by Kyle
on April 30, 2009
in gear, how to, tips
I’m always on the search for music gear that I want/need/lust after. I also have nowhere close to the amount of money I need to get the gear I thirst after. Craigslist is an obvious place to start when looking for local gear that people are trying to part with. The problem is so are [...]
by Kyle
on April 28, 2009
in how to, tips
A vocal cue track is an audio track set to a click, and usually ran along side of a loop, that is sent to your in ear monitors only and serves as a helper track, guiding you inside your arrangement. The primary purpose is to keep the band in sync with the arrangement and is [...]
by Kyle
on March 25, 2009
in how to, live, music, tips
Bryan Nelson at Vertical Resonator recently did a post showing how his church actually syncs two live bands in 2 different rooms for their worship service. He leads worship at Topeka Bible Church and is really doing some great creative stuff. The two bands play the same set, at the exact same time in 2 [...]
by Kyle
on March 4, 2009
in how to, music, tips
I receive a lot of questions and requests for transposing my loops so I thought I might as well give a tutorial on how it’s done. It’s really quite simple to do in Reason, so let’s get started. This tutorial assumes you have Reason and have opened some project. 1. Select pitched midi notes You [...]
by Kyle
on February 4, 2009
in gear, how to, tips
I created a screencast to show you just how easy it is to create your own click tracks in Garage Band. You might also be interested in my post on an OSX BPM widget that lets you tap out the BPM for songs in your iTunes library. You can click through to the video on [...]
by Kyle
on January 26, 2009
in how to, live, music, tips
Micah D. sent in this question on the “How to introduce click tracks to your band” post. How do I put the click track through monitors [and] the loop … through the main speakers? Good question. The goal is to get the loop playing through the mains and available to monitor mixes but the click [...]
by Kyle
on January 21, 2009
in band, how to, music
Why use a click? I don’t want to assume we all know and appreciate the benefits of a click so I figured I’d start here. A click insures your band plays a song in the correct time and keeps your band in the correct time through the duration of the song. Without using a click [...]
by Kyle
on December 16, 2008
in gear, how to, live, tips
This site talks a lot of using loops in worship and I wanted to take a minute and talk about how to setup your laptop for playing any kind of audio live off your Mac. This posts focuses on mac because if you are relying on a windows machine to play any kind of live [...]