7-day-song Tutorial Series
Psytrance Tutorial
Here we’ve got a tutorial for those of you who like their beats hypnotic and entrancing! Goa fans – get in!
- Day 1: Psytrance Beat
- Day 2: Awesome Acid Bass
- Day 3: Acid lead synths
- Day 4: Thick Pad, Glassy Pad + Bonus Pad!
- Day 5: FX and Resampling in Reason 5
- Day 6: Arrangement and Structure
- Day 7: Mixing, Mastering & The Final Song
- Reason "Psytrance Distorted ARP" tutorial
Prog House Tutorial
Deadmau5 and Calvin Harris fans – this is for you. A 7 day song tutorial on Prog House to help you learn how to produce the dancey, dirty and uplifting genre!
- Day 1: Making a Driving Beat, Loop Layering & Filtering
- Day 2: Dirty Bass, Lead Synth & Sub Bass
- Day 3: Calvin Harris-y Lead Pad & Square Wave Pad
- Day 4: Arps and Big Bass Pad
- Day 5: FX + Vocals
- Day 6: Arrangement & Choosing the Notes
- Day 7: Mixing, Mastering & The Final Song
- Making the Beat: Deadmau5's "The Veldt" [Ableton]
Jump Up Drum & Bass Tutorial
In what is admittedly a quite Liquid-y take on Jump Up, it's time to make some uplifting, intense and most of all fun DnB!
- Day 1: Drum and Bass Beat
- Day 2: Pumping Bass Synth
- Day 3: Adding Pads
- Day 4: Porta Lead Synth + Plucked Arps
- Day 5: Wobbly Pitch Bend Synth, Delayed Piano & Vocoder Vocals
- Day 6: Arrangement, Melodies + Fills
- Day 7: Mixing & Mastering + The Final Song
Hardstyle Tutorial
Like your 4-on-the-floor genres intense? Get ready to make some seriously hard hardstyle. It doesn't have to be a hard style to produce, so take the first step to sounding similar to artists like "headhunterz" and "The Prophet"!
- Day 1: How to Make a Hardstyle Beat and Kick
- Day 2: How to Make a Hardstyle Bass
- Day 3: How to Make a Hardstyle Lead Synth
- Day 4: How to Make an Arp + Pad
- Day 5: How to Process Hardstyle Vocals + Add FX
- Day 6: How to Arrange Hardstyle Music
- Day 7: How to Mix and Master Hardstyle + The Final Song
Electro Pop Tutorial
- Electro Pop Tutorial - Part 1: Making and EQing the Beat
- Electro Pop Tutorial – Part 10: A Warm Square Wave Pad
- Electro Pop Tutorial – Part 2: Making a Portamento Lead Synth
- Electro Pop Tutorial – Part 3: Making a Distorted Guitar-like Synth Effect
- Electro Pop Tutorial – Part 4: Advanced Band-Pass Filtering
- Electro Pop Tutorial – Part 5: Making a blippy synth
- Electro Pop Tutorial – Part 6: Making a Nice Clean Bass
- Electro Pop Tutorial – Part 7: Making some sweeping arpeggios
- Electro Pop Tutorial – Part 8: A Sweet Trancey Plucked Delay Lead Synth
- Electro Pop Tutorial – Part 9: A Pitched Wood Block Style Synth
Dance Pop Tutorial
Have you ever wanted to be like Max Martin, Dr Luke or Red One – Making tunes for the biggest pop artists in the world like Lady Gaga, Ke$ha and Katy Perry? Now’s your chance!
- Day 1: Making a Beat like Lady Gaga/Ke$ha/Katy Perry
- Day 2: Synth Bass like Lady Gaga
- Day 3: Summery Ke$ha electro lead & blippy lead synth
- Day 4: Gated Pad, Pitch Bend Saw Synth & Bass Pad / Arp Synth
- Day 5: Processing Pop Vocals + Auto Tuning
- Day 6: Arrangement, FX & Melodies
- Day 7: Mixing, Mastering & The Final Song
Dirty Dubstep Tutorial
Here you can follow along with the tutorial on Brostep style Dubstep – Skrillex, Excision and Nero fans rejoice!
- Day 1: Making a Powerful Dubstep Beat
- Day 2: Making a Dirty Brostep Bass + Huge Dubstep Bass
- Day 3: Making a Throaty Wobble Bass + Quick Sub Bass
- Day 4: Making a Metallic Arp, Phasey Lead + Painful Siren Synth
- Day 5: Making a saw pad, stringy pad + prog housey synth
- Day 6: Adding FX, Arrangement + Choosing the Notes
- Day 7: Mixing, Mastering + The Final Song
G Funk Tutorial
Wh-Wha-Wh-Whaaa? It’s that MPCtacular genre that brings heavy synth bass, whirly leads and dope beats into one culmination of awesomeness and racially charged words. Start your way to becoming the next Dre here…
- Day 1: Making a Beat [7 day song]
- Day 2: Making a Synth Bass [7 day song]
- Day 3: Making a Whirly Lead, Bass Pad and Epic Strings [7 day song]
- Day 4: Funky Organ Blips, Vocoder + FX [7 day song]
- Day 5: Hip Hop String Stabs, Piano and Bell [7 day song]
- Day 6: Arranging the Song [7 day song]
- Day 7: Mixing, Mastering & The Final Song [7 day song]
Liquid Drum & Bass Tutorial
Also known as Liquid Funk or simply Liquid, this genre will have to nodding your head as you nod off with some smooth bass, ambient synths and a driving beat. Sweet!
