Arranging the Song Structure and Developing Your Idea | Indie Rock Production in Cubase

In the second instalment of Stevie B’s indie rock production in Cubase tutorials, he walks you through arranging the song and developing the initial ideas further to make the instrumentation really take shape. If you’re stuck in the ‘loop zone’, these videos will help you turn your ideas into full songs.
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[@pp90djask2idjk]

Best educator from Steinberg after 2008.

[@Steven_Beddall]

🙏 ❤

[@bestkoreanjesus]

been looking forwards to this one. THank you

[@TonyThomas10000]

Great work as usual!!!!!!!

[@andrewsun4385]

Awesome!!!❤❤💯💯

[@dadadrew]

Thanks!

[@Sound-Lord]

thanks 👍

[@DaveDickens]

Some interesting techniques, I was wondering why you weren’t using the arranger track but I see the logic of using the marker track instead. A well presented video, obviously every song writer has a slightly different approach but I tend to end up working this way. Cheers Dave

[@Steven_Beddall]

Cheers Dave! Yeah you could definitely use the arranger track as well, both work!

[@DileepaMangala]

Super cool ❤
Love from Sri Lanka ❤

[@ErixSamson]

very interesting

[@jackc8120]

How did you highlight the events so fast at the beginning?

[@jackc8120]

What do you usually plan for verse and chorus? 16 bars?

[@ckdotdotdot]

Great video! Do you have any advice on licensing/selling this type of music to publishers/library music marketplaces? Is there any websites or particular publishers you would recommend? Thank you!

[@antoinebunel]

It is illegal to mention a "Purple Child" preset without giving great praise to Deep Purple for their epic song Child in Time !
Half joking of course but everyone should hear this song at least once, real music with strong vibes.

[@johntlmusic]

Hello, is there anything changed for F2 (Transport Panel for Cubase Pro)? Because I can't use anymore.

[@R1PPA-C]

This is off topic ..but if I don't ask now I'll forget to ask later or look it up..
So..Do you know how to set the full length of the mixer channels the given track colour?
I'm sure I've seen it on someone's setup and I'm noticing on cubase 13 that I'm getting lost on my mixer page a lot easier with projects that have a large number of channels,
the colour bar is just too small once I've minimised the channels to their super skinny setting.

[@MarcoPolux]

Very cool video, to show your process and the way you quickly use Cubase is great. How do you change zoom views so fast? (I mean, I know I can make a shortcut for almost anything **almost**, but even then, it looks like you just jump into the exact view you need. How?? THAT would be a GREAT video too)

[@Steven_Beddall]

I use the Zoom to selection shortcut often but I think what you’re looking at here is video editing, it’s a lot of information so I had to keep the editing pretty tight. It feels seamless but there’s lots of cuts to keep it moving along swiftly.

[@ErixSamson]

Which Groove Agent kit did you use?

[@royteicher]

“Deep into the ground”

[@TOMIVALEN]

super welche drum set is das in Groove agent?

[@royteicher]

“Deep into the ground”

[@thebishoprules]

PLEASE HELP! I cant find any information on this. I have cubase open and can even change settings but can hear NO DIFFERENCE IN SOUND no matter WHAT setting i choose

[@thebishoprules]

i bought all this stuff to record my guitar and im really starting to regret it maybe im too stupid to play music online

[@timbeneton8068]

Sorry but your steps are not structured and not enough explanation on the functions themself

[@vid4ia583]

Sorry but this is a misrepresentation of song structure/development trying to mix and match lego blocks of unconnected audio segments in such a way with random edits. This is NOT how songs or music is created - not even close.

[@g.o.9513]

What video demonstrates a better path forward?

[@nomadptgalexandrecarvalho2133]

theres no right way or rules
of creating music,go to school my friend.

[@Luke08Sadler]

But he is literally creating a song this way

[@Steven_Beddall]

I beg to differ, I make a living writing music this way 😊 Trust me, there’s no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ when it comes to writing music.

[@g.o.9513]

@vid4ia583 this subtle impression is profound to me. I hope that studying drum structures in midi will serve as useful. Open to suggestions. Thank You.