How I record rock songs quickly in Ableton Live

Can you take a piano piece and turn it into a rock song? Let's find out! Also: I walk through how I record a rock song from start to finish using Ableton Live & REAPER.

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Sample libraries featured:

Plugins featured
- Vocals: Waves CLA Vocals
- Bus Reverb: Valhalla Room

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[arendleejessurun]

Love this! That verse melody reminds me a lot of Death Cab. And it's cool to see your Ableton-Reaper workflow. Your Ableton videos are making me consider actually learning and putting to use that Live Lite license I have.

[arsphoenix]

Was not expecting to hear these Sunny Day Real Estate vibes!

[danvan]

Good Video, nice to see the time lapsed, edited video of you building the project

[jonny]

It’s like a cross between Death Cab and Pavement. Good job David

[BrodyWoelke]

Really week done, gonna reference this later.

[nickshutte]

Great video & demonstration of some skills to change an idea into a song!

[hardymaritz]

This reminds me of the Alan Parson’s Project.
Well done

[WillClancyMcNab]

Awesome video! :D came for learning on how to improve on my Ableton skills and found out it is actually OK to work between Ableton and Reaper (which I've been doing for a while and felt bad about it xD)

[shapedsilver]

Before you replaced the piano with the guitar it sounded like an indie pop song that would’ve been popular in like the late 00’s

[HaroldIsaacMartinezRangel]

Question.
Why didn't you record the guitars and vocals directly in Ableton? Why you decided to use Reaper to that part of the process?

[dralithi]

"How I record in Ableton"
*Records in Reaper* 😅
(I kid, if you like Reaper's take function, why not use it?)

[andrewbarker]

Great video, cool song! The Bandcamp link to the song seems to be broken though.

[Anne-bffb]

And the flaming lips sound in there too

[Anne-bffb]

Sounds like if death cab, Radiohead, and coldplay had a musical baby

[django-music]

I love the result. Which mic are you using for your vocals?

[MusicalMarble]

It has kind of a Foo Fighters feel to it.

[RichiiMichii]

why you recording on reaper if you can recording in ableton? why??

[Lonleywolf]

sounds a little bit like Jimmy Eat World

[acnowmc]

Hair brush, its a wonderful invention