folder you have a NROK copy plus original NROK. with copy right clik over it and RENAME TO STYLESTESTNROK. so now you have 2 bb files in nuttyrok folder. NROK AND STYLESTESTNROK. the latter will be used to run through loads of styles in stylepicker and see which fit best. (a trick when saveing is to incorporate key + tempo in name. so if NROK is in F sharp and tempo is 123 then could name it NROKFS123.) might be a good idea at this point to save NROK FOLDER to back up just in case. 5. now clik on STYLESTESTNROK and bb will open up. and all chords entered will appear. now open stylepicker. DO YOU NOTICE IN PICKER PLAY USEING CHORDSHEET ? now hilite a style but change tempo to the NROK TEMPO you set originally. and PLAY. and style will play with YOUR CHORDS. heres another tip. IF YOU LIKE IT SAVE IT. but what do you save it as ? you could save as NROKLIKE01 followed by RT id's if you wish. rinse and repeat going through all the styles. saveing your likes in NROK folder. as your going through the styles make notes in a notebook of styles you like and instruments/RT's/midis/RD's etc etc and settings you like. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ok now for an intermission. i typically go through all styles plus or minus 50 bpm from my base bpm. so if my song is 140 bpm lets say i might go down to styles that are recommended around 90 bpm and up to 190 bpm just so i dont miss any neat vignettes/sound colours. but i can hear people say wait a minute you might get artifacts. yes i know. the idea is to get ideas at this point. plus there are crafty ways to use artifacts. (via re dsp //plug ins and other tricks). now i can hear people also say BUT BUT BUT your gonna end up with lots of bb likes files in that NROK folder. YUP ! THATS THE IDEA. SONGS ARE WORK IS MY REPLY . LOTS OF WORK. GOTTA FIND THOSE NUGGETS ! i'll typically spend on a new song a few days going through styles/instruments etc. this way i dont miss the "nuggets". anyway the bb files are very small in size. thus in conclusion after haveing gone through all the styles (ok if you dont want the hassle just the styles for your genre for your song. but beware you might miss a nugget from another genre.) do frequent back ups.
more next time.
best need my breakfast oldmuso. sorry the post wasnt text fancy. i'm limited on time. pps good stuff charlie.
Last edited by justanoldmuso; 06/06/21 02:04 AM.
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