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- Starting a New Song (part of the Guide to Using JUMP)
- Adding a Rhythm Guitar Accompaniment
- Funking up the Bass
- Going from A to AB
- Adding an Ending
Also see the Guide to Using JUMP, FAQ and Tips.
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Adding a Rhythm Guitar Accompaniment
The following steps demonstrate one way to add another track to your composition.
This assumes that you have just worked through the Starting a New Song tutorial (and so have already composed a simple Section A) and that Track 5 is currently not used.
1. Add an acoustic guitar track...
- Display the Mix Page by clicking on the "Mix" Page Selection Tab.
- Locate the row for Track 5 - labelled Chordal 2.
- Click on the track's Mute button to un-mute the track.
- Click on the track's Patch control and select Guitar, then Acoustic Guitar (nylon) using the pop-up menus.
2. Add an strumming guitar accompaniment to section A...
- Display Section A by clicking on the "A" Page Selection Tab.
- Locate the row for Track 5 - labelled Chordal 2.
- Click on the track's Menu button and select Edit Motif 1... from the pop-up menu.
- A Chordal Motif Editor for "Motif 1 of Chordal 2 in Section A" should appear.
- If you want a high energy strumming pattern then increase the number of steps from 4 to 8.
- Click on the action row's Menu button and select Random Strumming a few times, until you find an interesting strumming pattern.
- Click on the R+ and 3+ Voicing buttons to add a couple of extra "strings" to the chord voicings.
Funking up the Bass
The following steps demonstrate how to change a mundane bass line into something a bit more "Funky".
This assumes that you have just worked through the Starting a New Song tutorial and so have already composed a Section A with a simple bass line using just motif 1 of Track 7.
1. Change the patch to slap bass...
- Display the Mix Page by clicking on the "Mix" Page Selection Tab.
- Locate the row for Track 7- labelled Bass 1.
- Click on the track's Patch control and select Bass, then Slap Bass 1 using the pop-up menus.
2. Add some octave jumps to the bass motif...
- Display Section A by clicking on the "A" Page Selection Tab.
- Locate the row for Track 7- labelled Bass 1.
- Click on the track's Menu button and select Edit Motif 1... from the pop-up menu.
- A Lead/Bass Motif Editor for "Motif 1 of Bass in Section A" should appear, showing the existing bass motif.
- Introduce some "Octave Jumps" by adjusting the Pitch controls of several of the steps so that they jump between the four possible octave positions (these are marked by the wide lines).
- Make one or two steps use the highest or lowest possible pitch.
- Close the motif editor.
3. Use the humanise functions to adjust the performance...
- Display the Humanise Page by clicking on the "Humanise" Page Selection Tab.
- Locate the row for Track 7- labelled Bass 1.
- Give the bass track some extra drive by adjusting the Start control to make it play slightly ahead of the other tracks.
- Reduce the Duration slightly to get more of a staccato effect.
- Increase the Strength Random and Duration Random controls slightly to introduce some variety.
Going from A to AB
The following steps demonstrate one way to start developing a single section into a larger musical form.
This assumes that you have just worked through the Starting a New Song tutorial and so have already composed a simple Section A.
1. Copy A to B...
- Display Section A by clicking on the "A" Page Selection Tab.
- Click on the section's Copy button.
- Display Section B by clicking on the "B" Page Selection Tab.
- Click on the section's Paste button.
- A Paste Options dialog should appear, accept the default options by clicking on OK.
2. Change the playlist from A to AB...
- Click on the Playlist control.
- Select AB from the pop-up menu. *
3. Alter the B section's melody and chords...
- Locate the row for Track 1 - labelled Lead 1.
- Click on the track's Menu button and select Randomise Content from the pop-up menu a few times, until you find an interesting melody.
- Locate the chord row's Random button.
- Click on the Random button a few times, until you find an interesting chord arrangement.
* Steps 1 and 2 could also be performed simply by clicking on Section A's Develop button. The manual way of doing it is presented here to show how more generalised operations might be performed.
Adding an Ending
The following steps demonstrate one way to add an ending to your composition.
This assumes that you have worked through the previous tutorials and that you have at least one section already composed.
1. Duplicate the last section and change the playlist to include the new section...
- Display the last section by clicking on it's Page Selection Tab.
- Click on the section's Develop button.
2. Shorten the length of the new section...
- Reduce the number of bars in the new section to four.
3. Modify the final few chords...
- Modify the chord arrangement of the new section.
- Use I as the last chord (eg C if the key is C major).
- Use II, IV, V, or VII as the chord before last (eg Dm, F, G, or Bdim if the key is C major).
4. Simplify the final few bars...
- Use rests to drop-out one or two tracks in the final bars.
- Reduce the number of steps used in the final few lead, chordal and bass motifs to one or two steps.
- Try using a single long note in the last lead motif.
5. Finish the melody on the tonic note...
- Reset the pitches used in the final lead and bass motifs, so that they end on the tonic note (eg C if the key is C major).
6. Turn off repeat...
- Untick the Repeat button.
Also see the Guide to Using JUMP, FAQ and Tips.
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