The funny thing about Using a Click
I stumbled upon an article today that made me chuckle. I also realized something funny about playing with a click. Using a click will make your band tighter, using a click will give your players an absolute to “sync” up to, will get everyone on the same page, and everyone will lose 10 pounds playing to a click. The funny thing about playing with a click is that there is no perfect click. You may find a perfect click sound, but there’s no perfect click. I’ve had alot of...
Read MoreCreating Click Tracks in Ableton Live (VIDEO)
Using a click track or metronome in worship can be an incredibly freeing (yes.. freeing) experience. We’ve chatted often about using a click, especially here and here. I thought it would be fun to sit down and show how you can use Ableton Live straight out of the box to create click tracks in less then 5 minutes. This is something you could do as your band is setting up and sound checking if you wanted. It’s incredibly easy! If you’re interested in going further on how...
Read MoreSplitting your Click and Loops
One of the the first things everyone wants to know when using & creating loops is how to split the click and loop. Most people can create a loop on their own after spending some time toying around with it, but after that they want to know how to actually use the loop live with click and loop. If this is your situation then no worries, we will take a look at it today! We’ll look at two different loop setups and how you would split your loop & click when using those...
Read MoreWhy your click sucks and how to make it better
I‘ve been able to play in a variety of situations with a variety of different players which has led to me experiencing a lot of different click sounds. Some effective, and some…not so much! In this article we’ll take a look at a few reasons some of our clicks fall short and how to improve them. If you’re new to using a click it may be worth playing catch up by checking out this article and reading through the rest of the posts in the Click Trick series! 1) Lack...
Read MoreVideo Blog #1 :Properly Subdividing the Click in Live
Looking for a good Click sound for Garageband or Live? Check out Foundations for Garageband and Foundations for Live . Dual-Sound, Click Solutions that you can...
Read MoreAssigning Tempos to Scenes in Ableton Live
As we finish up this series called “Click Tricks” we are going to take a look at one of the most useful tricks to use Ableton Live. If you are interested in using loops then the techniques shared in this article will allow you to use loops in the best possible way. So open up “Live” and buckle up cause here we go! 1) Session view vs. Arrangement View Live consists of two basic views. Session View (the vertical “scene” based view) and Arrangement View...
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