How To Make and Loop a Rock Song in Ableton for Guitar

I made this tutorial with the Ultimate-Guitar.com Recordings&Riffs forum in mind, I love you guys!

Final mp3: www.myspace.com/scottyXdanger titled: "Ableton Loop Demo for Youtube Video" (I really hope you could have figured that one out on your own, though!)

This is a short tutorial for how to make a quick drum/bass/guitar loop so you can practice your guitar leads or so you can record a cool solo with a backing track! I used all real instruments to play the parts, but you can use software for the instruments and write the parts with a midi controller or by drawing in the piano roll.

I'm not going to explain how I got the Guitar Hero drums to control the kit in Ableton, I'll just tell you that I'm using a program called Osculator and let you figure it out from there.

I'd be glad to help you out if you have any questions, or if anything was unclear in the video. I skipped a lot of the basic steps like how to load a new track and insert instruments and route your audio interface and all that jazz, you can learn how to do all of that from other tutorials.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ableton
• live
• guitar
• loop
• midi
• record
• practice
• solo
• backing
• track
• ultimate

[Darr3nL3wis]

hey, I'm trying to learn this software to try nd record some metal.. but only ever find dub step hel videos... got any advice? the program seems complex! rad video btw

[draakjuh007]

hey, i use pretty much the same method but somethimes when switching the passage ( like from verse to chorus) the previous loop sounds like it stops really quick becouse there are no notes sustaining to connect the different loops, is there anything i can do to make this better? thx

[DJOnesNzeroS]

Ableton is a pretty deep program... This is barley scrach'n the surface \,,,/ \,,,/

[MrDeamon1]

Thanks uploader!! Btw your lead skills are better than you think, musicians are generally hard on themselves, I'm no different

[stevecaston]

great! thanks... just started using ableton - this is very helpful! - go canada! :P

[WastedMeerkat1]

Nice, man! This is pretty cool. Never thought of using Ableton like this.

[babypiano666]

yep, ive been making some weird rock stuff with ableton. it's all in the samples

[Signification4u]

very interesting tutorial. I found out, that you can make great heavy metal music with Ableton Live Suite

[UltraHardFist]

please upload more of this!!! tell the people that Ableton is much more than another electro machine ;-)

[FenderLewis]

hey bro, how did you get that amplitude to connect with Live. Can I use my standard plugins that come protools mpowered 8 with live 8? and how?