Category: Tutorials
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Voice Leading Example
This piece began with an impromptu vocal and keyboard performance, without a specific beat or drum. To find the tempo, I used the keyboard’s MIDI recording. Then, I created “bounce” copies, which muted the original tracks. Next, I transcribed the voice from audio to MIDI. This is quite a detailed process. After that, I soft…
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Voice Leading Example 2
This is an example of using your voice to improvise the basis of a song. This started out as an improvise on piano. As you can see, the improvise was NOT strict metronome, but was fairly even despite not having a click to follow. The lane “MODX” was the original recording, live MODX sound, then…
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MusicXML (Scales)
For educational purposes, Let’s create a MusicXML file that represents a D major scale (starting on D4 (near middle C), go up two octaves and then back down two octaves), put a “repeat” symbol at the end, and then use the lyrics from the “Star Spangled Banner” as insert capability for the <lyric> element. After…
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Recording Workflow
This is a short tutorial about my recording workflow. Hopefully it gives a feeling of how I try to go straight into recording with no distractions caused by the software or the hardware. Objective Media Steps Set File Name and Template a means Acoustic Guitar as the chord structure starting point v means voice and…