This Round Is Done!

The last round was lots of fun, and I feel like keeping up the genre theme we've got, so now we're going to bring out a genre we haven't really done that much: Rock 'n Roll.

Now, I know some of you are going to go crazy and bust out your screaming distorting and your best Randy Rhodes tapping solo goodness, but I said Rock, not Metal.

We're talking AC/DC, Chuck Berry, Rolling Stones, Black Crowes, Cream. The classics that focus on a few chords played against a driving beat with that darker smoother distortion. The kind of music that destroyed the world in the '60s.

And we'll do this one in G. Seems to be lots of great songs are in G.

Some Things To Try

Not a strict requirement, but if you're interested in making your mix a little more interesting try some or all of these:

• Change the panning during the song to focus the arrangement on a particular instrument.
• Pan the rhythm section to a separate position in the mix from the leads.
• Change the volume of some part of the mix to accentuate changes in tempo or increase action in the theme.

You of course can do all three, but a key is to do these sparingly, almost so that people don't notice you're doing it.

Of course, this is totally optional.