Reusing Choruses in Modern Rock Songs

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I don't cut and paste parts ever really. I record it all the way through because I actually enjoy playing music.
 
Thanks for the thoughts everyone. I was just curious what everyones practice was and what "common" practice was. I'll stick to what I have been doing and enjoy and that's recording everything. Except for maybe certain circumstances.
 
I do it all the way through because it's the kind of music I play. I don't think it's jammin enough otherwise, but I can see how dance pop and industrial type stuff could use a lot of editing, especially if the chorus part is multiple layers of backing vocals. Rawk, to me at least, I like to think it should be as live as possible.
 
Not that I have that much experience, but I cut and paste a lot to build up my scratch tracks, mainly cause I hate playing to a click, then play the parts all the way through, usually twice or three times unless I nail it on the first go (like that ever happens), then I listen through to make sure I feel like I can mix and match to put together a good track and move on, or maybe re-record a section here or there if necessary. Later on, when I mixing, if I find a spot where I can't get there by combining takes, and doesn't sound obvious, I'm happy to cut and paste between verses or between choruses. As somebody else said, though, it's always track by track. I've never copied whole sections.

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I cut and paste choruses if im feeling a bit lazy, but I find my self thinking "havn't I just heard that?" there is just a cirtain same-o same-o to it, I find his alot in comercial music of all kinds. even if its the exact same chorus sung and played in the same way I find there is quite a bit of intrest involved in minute changes.
 
Whole sections ? Nah. Bits and pieces ? Yeah. I might try it as an experiment one day but to be honest, it takes alot less time and is alot more fun to get three of us to treble track three choruses than to do just one and then move it about.
 
jjjtttggg said:
Not that I have that much experience, but I cut and paste a lot to build up my scratch tracks
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Actually that's a good point. When I'm writing, I'm often doing it within my DAW and I do a lot of cutting and pasting of scratch tracks so I can get a rough idea of things like structure and timing etc, or to see if a certain riff I'm considering using might fit. About half of my tunes go through a conservative editing process because the initial 'draft' is just too damn long, and it can often be more than just shortening the number of repetitions in a section. Sometimes things need to be rearranged if I'm to meet my rough idea of how long a tune should be. On the other side, sometimes I decide a section is so awesome that it needs to be twice as long. The ability to cut and paste makes writing music a such more fun experience I find.
 
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