Welcome to today’s first and possibly only episode of Stupid Logic Tricks, where I share things I almost never need to do, but I’m glad I know how to. In today’s episode, I’m going to show you a couple ways to record something like this snare drum accelerando. Now, by now, I’m hopeful Logic has found an easier way to do this, but this is how I do it.
The first way involves taking a long string of eighth notes like this, going up into your tempo track and creating a duplicate tempo set. Anytime you do tempo stuff, you should be working on a backup. Now, you’re going to select everything in your song except for this snare roll, and you’re going to lock it to simpty time.
That means it’s always going to sound the way it does right now. Why is that important? Well, because we’re going to make a massive tempo change between the beginning and the end of this roll, and we’re going to move it gradually so it sounds the way you want it to.
Now comes the fun part. Select everything and unlock it. Now you lock your new groovy drum roll, and when you go back to your original tempo set, everything will be back where it’s supposed to be, and your drum roll will still accelerate.
Unlock it and just move it where you want it to be. Now, there are a couple other ways to do this. Most of the time, these drum rolls just double in speed anyway, so you can select four measures and use the option key to drag the right border and compress them down to sixteenth notes and so on.
And maybe the easiest way to do it is to engage very speed. Just play the thing at half time, and by the time you speed it back up, no one is going to notice that your rhythm wasn’t perfect in the first place. Knowing a trick like this may only have a single use, but knowing how to do a trick like this may help you in ways that none of us can anticipate.
I don’t put stuff like this in videos because I don’t think it’s evergreen, but me and the instructors, we’ve got more stuff like this. And if you want to talk to me about it, come visit me in office hours where I am an open book. In fact, most people can’t get me to shut up.
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