Originally posted by Diki:
To be honest, making an Intro from a Variation of the style to play your own chords over seems a bit redundant. Why not simply start the style in that Variation? Same thing, surely?
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For an Intro (Intro III) to play your own chords and melody over, I usually use a completely different bass line and percussion tracks, as well as put in different pad and phrase tracks...sometimes I take these parts from different Main Variations of the same style.
OR Sometimes these parts are taken from a collection of styles that I use for donors and they have great pads, phrases and bass lines that I use...that's why I call my styles, "Frankenstyles"
To make the Intro I into a one bar stop/fill, I use the bass, chord 1&2, pad, phrase 1&2 from ending I.
If ending I is two bars in length, I can also use it to make Intro II into a two bar stop/fill.
I change the percussion by using the RHY2 track from the ending and putting it into RHY1 of the stop/fill...I then modify RHY2 to give me a drum fill...sometimes I can use the count-in by erasing the cross stick sound and keeping the rest...sometimes I find a fill from another style.
I use the on board Style Creator's Style Assembly function to make my styles.
Sounds way more complicated than it is to do.
I also have a program that Michael P.Bedesem made for me (Thanks Michael!)that effectively doubles the value of the notes in the style...I then use parts of these styles for making new ones.
Ian