How to make an EP in a day | Reason 12 tutorial feat. Sharpson
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2024
- Irish Producer and DJ; Sharpson, breaks down how he wrote and produced an entire EP for his new Lo-Fi Trance Project in one day. The London based producer goes through his 3 techniques of how to establish multiple musical ideas and develop them in under 30 minutes, curing writer's block and using quick hacks to get basic ideas down.
Learn more about Reason:
www.reasonstudios.com/
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:18 Getting signed and dropped by a label
01:52 3 Techniques to get a quick workflow
04:00 Tip 1: Using Combinator Patches
10:18 Tip 2: Tower + Pyramid
11:26 Tip 3: Blocks and Arrangement
23:06 Finishing up your tracks
23:23 Conclusion
Follow Sharpson:
linktr.ee/sharpsonmusic
Follow Boy Racer: linktr.ee/boyracer
Listen to the Boy Racer EP: tr.ee/mTiP0DSAyr - เพลง
Big love Reason crew for having me! Hope you dig the Boy Racer tunes 🏁
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I’m about to start dipping my toes in and you helped make it feel so approachable, appreciate you taking the time to make this.
How is the F8 with reason?
How does one get that boy racer VST though?
This has to be the best Reason related video I've seen in many years. I want more of these "Reason as a DAW" videos. This is the kind of stuff that inspires us Reason users to make more music. Well done Sharpson and Reason Studios on this one.
Blocks are really useful and not promoted enough by RS. Vids I see using Blocks are typically like this vid. Just used to colour code an arrangement when there is so much more using blocks can bring. I use blocks with the addition of extra note lanes per instrument so I can toggle on/off note lanes when I want to. This way, you don’t need extra blocks for variation. I also use blocks to hold different chord progressions to try different arrangements and progressions.
Time constraints are so beneficial for my production.
Wow the Irish know how to communicate 👍 : )
It is very nice to (finally) hear someone who speaks and presents well. I am not really into what he suggests, BUT there is a logic to it and seeing his pre-made sounds are suited to his intended results (and not RND hopefulness) it is working well for the formulaics that define EDMyness. Giving himself an Arrangement and therefore Targets has a fair sense. Musicians use targets (or "set pieces" like furniture in a room) to help make their pieces work all the time. IF personal parts are added around these set pieces, the bones can become something ok - assuming of course he is not correct about Spotifry (non)listeners not wanting to hear creativity (or is that humanity). "Keep it quick, Keep it going" is very good advice as many DOA from overworking rather than focusing on the target and moving forward.
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This is amazing and one I will watch again and again as a reminder to keep it simple. Now, to go build my combinators 💪
Big up Sharpson, legend. Never knew he used Reason too, what a guy! Great tips, gonna start making and saving combinator patches now.
Even though this is not the type of music I make I found some good workflow tips here. Developing a workflow that enables creating of a complete song quickly is something I' ve struggled with. Blocks and Tower + Pyramid are techinics I'm going to employ on my next song idea.
I've designed a gargantuan amount of combinators and can't recall reusing any of them haha. Great workflow and ideas.
I still find myself frequently going back to old Combinators I created in Reason 6.5 in my Ableton Live workflow, totally agree with his point about having many Combinators at the ready. Great video.
Most useful workflow I've seen mate sweet X
Thank you for saving our ears at the 32s :D
thnx for video/ please upload more content like this
It's really cool!!! Cheers!!! 🤟🤟🔥🔥🔥
Unlocked comments? What's happened? Are we close to R13 announcement & you're confident it's going to go well? :)
What are you talking about? If there was a 13 ready they would be talking about it on there update blog.
@@HOLLASOUNDS "their"
@@Artek604 Dyslexia strikes again.
When you do "the 32's" on the A-8 kick pattern the sounds disappear in the video 🤔
@6:11
Excellent info. My workflow definitely needs improving.
What monitors are that?
Hello! I have a music education background. I am interested in music production. Should I go back to school for this? Are there any books I could buy for self study on music production or Reasons as a DAW?
just get a DAW (recommend Reason) and watch some TH-cam too.
How did you get boy racer? I have never seen that in Reason
Fantastic info
Fantastic video love it
The idea of all this Ctrl+D without any song planning makes me recoil but I guess if the overall message is to take advantage of Combinators to save time or to get something on the canvas then cool. Another trick which saves even more time if you're going in this direction then you want to build out the elements of the song within each pattern of the Block View in bite-sized pieces especially with drums. That way later on during Song View instead of Ctrl+D or drag 'n drop the individual clips you can draw those small blocks or patterns up top with the pencil and it automatically repeats as many times as long or as short as you need it whether it's one instrument or 20 instruments. Then if you want to add variety for particular parts of the song in Song View then what you record on top in Song View will override what's underneath just for that 1 part of the song. The patterns underneath in Block View still remain untouched if you change your mind on that variation or decide to delete what's on top later. 😃
Blocks are really useful and not promoted enough by RS. Vids I see using Blocks are typically like this vid. Just used to colour code an arrangement when there is so much more using blocks can bring. I use blocks with the addition of extra note lanes per instrument so I can toggle on/off note lanes when I want to. This way, you don’t need extra blocks for variation. I also use blocks to hold different chord progressions to try different arrangements and progressions.
