I’m so fascinated by your videos, they are my best source of inspiration and learning. However, I’m either too much of a newcomer in RC or too stupid to fully grasp all details.
I was in conflict for a while, whether to admit that and go tot he trouble of documenting all my questions, but now I thought, I should give it a try. Otherwise it might take me forever to wrap my mind around it.
So here’s a bundle of questions regarding your video about the Rave Chord Phrase at .
It would be great if you could fill me in about the following:
1) First of all: Even though I see it working, I still don’t fully understand the function of your new „Chromat“ chord: Why draw all 12 tones? I guess, so that it plays the right ones, corresponding to whatever scale or chords have been chosen, right? But why is this necessary, since RC would be transposing the pattern anyway?
2) Then, you write that this chord will be of no use in the arrangements. Why not? What else is it for? I don’t get it.
3) At 1:47, I noticed that you seem to have a shortcut to mark the whole block of notes, except the ones in the bass, you don’t seem to use the lasso for this. How do you do that?
4) Right after, at 1:51, in the Note editor, I see that the whole middle-section oft he Note Index is marked in blue. When I tried to do the same, only Lowest, L+1 and L+2 are marked in my version.
Why ist that and what’s the function here, anyhow? And why are my colors different to yours?
5) Then, when you switch back to Composition view at 2:16, suddenly there’s three rows of notes in the upper part oft he screen, instead of one as in the begining. How did that happen? I know, it’s the C Major chord and I assume that RC did it by itself, because that’s the chord which is given in the Master track at this position. But when I switch back to Composition view in my own version of fit, I’m still stuck with that one line:
Why is that? And again: Why is your color-scheme different than mine?
6) Then, at 2:23, I see you expanding those notes across a much longer section, and I don’t know how you are doing that. I know, I’ve read it somewhere, but I forgot. When I pull on my notes, they all get longer, but they don’t multiply.
So, these are my questions just for this one video. But enough for today, and thanks much for your time. I may ask you more questions about one of your other videos next time.
Thomas
