COMPOSITION FOR COMPUTER MUSICIANS

By Y. GAZAA

CONTENTS CHAPTER GETTING THE BEST OUT OF YOUR SETUP SCORE-WRITING PROGRAMS LOOP-BASED COMPUTER PROGRAMS PROPELLERHEAD REASON THE DAW REWIRE TECHNOLOGY THE DAW AS THE HEART OF THE SETUP ABLETON LIVE SLOWLY BUILDING UP YOUR STUDIO CONCLUSION CHAPTER KNOWING YOUR GENRE RHYTHM AND DRUM PROGRAMMING HARDWARE DRUM MACHINES SOFTWARE DRUM MACHINES KICK-SNARE PATTERNS TWO-, FOUR-, AND EIGHT-BAR EXTENSIONS WRITING FOR PERCUSSION WRITING FUNCTIONAL PERCUSSION AS A SUBSTITUTE WRITING FOR FUNCTIONAL PERCUSSION AS AN ADDITION TO CONVENTIONAL DRUMS DANCE MUSIC DRUM PROGRAMMING HARDCORE TECHNO MINIMAL AND DETROIT TECHNO COMMON VALUES PRODUCING BASSLINES ROOT BASSES OCTAVE BASSLINES ROOT AND FIFTH BASSES TRIADIC BASSES SIXTH AND SEVENTH CHORD BASSES PENTATONIC BASSLINES CHROMATIC BASSLINES WRITING MELODIC LEADS KEY SCALE AND MODE TONIC AND DOMINANT STEPS AND LEAPS MELODY, BASS, AND HARMONY THE CREATIVE USE OF FX MASTER FX INSERT FX COMPRESSION SIDE-CHAINING REVERB DELAY FILTERING CHORUS FX CHAINING WRITING FOR STRINGS LEGATO STRINGS PIZZICATO STRINGS STACCATO STRINGS DETACHE STRINGS OCTAVE STRINGS TREMELO STRINGS WRITING FOR PADS WRITING FOR ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS ARPEGGIATION MONOPHONIC/POLYPHONIC PITCH CONTROL NUMBER OF OCTAVES NOTE RESOLUTION GATE CONTROL VELOCITY CONTROL TEMPO CONTROL SWING CONTROL PATTERN CONTROL CURVE CONTROL SAMPLING CONTROL DATA APPROACHING STRUCTURE CONTINUITY AND CONTRAST; REPETITION AND CHANGE SONG FORM LAYERING AND SEQUENCING