Tuesday, January 15, 2008

T.I. Rubberband Man Melody

The song Rubberband Man by T.I. and produced by David Banner uses a melody based off of the C MAJOR scale. Let's recreate the melody and then add our on drums.

  1. Open Reason
  2. Make sure you have a Mixer 14:2
  3. Set Tempo to 82 bpm
  4. Create a NN19 Digital Sampler
  5. Click on the Folder in the upper left hand corner of the NN19.
  6. In the Patch Browser, click Reason Factory Sound Bank: NN19 Sampler Patches: Organ: Organ1Perc.smp
  7. Now that we have our sound loaded we need a way to play it...ENTER THE MATRIX
  8. Go to the Create Menu and select the Matrix, all the way at the bottom of the menu.
  9. Now we want to create the melody for T.I.'s song.
  10. The first step is....the steps. This melody is 2 bars long so change the steps from 16 to 32 on the Matrix.
  11. Now we need to turn the volume down on all the steps we aren't going to use. Leave the volume on on STEPS 1, 8, 10, 11, 17, 24, 26, and 27. For all the other STEPS, turn the volume off.
  12. Now we can change the notes of the steps we have left.
  13. On STEPS 8 and 10, move the note up four spots.
  14. On STEP 11, move the note up five spots.
  15. On STEP 17, move the note up seven spots.
  16. On STEPS 24 and 26, move the note up 11 spots.
  17. On STEP 27, move the note up 12 spots.
  18. When you're done with the melody it should look like this:
  19. Now, create a Redrum and make a 32 step drum pattern using a Clap, Bass Drum, Hi Hat, and Percussion. Make sure you put the sounds on appropriate boxes!
  20. On the Redrum, Copy Pattern To Track and Click on the Pattern button.
  21. Save your beat as T.I.

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