Remixing Techniques: Arranging and Song Form
Overview
Arrange songs for radio play and club remixes using four different digital audio workstations: Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Logic, and Reason.
In this course, author Josh Harris shows how to create radio and club arrangements, and a radio edit of a club mix. He utilizes four different digital audio workstations (DAWs)—Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Logic, and Reason—and shows how to build different arrangements from the ground up, by adding guitars, drums, bass, and synths. Each DAW explores different types of arranging scenarios. Plus, learn how to add ear candy and take your arrangements to another level.
In this course, author Josh Harris shows how to create radio and club arrangements, and a radio edit of a club mix. He utilizes four different digital audio workstations (DAWs)—Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Logic, and Reason—and shows how to build different arrangements from the ground up, by adding guitars, drums, bass, and synths. Each DAW explores different types of arranging scenarios. Plus, learn how to add ear candy and take your arrangements to another level.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Why did we record this course in four different DAWs?
- Using the exercise files
- A general overview of musical arranging
- An overview of remix arranging
- An overview of radio and club arranging
- Referencing the original or demo version of the song
- Listening to stems and deciding on the musical direction
- Creating a sketch arrangement
- Developing the drums and bass
- Adding synths
- Adding guitars
- Arranging the rest of the song
- Referencing the original or demo version of the song
- Listening to stems and deciding on the musical direction
- Time stretching stems and creating a sketch arrangement
- Developing the drums and bass
- Adding synths
- Working from the hype backwards
- Arranging the rest of the song
- Trimming down the club version
- Identifying arrangement changes within the body of the song
- Listening through the final arrangement
- Adding a vocoder
- Adding filtered delays to vocals
- Adding drum fills
- Listening through the final radio mix
- Listening through the final club mix
- Listening through the final radio edit
- Final thoughts and next steps
Taught by
Josh Harris
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