Overview
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Arrange songs for radio play and club remixes using four different digital audio workstations: Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Logic, and Reason.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Why did we record this course in four different DAWs?
- Using the exercise files
- A general overview of musical arranging
- An overview of remix arranging
- An overview of radio and club arranging
- Referencing the original or demo version of the song
- Listening to stems and deciding on the musical direction
- Creating a sketch arrangement
- Developing the drums and bass
- Adding synths
- Adding guitars
- Arranging the rest of the song
- Referencing the original or demo version of the song
- Listening to stems and deciding on the musical direction
- Time stretching stems and creating a sketch arrangement
- Developing the drums and bass
- Adding synths
- Working from the hype backwards
- Arranging the rest of the song
- Trimming down the club version
- Identifying arrangement changes within the body of the song
- Listening through the final arrangement
- Adding a vocoder
- Adding filtered delays to vocals
- Adding drum fills
- Listening through the final radio mix
- Listening through the final club mix
- Listening through the final radio edit
- Final thoughts and next steps
