13 OPUS 3: Bass Riffs and Drum Beats
Assignment: Opus 3: Bass Riffs and Drum Beats – two contrasting styles
Create a midi piece that has two contrasting sections involving a bass line and drum beat (all at the same tempo)
- Track 1: Bass instrument: create a “bass riff” pattern using any of the MIDI FX that help you create something that you like! Suggest length is between 1 and 4 bars
- Track 2: using any drum kit (not drummer) create a drum beat that complements your bass riff – the two should line up as they are meant to be played at the same time. You may also use different lengths if you’d like (perhaps a drum ‘intro’ joined by the bass riff, or vice versa)
- Insert one or two ‘blank bars’ and repeat by creating a contrasting bass riff and drum beat
Your project will have 4 midi regions: (1) bass riff A (2) drum beat A (3) bass riff B (4) drum beat B
SUBMISSION: (1) Logic Pro project with description in the notepad
Opus 3 Objectives
- Using a MIDI-supporting DAW, create tracks (musical parts) that ‘fit’ together (musically and technically)
- Create using multiple MIDI regions
Tutorial for Opus 3
- Start a new project with initial track using a software instrumentÂ
- Change the initial instrument to some kind of bass instrument (your choice)
- Switch to inspector mode and add a MIDI FX – suggestions include Arpeggiator, Note Repeater, and Transposer
- Practice until you find a pattern and note combinations that you like – record your riff
- Edit as necessary
- Duplicate your bass track and use the inspector mode to add your MIDI FX (this way your FX on the first track won’t carry over to your new track)
- Record your second riff
- Finally, add a drum kit track to create a beat for each of your two riffs (You can probably use a single drum track for this…)
- Use the notepad feature to briefly describe the basis of your decisions
- Save the project!
Tutorial for Logic Pro