Building a song's like building a house. Good to start with the foundation. Actually, that's bullshit - sometimes I start with just a vocal and build a song around that, or just some keyboard loop or something. But on the whole, starting with bass and drums means that you have a solid rhythmic base on which to build things.
So this is just a basic bass and drum track for the first verse. It's all built in Reason 3.0:
Which is great because for a crappy drummer like me, I can program in the drums with mouseclicks (or play them on the keyboard and then adjust it all so it's quantized [oh, for those of you new to this, to quantize something means to adjust it so that it is rhythmically accurate. When playing something live, you might hit a snare drum just a few fractions of a second late, or your whole beat might not stay at the same tempo all the way through the song. Quantizing the notes means that they are right on the beats. Overquantizing can lead to a mechanical feel, so sometimes when adjusting things I only choose to quantize 75% of the notes in order to keep it somehow organic]) and then adjust the tempo later.
The song's starting at 120bpm, but I think i might speed it up a little bit before recording actual guitar or vocals or other audio.
If you're interested, I'm at the moment using the "FreshB MX" drumkit from the Reason Drum Kits refill, and the bass is the "Macca Beatle Bass" instrument in the Reason Factory Sound Bank.
Well, it's simple, but it's the beginnings of the song. Gotta start somewhere.
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