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ReCovery

ReCovery. With Ed “EditEd4TV” Bauman. Learn to Listen • Familiarize yourself with multiple genres • Close your eyes and envision the band as you listen for instrumentation, musicians, sounds • What do you hear? • Drums • Bass guitar • Acoustic guitar • Piano

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ReCovery

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  1. ReCovery With Ed “EditEd4TV” Bauman

  2. Learn to Listen • Familiarize yourself with multiple genres • Close your eyes and envision the band as you listen for instrumentation, musicians, sounds • What do you hear? • Drums • Bass guitar • Acoustic guitar • Piano • Narrow your sonic/mental focus onto a single instrument; color/timbre, ADSRs, effects, etc.

  3. Learn to Listen (cont.) • Identify the specific instrument(s) used • Piano – what kind of piano? • Acoustic upright • Acoustic grand • Wurlitzer • Rhodes • Yamaha CP-70 • Make a mental audio thumbprint • Go find/recreate that sound

  4. Learn to Listen (cont.) • Learn to listen for highs (percussive cymbals, shakers, crisp acoustic guitars, etc) • Learn to listen for lows (kick drums, bass guitars, low brass, synth bass, etc) • Be aware of overlaps • Guitar or piano / Hi-hat or shaker • Always listen in stereo • Better separation of possible conflicts • Over time, your ears and mind will learn to do this faster/easier/better. Be patient!

  5. Learn to Research • Search out other sections of the same song • Same patch or slightly modified • Search out other songs on the same album • Search out other albums by same artist • Search out other versions online (live, extended) • Easier to hear notes • Search out cover versions online (sometimes) • Search out other songs in same genre • Slow down speed and/or pitch if needed

  6. Learn to Play • Don’t worry about perfect pitch but do try to improve your relative pitch • Start simple; learn notes, then chords, then scales • Move on to intervals, and slash chords • www.musictheory.net • Over time, your ears and mind will learn to do this faster/easier/better. Be patient!

  7. Learn to Create/Build • Know your manual! • Know your devices! • Know your ReFills! • More isn’t always better • Reliable “limitations” vs. junky excess

  8. Learn to Create/Build (cont.) • Create a Combinator • Create a 14:2 mixer • Make the entire patch self-contained • no aux bus effects • Create a “structure” track • holds dummy clips for reference • Create a “reference” track • holds original recording for reference • Enter in rough notes for easy A/B

  9. Learn to Create/Build (cont.) • Reverse engineer the mental audio thumbprint of the specific instrument you identified: • Mentally strip-away effects: • reverb, delay, chorus, flange, phaser, distortion, pitch shift, filter (wah-wah), leslie, etc • Mentally strip-away filtering: • cutoff and resonance • ADSR envelope

  10. Learn to Create/Build (cont.) • Reverse engineer the mental audio thumbprint of the specific instrument you identified (cont.): • Mentally strip-away amplitude • ADSR envelope • Mentally strip-away modulation • Portamento • Mod wheel vibrato • ADSR envelope • pitch effects • oscillator parameters

  11. Learn to Create/Build (cont.) • Goal 1: dig down to the core of the patch: • The Raw Oscillator, might be: • Waveshape • Sample • Waveshapes: • Synth standards: saw, tri, sq./pulse • Synth advancement: AM, FM, wavetable • Samples: • Fairlight CMI • Stretching limits (D50) when RAM was $!

  12. Learn to Create/Build (cont.) • Goal 2: build up from the core of the patch: • Create the raw oscillator(s) • Create the filter ADSR envelope • Create the amplitude ADSR envelope • Create the modulation routing(s) • Add the effects • Multiple oscillators: • Sometimes it’s not just one Thor • Sometimes it’s a combo synth + sample

  13. Learn to Create/Build (cont.) • Understand that everything has variables: • What type of reverb? • What type of distortion? • What type of filter? • What type of sample? • Over time, your ears and mind will learn to do this faster/easier/better. Be patient! • Juggling

  14. Learn to Believe • Never let another person tell you that you can’t do something (never let yourself do this either) • Be patient: enjoy the incredible journey because there is no destination • Cut a new path, don’t always follow in the footsteps of others, innovation might require a whole new beginning • The better mousetrap

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