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Creating an incomplete ‘skeleton’ of the music for the scene
  • Key Stage 4
  • Year 10
  • Music
I'm gonna create a musical skeleton for this scene. In order to do that, first of all, I need to make sure that I've got Time view enabled in my DAW, and it's the same in most DAWs. There's a similar function to what I've got in Garage Band here, which is up near the top on the dropdown menu, I can select Time rather than Beats. And now you'll see that we have seconds and minutes along the top rather than beats and bars, and that's important so that I can really match up my musical changes with the exact timestamps of the cues from the scene. Now in this project, I have my three versions of the ostinato. I have my calm, peaceful one here. I have my building tension one here, and then I have my action sequence version as well that I created previously. So I've put them all on the same project so I can use them together. The first cue is at zero seconds, I need my calm, peaceful version to start. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna grab that and make sure it starts at zero seconds right there. Then my second cue is at 20 seconds, and here, I want my tension building, my gradually becoming more fearful, exciting version, which is this one, to start at 20 seconds. So what I'm actually gonna do is I'm gonna right-click, click Cut, and then I'm gonna drag the playhead to exactly 20 seconds, make sure you've selected the right tracks, and then click Paste. Now it's slightly easier doing it that way 'cause it enables you to get exactly on 20 seconds rather than slightly off. It's quite hard when you're dragging it to actually get it precise. I recommend doing it that way. The third cue is at 40 seconds, and here I want my action sequence music to start. So I'm gonna do the same thing, Cut, Paste. Make sure I've selected the right track. I've dragged that play head to 40 seconds, and then we're gonna paste. And then my final cue is over here at one minute, and that's where we want the calm, peaceful version again. So I'm gonna copy and paste this version to one minute, and it doesn't matter at the moment that there are gaps in between them. We'll address that at slightly later point. So one minute, Copy and Paste. Now if I zoom out, we'll see we've got that skeleton in place. At the zero seconds cue, I've got my calm, peaceful version. At the 20 second cue, I've got the one that builds a bit of tension. At 40 seconds, we've got the chase music, the action sequence, and then at one minute, we're back to the calm, peaceful version.
Creating an incomplete ‘skeleton’ of the music for the scene
  • Key Stage 4
  • Year 10
  • Music
I'm gonna create a musical skeleton for this scene. In order to do that, first of all, I need to make sure that I've got Time view enabled in my DAW, and it's the same in most DAWs. There's a similar function to what I've got in Garage Band here, which is up near the top on the dropdown menu, I can select Time rather than Beats. And now you'll see that we have seconds and minutes along the top rather than beats and bars, and that's important so that I can really match up my musical changes with the exact timestamps of the cues from the scene. Now in this project, I have my three versions of the ostinato. I have my calm, peaceful one here. I have my building tension one here, and then I have my action sequence version as well that I created previously. So I've put them all on the same project so I can use them together. The first cue is at zero seconds, I need my calm, peaceful version to start. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna grab that and make sure it starts at zero seconds right there. Then my second cue is at 20 seconds, and here, I want my tension building, my gradually becoming more fearful, exciting version, which is this one, to start at 20 seconds. So what I'm actually gonna do is I'm gonna right-click, click Cut, and then I'm gonna drag the playhead to exactly 20 seconds, make sure you've selected the right tracks, and then click Paste. Now it's slightly easier doing it that way 'cause it enables you to get exactly on 20 seconds rather than slightly off. It's quite hard when you're dragging it to actually get it precise. I recommend doing it that way. The third cue is at 40 seconds, and here I want my action sequence music to start. So I'm gonna do the same thing, Cut, Paste. Make sure I've selected the right track. I've dragged that play head to 40 seconds, and then we're gonna paste. And then my final cue is over here at one minute, and that's where we want the calm, peaceful version again. So I'm gonna copy and paste this version to one minute, and it doesn't matter at the moment that there are gaps in between them. We'll address that at slightly later point. So one minute, Copy and Paste. Now if I zoom out, we'll see we've got that skeleton in place. At the zero seconds cue, I've got my calm, peaceful version. At the 20 second cue, I've got the one that builds a bit of tension. At 40 seconds, we've got the chase music, the action sequence, and then at one minute, we're back to the calm, peaceful version.