TaurusBeats Uses Propellerhead Reason

TaurusBeats: taurusbeats - TaurusBeats Music by Taurus M. James

Using Propellerhead Reason Since 2000

Beats Made With Reason

Reason Beats

Using Propellerhead Reason since 2000 to make beats and moody instrumental music.

Tips On Using Reason

Reason Tips

Learn Tips and Techniques used by TaurusBeats in Propellerhead Reason.

Propellerhead Reason Turorials

Reason Tutorials

Watch detailed tutorials showing how TaurusBeats uses Propellerhead Reason to create sample flip beats and moody instrumental music.

Common Grace

Common Grace is a RnB Soul Groove Sample Flip Beatreflecting some of my long road trips across the United States.

I made this sample flip beat after listening to a wonderful piece of music from the "LifeScapes" collection that I bought from Target.

Common Grace Produced by TaurusBeats for The Genius collection

This GRACE is extended to you from God our Father through Jesus Christ our Lord.

One of my "epic beats" from "The Genius" collection.

Lone Wolf

Genre(s): Experimental, Dance, Soundtrack (Television theme, Film)

Mood(s): Agitated, Aggressive, Rhythmic/Upbeat

Tempo: Fast 123 BPM; Medium (111 - 130)

Other Descriptions: piano, preview, experimental, ska

Worship Him (v2)

I had this idea to do my own rendition of "Come all ye faithful" a couple of weeks ago. I decided later that I didn't want to follow the original at all, but I just wasted a way to "loosely" identify my rendition with the original song that inspired the whole idea.

The original song calls for the worship if Christ The Lord. The historical accounts of Jesus' birth point out that worshiping God was the response of Mary, Zachariah, the Shepherds, the Magi (Wise Men) and many others. With that in mind, I composed this song and named it "Come Let Us Worship Him" with my focus really being that final tag of the original song - "O Come Let Us Adore Him / Christ The Lord."

Here's the SECOND version of my composition - "Come Let Us Worship Him."

Worship Him - Make Music in Reason - Oxygen25 Akai MPD32 Reason 4

Here's my interpretation of a well-known Christmas song that I made a few years ago. This is one of my original Moody instruMental Music creations done using Propellerhead's Reason 4.01 music software, the Akai MPD32 and the M-Audio Oxygen25 USB keyboard controller.

Grace and Peace!

"Come, Let Us Worship Him"
Moody instruMental Music
from the "Messiah" collection
Copyright 2008 by Taurus M. James.
All Rights Reserved.

Not By Sight

2 Corinthians 5:7
New International Version (NIV)
For we live by faith, not by sight.

Life Story Music from the VISION Collection

Django Unchained Piano Freestyle Beat Video

Django Unchained Piano Freestyle

This one is an original. I made the sample flip beat first and added the piano part afterward. What you see in this video is me doing the piano freestyle (improvisation) over the basic sample flip and finger snap. The finger snap serves as the metronome, keeping time for me in the video.

Building Music With Basic Parts Video Series Part 6

Make Music with Reason: Building Music With Basic Parts (Part 6 of 7)

Building Music With Basic Parts Part 6

Learn how to make instrumental music using Propellerhead Reason and the Yamaha DJX MIDI keyboard as a controller.

In this video, I show you "How I Reason" by covering the following:

In Part 6:
- Building the piano chords
- Layering piano chords with multiple Reason devices
- Verse structure
- Programing LH and RH piano parts
- Humanizing Techniques to male piano sound more human (more human feel)
- Changing octaves for piano parts

Time: 6:10

Propellerhead Reason Making Music With Basic Parts Video Series Part 6

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New Life Sample Flip Beat Video

In this video, I am using the AKAI MPD32 USB/MIDI PAD CONTROLLER to trigger sounds in Propellerhead Reason devices while making the track "New Life". I am really hyped up about this track because of the ending. No matter when I play this one, the orchestration in the ending always hypes me up.

New Life - Reason 4 beat instrumental mpd32 oxygen8 sample

Pound Cake Remix Beat Structure Video Series Part 2

Beat Structure Walk-through

The CAKE Moody Instrumental Music Remix walk-through continues in this Beatmaking tutorial video. TaurusBeats covers beat structure and how to arrange beat parts to move the listener through the beat. Watch as TaurusBeats explains beat structure and arrangement, in detail, in part 2 of 5 in this beat tutorial video series. The Making of "CAKE" - the Moody Instrumental Music (Mood Music) version of Pound Cake by Drake.

Pound Cake Moody Instrumental Music Beat Structure Arrangement - Part 2 of 5

Here's part 2 of the video series showing the making of the Moody Instrumental Music Remix of Drake's Pound Cake and explaining the song structure / beat arrangement.

Beatmaking tutorial - Song Structure - How to arrange beat parts - The Making of the Moody Instrumental Music version of Pound Cake (Drake) - "Cake"

In This Beat Tutorial Video...

- Beat Structure Walkthrough of verses and choruses
- Verse One Beat Structure
- Verse Two Beat Structure
- Piano solo development using layering techniwue
- Instrumentation change-ups within verses
- Continuous buildup to a climax as song progresses
- Counting Bars (Measures)

Pound Cake Moody Instrumental Music Remix Beat Structure Arrangement Video Series Part 2

Time: 6:03

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