- Day 1: Making a Beat for Chilled Drum and Bass
- Day 2: Making a Smooooth Bass
- Day 3: Making an Atmospheric Pad and a Glassy Lead
- Day 4: Making a Summery Portamento Synth and Hollow Echo Synth
- Day 5: Making a Spacey Piano and Sampled Strings
- Day 6: Arranging Liquid Drum and Bass + Adding FX
- Day 7: Mixing and Mastering Liquid DnB + The Final Song
Darkstep Tutorial
Here you can learn all about the genre that is so evil it makes skeletons vomit (Nice mental image, right?) Also known as Neurofunk, Darkcore and Techstep – here’s some seriously dark drum and bass!
- Day 1: Making a Dark DnB Beat
- Day 2: A Neurofunk Bass, Resonant Bass, Sub Bass + Sidechaining
- Day 3: A Gated Lead + A Swooshy Ethereal Pad
- Day 4: Making an Atmosphere + some Shhhhhhhh
- Day 5: FX, Pitch Bend Synth + Filtered Loop
- Day 6: Arranging a Darkstep Drum and Bass Song, Filtering the bass + Choosing notes
- Day 7: Mixing, Mastering + The Final Song
Bassline Tutorial
A tutorial for the UK Electronic Dance Music genre "Bassline" - similar to artists like "H two O" and "DJ Q", with an emphasis on shuffled percussion and prominent basses! (Shockingly.)
- Day 1: Making + EQing a Bassline Beat
- Day 2: Making a Sweet Bassline Bass Synth
- Day 3: Making a wow and wobble bass synth
- Day 4: Making a Hollow House and Dirty Dubstep Bass Synth
- Day 5: Pizzicato Strings, Delayed Piano and a Sweeping Pad
- Day 6: Arranging a Bassline song, FX and a Pitch Drop Synth
- Day 7: Mixing, Mastering, Vocals + The Finished Song
Hip-Hop Tutorial
Here you can see all the Hip-Hop-eriffic tutorials from the Hip Hop 7 Day Song Reason 4 Tutorial! Great for beginners looking to get their head around basic beat making.
- Day 1: Making & EQing a Hip Hop Beat
- Day 2: Making the Bass, Sub Bass + Hats
- Day 3: Sampling an Orchestra Hit + Adding Scratching
- Day 4: Portamento Lead + Guitar Pick Lead
- Day 5: String Stabs + Waa! Synth
- Day 6: Vocals, Arrangement + Percussive Breakdown
- Day 7: Mixing & Mastering and the Final Song
Trance Tutorial
Looking for help on how to make high quality Trance Music? Here’s the page for you, with free Reason 4 tutorials just waiting to help you make Euphoric music!
- Day 1: Making & EQing a Trance Beat
- Day 2: Making a Trance Bass & an Acid Lead Synth
- Day 3: Making a Gated Pad and Bass Pad
- Day 4: Making 3 Epic Trance Lead Synths
- Day 5: Adding FX, Panning Noise, Choir and Strings
- Day 6: Arranging / Structuring the Trance Song
- Day 7: Mixing & Mastering and the Final Song
Electro House Tutorial
Looking for help on how to make high quality Electro House? Here’s the page for you, with 7 free Reason 4 tutorials just waiting to help you make sexy music like Benny Benassi, Fedde Le Grande and Bodyrox!
- Day 1: Making an Electro House Beat
- Day 2: Making a Sexy Electro Bass
- Day 3: Adding FX, Samples and a Blippy Synth
- Day 4: Making a Sexy Electro Lead Synth
- Day 5: Adding the Vocal Hook
- Day 6: Arranging the Electro House Song
- Day 7: Mixing & Mastering an Electro House Song
Drum & Bass Tutorial
Here is the page with my 7 day song Drum and Bass Reason 4 tutorial on it! Get practicing your X-outing!
- Day 1: Making a DnB Beat
- Day 2: Making a Reese Bass and Sub Bass
- Day 3: Making a DnB Lead Synth [7 Day Song
- Day 4: Making some chilled pads and a verse beat
- Day 5: Arranging the DnB song
- Day 6: Pitch bend FX and Fills
- Day 7: Mixing & Mastering + The Final Song
Dubstep Tutorial
Here you can find links to all my Reason 4 Tutorials on Dubstep music! Sweet, huh? Load ‘em up and get wobbling!