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Very Short Tune Made Longer a Simple Way to Do It
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0:00 Make sure you follow how the melody works in the track
Alright ladies and gentlemen, very quick video here. Let's imagine you've got a track and it's a very short track and you want it to last a little bit longer. A way to make that happen is to form a bunch of loops but there is a definite do and don't when making a loop. Make sure you follow how the melody works in the track. The worst thing in the world is to form a loop and have that loop last half the time of the melody or the duration of the melody that's taking place in the track. Now, I'll give you an example of a wrong loop. A loop that sounds repetitive. By the way, big shout out to DJ Dalla for letting me use his track. Have a listen to this very, very, very exceedingly, madly disgusting...
1:01 On the other hand, have a listen to this one
Disgustingly bad loop. Now, you can hear that that's repetitive. If you play that for more than four times, people start chucking things at you. On the other hand, have a listen to this one. Or this one. See, I'm letting that melody play before it repeats itself. So the melody is repeating itself naturally instead of me cutting the melody halfway out. Also, this one here is okay. I'm letting that phrase in the track play. Now when I say phrase, I'm not there... I'm not on about, you know, 4, 8, 16 or 32 bars. I'm on about the actual... how the track's made. That little phrase inside the track. So again, very simple, very quick video. If you do have a track that's very short prior to playing it, get some loops.
Put those loops into hot cues. And then you can just let those loops play as much as you want, giving you more time for that track, of course, to play. So, for example here, 1 minute 40. I could let that carry on playing for 3 or 4 minutes without people getting a little bit too bored. And that then gives me more time to bring something else in. Of course, if the loop has been quantized as well, which is very important, then that means that you can play the loop and you can mix in something else. Knowing it's not going to go out of beat. These loops were not quantized, this is just for demonstration purposes in this video. Hope that's a help. Thank you very much to DJ Dalla for letting me use his track.
Practice and enjoy. Nice one.
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