Lessons · 105 Recording a melody
  1. 101 Playing live
  2. 102 Your own progressions
  3. 103 Your song
  4. 104 Changing styles
  5. 105 Recording a melody
  6. 106 Your own grooves
  7. 107 Fixing notes
  8. 108 Making it sound yours
  9. 109 Keeping your work
  10. 110 With other gear
  11. All lessons

105 Recording a melody

Record a melody along your song, add notes to one section, and record a second melody.

Picks up where 104 left off, with Polly stopped and your song of three sections. Any song with two sections or more works.

Watch 105 Recording a melody (1 minute)

1. Start recording M1

Press PLAY, then press EDIT for the Sound page. Turn ALGORITHM past C4 to M1 for the first melody, and press REC. Recording starts when the Intro ends.		RECORD M1 INTO THE SONG: REC M1 after the Intro

2. Play a melody

Play a melody across sections 1 and 2. The top line shows the whole song. Below it are the four bars around where you are. Your notes appear in both.

Press REC to stop recording, then PLAY to stop Polly.		Recording M1 in section 2: the notes on the song's line and in the four bars

3. Add to section 2

Press HOME for the Home page, and HOME again for the Song page. The cursor is on section 2, where the song stopped.

Press EDIT, then REC, then PLAY. Polly clicks for one bar, and then section 2 plays.

Play a few notes. They're added to the ones already there. Press REC, then PLAY, to stop.		Recording M1 in section 2: Ballad's bar 2 flashes with the new notes

4. Record M2

Turn ALGORITHM to M2 for the second melody. Press REC, then PLAY, and start playing after the bar of clicks. M1's notes show pale underneath.

Press REC, then PLAY, to stop.		Recording M2 on Strings 1, M1's notes pale under it

More in the manual

For where melodies play, clearing or copying a section's melody, and a melody's sound, see Melodies. For the count-in and the grid, see How recording works. See also The Song page.