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Josh Skaja's avatar

Love it! Glad to know I'm not the only one using Ableton this way. :)

It's also fun to remix the form. You can get "ripple edits" by holding down shift while pasting/cutting/dupliicating. For example, while command-d duplicates the highlighted section, shift-command-d creates new time to hold what you're duplicating.

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Ethan Hein's avatar

There are so many ways that Ableton changed my musical imagination for the better. All those editing moves that you internalize, and then they become reflexes, and it's so easy to hear a piece of music and think, oh, but if they warped it out, and copied and pasted this, and deleted that, and did this other thing in half-time...

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Mark Salmi's avatar

Love the remix! The weird thing about Beatles songs, for me, is that I can often pick out a part I haven't heard before. It's like my brain gets really active and, I don't know, fills in the gaps? Unlike modern production where all the problems are already solved.

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Ray Laskowitz's avatar

Lotta words to explain why you violate the Beatles copyright. Write your own goddamn songs.

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Ethan Hein's avatar

Do you only teach or study music that you yourself have written? Do you perform music by other people? Transcribe it? Analyze it? Just listen to it closely?

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Marco Raaphorst's avatar

Imagine when this stuff enters the public domain! Great post by the way! thanks.

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Eric Roberts's avatar

Great piece! Thanks for explaining your process for doing this!

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Chris Dalla Riva's avatar

If copyright were not absurdly long, we’d avoid this issue completely

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