How to make an EP in a day | Reason 12 tutorial feat. Sharpson

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Irish Producer and DJ; Sharpson, breaks down how he wrote and produced an entire EP for his new Lo-Fi Trance Project in one day. The London based producer goes through his 3 techniques of how to establish multiple musical ideas and develop them in under 30 minutes, curing writer's block and using quick hacks to get basic ideas down.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:18 Getting signed and dropped by a label
01:52 3 Techniques to get a quick workflow
04:00 Tip 1: Using Combinator Patches
10:18 Tip 2: Tower + Pyramid
11:26 Tip 3: Blocks and Arrangement
23:06 Finishing up your tracks
23:23 Conclusion

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Big love Reason crew for having me! Hope you dig the Boy Racer tunes 🏁

sharpsonmusic

This has to be the best Reason related video I've seen in many years. I want more of these "Reason as a DAW" videos. This is the kind of stuff that inspires us Reason users to make more music. Well done Sharpson and Reason Studios on this one.

juicerox

Wow this video was released on my birthday! After watching your video Sharpson I AM A FAN! Bro I love your workflow. I have not produced anything with Reason in a few years but I will be dusting it off after watching this. Looks like fun quick process!!!

KaiWenFranklin

Blocks are really useful and not promoted enough by RS. Vids I see using Blocks are typically like this vid. Just used to colour code an arrangement when there is so much more using blocks can bring. I use blocks with the addition of extra note lanes per instrument so I can toggle on/off note lanes when I want to. This way, you don’t need extra blocks for variation. I also use blocks to hold different chord progressions to try different arrangements and progressions.

rjbush

This is amazing and one I will watch again and again as a reminder to keep it simple. Now, to go build my combinators 💪

TwdlD

Big up Sharpson, legend. Never knew he used Reason too, what a guy! Great tips, gonna start making and saving combinator patches now.

gavin

Even though this is not the type of music I make I found some good workflow tips here. Developing a workflow that enables creating of a complete song quickly is something I' ve struggled with. Blocks and Tower + Pyramid are techinics I'm going to employ on my next song idea.

YJG-

Time constraints are so beneficial for my production.

DavidAndersonKirk

What is really inspiring is that you are working full-time but still producing.

noisesbyjames

The way your able to pump out so many beats is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. Talk about staying in the zone. I think you have literally changed my work flow. Me and combinator are now best friends.

kjwworldwide

Most useful workflow I've seen mate sweet X

RFMUSIC

It is very nice to (finally) hear someone who speaks and presents well. I am not really into what he suggests, BUT there is a logic to it and seeing his pre-made sounds are suited to his intended results (and not RND hopefulness) it is working well for the formulaics that define EDMyness. Giving himself an Arrangement and therefore Targets has a fair sense. Musicians use targets (or "set pieces" like furniture in a room) to help make their pieces work all the time. IF personal parts are added around these set pieces, the bones can become something ok - assuming of course he is not correct about Spotifry (non)listeners not wanting to hear creativity (or is that humanity). "Keep it quick, Keep it going" is very good advice as many DOA from overworking rather than focusing on the target and moving forward.
:-)

BenedictRoffMarsh

This is great. I'd love to see more behind-the-scenes building tracks with different styles of music. Maybe mixing guitar and Reason instruments.

CritelliArt

He's not actually really using the Blocks functionality at all. He's just labelling the song's sections, by just using different Blocks cos they have different different colours. If you actually use *Block View* (first enable it from the Options menu at the top of the screen, then click B to jump between Block View and Song View), and then edit what's in a particular Block itself, when you go back to the Song layout page (by hitting B again), whatever you've included in Block 1, say, will *automatically* show in the Song layout section when you draw in Block 1 into the Song section. That's how you quickly build layouts - make a version that has your full loop, with all the drums, bass, synths, fx, etc, and then maybe another with different notes for the chorus, then just lay out the track in Song view, and use the Mute tool to mute the bits you don't want to hear yet, and make the inverted pyramid he mentions. for the intro/outro, for example. Trying different items coming in first is then as simple as just unmuting & muting them, versus his way where you have to copy and paste the bars all over again.

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