The Keyboard

The past 2 weeks we have been working with the keyboards using a Dr. Rex to change the melody of a Dr. Rex Loop. Some of you had an issue with hitting the keyboard and not hearing a sound. That was because of a certain thing on the keyboard called "Octave". Today we are going to make our own melodies using the Keyboard. Almost every "Octave" should play a sound when using a Combinator, NNXT, NN19, Subtractor, or Malstrom. Today, we will be making Redrum drum beats and using the Subtractor to add our own original melody. Lets get started! For a reference, here are pictures of the C Major scale & the C Minor scale.


C Major Scale = pink notes


C Minor Scale

The difference between the 2 scales are the 3rd, 6th and 7th notes.








I want you to make a 2 bar melody using between 3-5 notes with a Redrum drum beat.

1. Open Reason
2. Make sure you have a Mixer 14:2
3. Set Tempo between 70-110 bpm
   
4. Create a Redrum and make a 32 step drum pattern using a Clap or Snap, Bass Drum, Hi Hat, and Percussion. Make sure you put the sounds on appropriate boxes!
5. On the Redrum, Copy Pattern To Track.
6. Now Create a Subtractor: choose Mono Synths: And choose any sound in the Mono Synths folder.
   
7. Move the Right loop point to R3
   
8. Create a melody using notes from the C major scale. Use between 3 and 5 different notes
9. When you have finished making your melody, hit the quantize button and record it.
10. Create a Dr. Rex and load a Percussion Loop.
11. Don't copy it to track! Play the different slices using the keyboard. When you have something cool, record it.
12. When you finish recording the Percussion loop, don't forget to press the quantize button.
    
13. Save your beat as (YOUR NAME) 1108.