Extracting Melodies and Grooves - Creating Tracks
This quick video tutorial shares some ways that you can extract melodies and grooves from your favorite music!
If you've ever wondered how you can analyze a song to the extend that you could know the melodic arrangement and the drum groove, to learn from or implement in your own music, these workflows may be a great addition for you! Modern DAWs have all the tools necessary to dissect, deconstruct and analyze all sorts of sounds in different ways. These ideas are easy ways for you to get the information you need from the music that influences you. Extracting the melodies and grooves of other artists' music is a great way to accelerate your learning and understanding, as well as bolster your own productions.
Sometimes it's about understand what kind of progressions work best in a certain type of music. Or, perhaps you excel in all aspects of your music-making processing except programming really great beats. Whatever the reason, knowing how to go about extracting melodies and grooves is a good skill to have in general these days. If nothing else, it provides you with a deeper understanding of how the various tools involved work and how your DAW handles certain types of tasks.
Extracting melodies and grooves can also be a great way to reimagine samples and loops. Once you've successfully followed along with this lesson, try applying some of the things you learned to some audio files in your DAW. These factory library files are perfect to learn with. The more times you do this, the more ideas you will have. And the more ideas you have, the more innovative and creative you will be!
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OhmLab