- [Presenter] In this video, I'm gonna show you
how you can easily automate tempo changes
within Ableton Live arrangement view.
This is gonna come in handy
when you're building full setlists of songs
within a single Ableton project
and you want the tempo of Ableton Live's metronome
to automatically change to the tempo of an individual song.
(upbeat music)
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an online course that's gonna walk you through step by step
how to use Ableton Live to run a click, backing tracks,
and automate lyrics and lighting in worship.
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Now let's dive into the training.
So here I have an Ableton Live project
that contains a complete setlist of four worship songs.
This is a standard amount of songs you would see
in a worship gathering.
I prefer setting songs up in arrangement view
like what you see here
because there's just so much more customization
that can happen.
When you're using arrangement view,
you can create some great transitions.
I think it make it a lot easier also
when you're setting up midi cues
like for ProPresenter
or automating any other production elements in worship.
One thing about assembling a full setlist of songs
in arrangement view is you want to be able
to change Ableton Live's metronome
as the playhead advances through the different songs.
That's where the role of the tempo clip comes in.
The technically proper way to go about doing this
is to enable automation in Ableton Live arrangement view
and then go down here under the master track
and you're gonna select song tempo right here.
I actually can't do it because of the way I have it set up
with these tempo clips, but technically, if you wanted to,
you could go through this track right here
and set automation points.
But that can be kinda labor intensive.
I prefer the way I'm about to show you how to do this
with tempo clips because it just makes your workflow
much more efficient.
You're gonna drag in these individual songs sessions
and automatically Ableton's gonna know
where it needs to change the tempos
based on these clips up here.
So let me show you how it works.
I'm gonna zoom in here to the first song.
Notice that I have a track called tempo clips.
This is an audio track
and then it contains these blank audio files
that I'm calling the tempo clips.
These tempo clips when I double click on them
and down here for this clip, you're gonna see
that warp is enabled and so is the master button.
So that means when the playhead hits this audio clip,
it's going to change the master tempo of Ableton Live
to the proper tempo of the song.
Watch what happens, I'm gonna start the playhead here
where there's no tempo clip and look at the bpm.
(metronome ticking) It goes to 120
'cause that's the default
beats per minute tempo of the song
Then when it hits the tempo clip,
- [PC] One
- [Presenter] It changed - [PC] Two
- [Presenter] to 115
so you can hear - [PC] One, two,
three, four - [Presenter] the metronome
change it's tempo. (lively music)
So whenever I build my individual song sessions
in Ableton Live, each of them get this blank audio clip
that sets the master tempo.
All I have to do when I'm building an individual song
is navigate to my templates folders that I have
and I have this project called the tempo project.
In this tempo project, I created that blank audio file
called my tempo clip and all I do is drag it
onto the timeline, onto the tempo clip track.
So setting this up is really simple.
You're gonna drop in the audio file
into the individual song session
and then you're just gonna drag that audio file out
till it covers the whole length of the song.
You're gonna save your individual song session
and then you can go ahead and start dragging sessions
into a complete setlist like what you see here.
Then you can do some interesting things
with these tempo clips
when it comes to transitions in worship.
Watch what happens when we get to the end
of You Are Life here.
(lively music plays)
- [PC] Ending
So I have my pads fading in here
(mellow music)
and then the tempo changed to 68 beats per minute.
Then I have this section here that's just gonna loop
so when it hits this repeat cue right here,
it's gonna loop back to here,
and we just have looping pad and click.
This can be great if you're wanting
to just have that freeflow moment in worship
and what's cool is that all I have here is a pad
and a tempo clip which is setting the tempo
of Ableton Live's metronome.
I actually set this tempo to the tempo of the next song
so then when I cue up the beginning of this next song,
it's gonna go ahead and, the next downbeat,
it's gonna start off that song.
- [PC] Two, three
- [Presenter] Turn on the guide cue for ya
- [PC] four
- [Presenter] And just to show you a little bit more
of how this works.
I'm gonna go over here to the end of this setlist
and let's pretend that when we get done this song,
I want to have the click automatically change
to a different tempo right here
(vocal music plays) it's, uh, 70 beats per minute.
So let's say I wanted to change the tempo
at the end of this song to 90 beats per minute.
I'm gonna go ahead and just select my tempo clip right here,
drag it in, I'm gonna extend it however far it needs to go,
and this is gonna create a looping section
of click and pads.
Then I can select the right tempo
so I'm gonna make sure I have this tempo clip selected
and I'm gonna view the details
and settings down here in clip view.
Then I'm gonna toggle on the master button right here.
That's gonna make this clip set the master tempo
of Ableton Live,
then I'm gonna change my bpm to 90.
Sometimes I like to toggle that one more time
just to make sure it actually
enables those changes right there.
So watch what happens we the playhead hits this clip.
(mellow music plays)
This changes to 90 now.
And now I have a looping pads and clicks section
at 90 beats per minute.
So if you wanna start using the tempo clips
to automate tempo changes in your Ableton Live set
as well as to just make sure
each of your individual songs
has that master tempo assigned to them,
you can download my free tempo project.
It's linked below this video in the descriptions.
Go ahead, click that link, complete the form,
and I'll send you this free tempo project.
Well that wraps the Lead Worship with Ableton quick tip
(lively music) I have for you today.
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in your worship ministry, I wanna invite you
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