Ableton Wavetable Videos

How To Make Slap House Bass In Ableton Live Wavetable

Thanks to :: Rudram

Used this to create a bass used in part of an upcoming song called "Deep Groove" by 31ric. I liked how the bass cut through on it's tone in his track, but was going to target mine to be a little brighter sounding. This video led me to put some variation in the original sound. It was a good video to get started with twidling the knobs a bit. He does not go into why he is setting things the way that he is though. 

I got a lot more out of this video, by ignoring the values he was setting, and worked towards something that worked better within my song. 

The very quick bit at the end with the saturator was a nice little tip for me as well. I threw that on both basslines and it perked them right up. I have found a new effect to play with for a minute.

5 Wavetable Sound Design Tips You Should Know!

Thanks to :: Dowden Production Academy

The random tip in here was great! Thanks very much for that. Added to the instrument, and the other bass sound, and it added just that little bit of variety.

Masterclass :: Mira Nair

Get out and see the world.  Yes practice your craft.  Hone your craft.  Know the history of your craft.   Now spend time doing other things.  Taste the food you make.  Read the book you just bought.  Sit under the tree in the park.  

Don't wait for someone else to write your story, you need to write your story.  You can also find a story in anything, but think of the different dimensions of that story.  

Never apologize for your work.

Masterclass:: Hans Zimmer

This is for the more advanced music student maybe.  There is not much discussion about notes, chords, or theory. This course is going to go more into the theory of why you might write something for a particular thing.  What is the story you are trying to tell?  There are some poignent stories to set the mood or timbre of the conversation.  While this is great and very inspiring in it's own way, the course is a little light in video material.  There are not many videos compare to others on music.

Burn Out & Overworked

How A Freelance Music Career Can Support Your Mental Wellness

Wow. This hit close to home. Especially looking at my short stint as a working musician in early 2000s.  The relentless need to work harder to prove something to all of the "naysayers" in my family.  There is so much of this article in me.

It also sound like some "burn outs" I have seen/ witnessed/ heard about in the Computer Incident Response field.  Especially those that work in a Security Operations Center or SOC.  As this role changes with work from home, some of these habits could be beneficial to those folks as well.

"Belafonte" Harry Belafonte

 The sheet was a little damaged, but the record looked OK to play. 

Matilda was a pick up compared to the other tunes. The whistling was out of sight.  This is much closer to my own association with Mr. Belafonte's music. 

The last song on this side is quite sad.

Side 2 

"Noah" starts with a preacher call and response rally. Using th e bible story of noah to bring context to the next piece.  It raised an eyebrow in my household to hear that coming from my vinyl all of a sudden. 

"Scarlett Ribbons" goes back to the crooner model. 

"Unchained Melody" is a tender and very sparse arrangement, but tons of vibrato on his voice. Too much for my taste. "Jump Down..." is a fun little tune. silly. the tempo speed up is nice. This is also the first song that had a skip on the record. Not bad.

"Sylvie" is more crooner. Another tune that shows how low to high, or high to low he can go in his range. Very smooth. The solo guitar with the building vocal harmony is nice. 

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