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Creating Backing Tracks

Instructor: Tom Quayle
Topic: Recording
Style: Any Style
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    Creating Backing Tracks - Part 1 Tom Quayle
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    Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Hi there guys and welcome to this tutorial on creating backing tracks! We're going to be focusing on how I record my backing tracks with specific reference to the software I use and the plugins used to create the sounds. I use three pieces of software as my primary source of recording and creating sounds. The first is Apple's Logic Pro 8 as my sequencer of...

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    Creating Backing Tracks - Part 2 Tom Quayle
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    Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Okay! So now we've got the drum track set up in a simple form (no need for fills here as we want just an 8 bar loop). I now need to come up with a chord sequence to play over. As we've been studying playing over changes, let's do something akin to the previous backing tracks from those tutorials. I'll use 4 minor 9 chords as a base. In this case I'll recor...

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    Creating Backing Tracks - Part 3 Tom Quayle
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    Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Now for the bass part in Trilian. In order to keep the video's time down I've already written the bass part off camera but I'll go through it for you in the video. The Trilian interface is very similar to Stylus RMX and it's very quick to select a clean Fender Jazz bass patch complete with cool slides and velocity layers. When creating even simple backing ...

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    Creating Backing Tracks - Part 4 Tom Quayle
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    Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: The final part I want to add is actually a lead guitar part. In other words I'm going to try jamming over the backing track I've created. For this guitar part I'm running my Suhr into the new Shiba Drive and a Redux delay pedal again straight into Logic with an Impulse Response. It's just the easiest way to record and sounds great. I'm using dorian scales ...

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    Creating Backing Tracks - Part 5 Tom Quayle
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    Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Recording Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Okay so that about raps things up for this tutorial. Again, be aware that these are just the tools that I use for creating backing tracks, but there are many other products on the market that do the same job. You just have to find what works for you. If you guys have any questions let me know in the forums and it'd be great to hear some of your creations t...

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