Lesson 1

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Advanced Nesting of Groups

Now, instead of going back to the Explore-Theme, you’ll add that unique bridge music. The bridge music has two parts including the Music Segment called TransToBridge—that short piece of music in 3/4 time you heard when you first imported it. There would be less predictability if sometimes the transition music was used when going to the bridge, and other times the music just jumps straight into the bridge. To achieve this behavior, you’ll use a few more Groups nested within each other.

  1. Select the first Group, click the New Group button and set the new Group to Random Step.

    This group will be used to randomly pick between the bridge music or the music that includes the transition.

  2. Add the Explore-Bridge Music Segment from the Project Explorer to the new Group.

    You need yet another Group to sequentially play the transition music into the bridge music.

  3. Select the Random Step Group you just created and click the New Group button.

    The new Group is created.

    The new Group is set to Sequence Continuous by default, so all you need to do is add the Explore-TransToBridge and Explore-Bridge Music Segments to the new Group in that order.

  4. First drag the Explore-TransToBridge Music Segment of the new Group followed by the Explore-Bridge.

    Wow… that’s pretty intense! It might feel a bit overwhelming at first, but just take it a step at a time and evaluate your work. Focus on the second tier of the structure. It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3.

    • 1–The Explore music is played.

    • 2–Either the Arpeggio, Piano or Rhythm part will be randomly selected. That process will repeat for 1 to 3 times as dictated by the randomly chosen loop value.

    • 3–The music will either jump directly to the bridge, or go through a short transition before hearing the bridge.

    That’s it! From there, it goes right back to the top and repeats the process. Amazing!

  5. Play the Explore Music Playlist Container and try to anticipate how the Play Cursor will move through the playlist.


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