All language subtitles for How to program guitar strumming patterns (inglese_ASR)

yeah welcome back everybody to another

feature sound tutorial this time we want

to talk about guitar strumming

and i want to show you a simple way how

you can create your own

guitar strumming patterns in your

computer so what we'll create we will

create something

like this

in my tutorial i will use sandok song

studio but you can use any door that you

like

so the principles will apply to anything

that you want to use

and i want to get started now so

let's take a look at sundock i created a

chord progression over here

and it sounds like this

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and now when i click on use chords i can

create

a strumming rhythm in the sun doc

sequencer

we have the full chords mode so in full

quartz mode the sequencer will always

trigger

all the chord notes and as you can see

we have a slider down here

and that's the strumming slider so when

i

pull up this here

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sundock will play back the chord notes

in a way

where a little bit of latency is

involved so let's take a look i will

export the midi file put it down here

zoom in so you can see when i work with

this slider

sundock will create some nodes with a

bit

of space between them when you see a

guitarist

the guitarist always plays in a certain

movement

you pull down your hand and put it up

again

and then you keep this motion going

all the time the second rule is when you

do this movement sometimes you decide to

hit the strings

and you will hear the sound of the

guitar then and sometimes you decide

that you don't want to hit the strings

so basically you keep this rhythm going

with a strum down and strum up

and sometimes you will trigger and

sometimes you won't trigger

so let's recreate this in sundock i will

add another trigger here

and pull down the slider so let's listen

yeah second rule when you work with

natural instruments

you want to keep velocity in mind so

when a guitarist plays on the guitar the

velocity

won't be always the same you will always

have small

variations and smaller differences so

how can you do that in sun dock you

click on advanced and then use randomize

velocity let's listen again

so let's get to the first rhythm

i will use a length of 16 steps because

16 steps is a good length to create an

interesting pattern

in the beginning i would recommend to

use a very simple rhythm

so start with a simple rhythm and decide

where you want to put your focus on for

example

let's create something like

this let's listen

that's pretty simple and very focused so

the first thing that we have to do let's

add some strum so on the bold steps

we will use a strum in this direction

like on the 1 5 9

and on the 13.

and on the offbeats like 3 7

11 and so on we will use this drum

down let's

listen again

yeah that's our basic rhythm and now in

the next step we will add other triggers

and these triggers are meant to fill the

pattern a little bit

to add some movement and also add some

variety

so i will add something on the 5 for

example and also on the 15

but we don't want to steal the focus

from our other triggers

so let's pull down the velocity here

so on our main triggers we have a higher

velocity

and on the other ones we have a lower

velocity

let's listen again

it's already getting better so in the

next step we will add

some additional variety and how can we

do that let's get

two inversions what is an inversion when

you play a chord

like a c major for example c major is c

e and g and now in an inversion

for example the first inversion you move

the lowest note

one octave up so after that

we still have a c e and g in this chord

but at a different pitch so it will

sound like a different color

but it's basically the same harmonic

information

so in sundock we can simply say that we

want to trigger

the chord with a one and this is the

first inversion then

or we can use a minus one and that's the

first inversion down

so i will use a minus one here and maybe

also

minus one here and let's listen again

yeah and let's take a look at the midi

file

let's see as you can see here we

triggered

the main chord so the basic e g sharp

b chord and then we triggered the first

inversion down

then the normal chord again again

inversion down

and the normal chord yeah we already got

a really nice strumming rhythm going

but something is missing and that's the

bass

um in this instrument box we use the

full chords mode

but now we will add some body to this

rhythm

and we will use another box for that

here we use

octave 3 and in the next box we will use

octave 2 so 1 octave down we will use

the same channel it's also on midi

channel 1 and sundock will use

this information to merge the nodes into

one instrument

ok so i will use the source mode

chord nodes now and in quad nodes mode

the sequencer will only trigger single

notes

and 0 is the lowest note of the chord

the one is the next note and so on

so we will work with the bass notes

and i would recommend to use very very

simple patterns here

like putting a trigger on the one

another one here

and another one here solo it

sounds pretty boring i guess

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but when we mix it with the other box it

sounds

fairly good

yeah and that's the basic concept how

you can create your own

strumming lines and you can also create

stuff like this it

follows the same formula

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or something like this one

and as you can hear there's a lot going

on you can find

very interesting strumming lines by

using this paradigm of my six steps

and what's also nice and maybe it's a

bonus point

when you click on the double tempo here

and then sunlock will playback the

pattern twice

the tempo so it sounds like this

maybe play around with velocity a bit

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and this is an easy way to create

another variation

yeah i hope you like it and i also

created another package for you it's

called the golden guitar package and you

can find it at feeler sound i will put

the link in the description

and inside this package you will find

some extra patterns for

strumming you can use them as a base for

your own creations

and it's free yeah you can use it for

any production

that you like and i hope you like it and

see you next time