@@rjbush7955 Dude you're brilliant because I never thought about combining the two concepts into blocks like that and I keep forgetting about note lanes! It's one of those things where I'll use it for a month and then forget about it for a year or two after that. But yeah I totally agree that using blocks just as a label or place holder is such wasted potential. While I appreciate this channel and the different personalities that produce content for it, as someone who's more seasoned with Reason you gotta bring that heat beyond surface level. I want unorthodoxy, to see new mixing techniques, new ways of using grooves and definitely a lot more on block mode. It doesn't have to be all the time because beginners definitely need love and encouragement but bring on the advanced stuff please! 😎
How about a different artist who isn't doing tunes for the club? A singer songwriter, perhaps?
Hey! I'm used to watching you eat snacks! Not talk about Reason workflows!
Get back to work!
Edit: OH GOD THERE'S TWO OF YOU
But why blocks for this? Is this not just a simple build up like in a linear sequencer?
After years of ignore bloxxs now i understand the fun of using IT. Thanks for the Video!
ya'll can have your discussions about artsy fartsies while I'll be dancin to these tunes in a parking lot somewhere..
Just tell ChatGPT to give you the Reason keyboard commands for a 16 bar trance loop.
Yes, it's Magenta.
He doesn't need to know. Not knowing hurts nobody. It's. Magenta.
love gardening. just digging my fingers into the beautiful magenta soil
and he called orange as if it were red lol to me it seems like a question of color blindness, I think these are the colors that people like that tend to confuse
The days where artists and producers took time to craft the perfect music and sound is over and it is aa case of quantity over quality. The music sounds good but not necessarily memorable because those true classic masterpieces of records often took years to craft and can never been replicated in the space of a few hours.
I can get more relief taking a dump than creating music with this kind of workflow. Might as well just use loops!
@@BK-iw1zm And many hit records do just use loops these days. There was a producer who made a hit record from using a mostly unedited sample pack demo lol, thats how bad things are now.
Thing is you don’t have stop there, at least you have something to work with instead of being paralyzed with an empty sequencer and no place to start. Rough drafts are all about belting out an idea as fast as possible, they’re not even at the demo level yet. You can obsess over it later. Get the idea out first.
@@GVCarroll71Yeah, I get that. But, the title of the video is creating an EP in a day. That's not an EP. What he's making is just a bunch of rough sketches, not even considered to be a demo.
@@GVCarroll71 I am aware what is shown is drafts or ideas however they way He speaks He is making it sound like these are finished ideas and aall that He will do next is a little editing. I have no problem comming up with ideas and or sketches but I don't use aa system to do it, and the only time My music sounds similar to something else I made is because I used a previous project as a template. I have used the same drums or midi or other elements cut straight out of previous productions, as I have saved everything over the year and basically now have an entire sound and midi library made by Me. I also use the same samples made by other people in multiple production's.
Wait a minute....Isn't this the guy always getting smashed on the Try Channel??? lol
You're damn right 😎
I prefer real musicians and artists never in a hurry to constantly release crappy and soon forgotten tracks like.
I have an even better workflow tip! You just make one track and then you copy it twelve times. Using this technique you can make a whole album in a day!
EP in a day sounds like an EP in a day. High-quality music takes months.
I think it's possible to make an ep in a day and then spending the next couple months to then flesh out the songs, add ear candy and make the songs sound consistent
I have to disagree with you on that. High-quality music doesn’t take months especially with a template such as this with high quality sounds.
Then he made an EP in 23 minutes, he had plenty of space to make several additions in the other 23 hours of the day. I don't make music like that, because I make it as a hobby and I try to reach higher feelings, doing a lot of polishing, but if my goal was the market, Spotify and things like that, I would make 1 EP a day too. 5 thousand songs are uploaded on platforms per day, and by the next two years musical AI should be close to perfection, think about the result of this...
Tip #1 is don't use Reason
@tymantis why did you say that?
Tip #1 is don't use Reason
This dude is constipated :P
Reason is sick
Literally butchering it to porridge, selling pure shit with 110% confidence based on nothing at all. And kids actually believe one'd win with that utter crap. hope he's been paid well for the free marketing. Maximum profile neurosis on the rise. RS laughing off their bloody arse - other companies have to heavily invest into marketing.
@broklanders4730 - yes indeed...its actually painful to watch or listen to this braindead,nonsense rhetoric.. any IQ drops a few % digesting it. =garbage in,garbage out...in todays world THATiS what itIs all about. LOL. help!
He dont make stuff from scratch He use templates.
@@bristyla See My other comment response, the algorithm on Spotify and TH-cam are what govern success, individual creativity is not promoted by theses algorithms and there for 1 these people dont bother with uploading there music to these services, 2 they stay mostly underground and while they might have a small loyal following they make little money and are not remembered in history.
@@bristyla Right but without money in this world your gona be without food and a home, working a dead end low payed job and or claiming welfare unemployed. You can talk all the spiritual truth you like but unless you live with nothing, like a munk you will 100% fail in this life. Spiritualism is very unlikely to stop your physical body getting old dieing.
That is some serious clickbait bullshit