[pksage]

I will be streaming an interactive Rock Band custom song “Let’s Play Author” workshop this Sunday, September 22, at 5:00 PM EDT (UTC-4). Think of it kind of like a cooking show. I’ll have a finished custom project file on-hand, and I’ll step through the process from scratch with references to the finished thing. Topics will include at least a few of the following:

• Basic coverage of all the tools you need and where to (legally!) download them
• How to use REAPER
• Tempo mapping
• Guitar/bass/drums/keys authoring
• Vocals authoring
• Other random bits of the custom song process

I’ll be going for two hours, and if I haven’t covered the important parts of the process, I’ll do a follow-up stream at a later date. Please join me live and ask questions! If you can’t make it, the stream will be available on-demand as soon as it’s over, but you won’t be able to ask me questions on the air. If you know you won’t be able to make it, post your questions in this thread, and I’ll answer them as I get to the relevant part of the stream.

 

All of the content shown will be completely legal. The song I’ll be using is one of my Rock Band Network songs, to which I have licensed all of the appropriate rights.

 

If you’re interested, follow me on my Twitch page or simply tune in on Sunday. Hope to see you there!

 

EDIT: It’s done! Thanks a ton to everyone who showed up live.

 

Watch the on-demand video of the stream here: http://www.twitch.tv/pksage/c/2976214

 

Download the REAPER project and MP3 of the song from the stream here: http://keepitfishy.com/d.php?523f82190f362

[Farottone]

I sure hope you’re gonna do this in your Winnie the Pooh PJs.

[RBPUK]

I will definitely tune in on Sunday.

 

Will you be recording the session too? Think I’m gonna have to watch it several times to get my head around everything!

 

Thanks for doing this.

[Subourbonator]

Looking forward to checking this out. I’m in the midst of doing my first custom and would love to learn about shortcuts and tips that would normally only be discovered after authoring a great number of songs.

[ziagg]

Awesome, will be there if I can manage.

[pksage]

Will you be recording the session too? Think I’m gonna have to watch it several times to get my head around everything!

If you can’t make it, the stream will be available on-demand as soon as it’s over, but you won’t be able to ask me questions on the air. If you know you won’t be able to make it, post your questions in this thread, and I’ll answer them as I get to the relevant part of the stream.

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[Jerry1gman]

I would like to see a topic on creation of the harmonies tracks to songs created from scratch.

[Nightmare Lyra]

I would like to see a topic on creation of the harmonies tracks to songs created from scratch.

 

^This. Even after years of RBN authoring, harmonies are still giving me a hard time.

[Gtafan421]

Looking forward to this greatly, hopefully I can make it!

[Sideshow]

I’ll try to make it. I’m so completely lost when booting up Reaper it would be great to learn the ropes with it.

[espher]

I would like to see a topic on creation of the harmonies tracks to songs created from scratch.

 

^This. Even after years of RBN authoring, harmonies are still giving me a hard time.

 

Often easy to chart the main line, and then the harmonies are (often) just in a different pitch. Scrub is your friend! If they’re not block harmonies, they’re usually easier to pick out.

[afcchamp88]

I’d like to see some shortcuts. Like if you have a repeating two measures on guitar and you want to copy paste. There’s got to be an easy way that I can’t find. Another is copying a track from one song to another. At some point I had an events track that went entirely haywire somewhere and I wanted to bring back in another one from the template. I had a rough time with it recognizing the new track.

 

Thanks.

[Nyxyxylyth]

I’d like to see some shortcuts. Like if you have a repeating two measures on guitar and you want to copy paste. There’s got to be an easy way that I can’t find. Another is copying a track from one song to another. At some point I had an events track that went entirely haywire somewhere and I wanted to bring back in another one from the template. I had a rough time with it recognizing the new track.

Sounds like you’re overthinking it – copy and paste are pretty vanilla ctrl+C and ctrl+V.

 

Specifically, to copy a section of guitar: hold the right mouse button and drag to highlight the section you want to copy. Ctrl+C to copy. Left-click the cursor where you want to paste, and ctrl+V.

[GandWuser]

I’ll try to tune in myself.

 

Are anything related to pro keys going to be involved? I’m working on a custom and I’d like to know if there’s an easier way to figure out chords so I can chart them myself.

[Nyxyxylyth]

I’d like to know if there’s an easier way to figure out chords so I can chart them myself.

No, there isn’t. Pro keys is the hardest of the hard. It takes a hell of an ear.

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