I'm going to show you a few quick tips that will make moving around in Ableton much faster and organizing your sessions a bit easier as well. So let's start by naming these tracks. By default, when you add a virtual instrument, it's going to title that track whatever the name of the instrument is, but this doesn't really have any relationship to what I mean when I see it. I want it to be called Drums. So with the track selected, I can right click here and then you can see I have the option to rename this track and the key command is Command+R on a Mac or Ctrl+R on a PC. So I'm going to hit Command+R to rename. I'm going to just type in Drums the press Enter and I've renamed this track successfully. So here as well, I'm going to use the key command this time. I'm just going to Command + R or Ctrl + R on a PC and I'll call this Keys. Now I quickly want to jump from this track to the next track. So instead of pressing Enter and then having to go through this renamed protocol again. I'm just going to hit Tab and it's going to bring me over to this next track and I called this Vocal loops. And then for this fourth track, I'll call this Longer clips. So it makes sense to me and you name it whatever makes sense to you and the same thing goes for each of these clips on a clip basis. I'll say Command+R in order to rename and I'll call this 1 and then instead of pressing Tab to go over to the next track, I'll just press Down and then I have got the next clip selected. I'll call this 2 and I'll call this 3, right. So just to finish up here, I'm going to call this Keys 1, Keys 2 and Keys 3. So I've got this all compartmentalised. It's feeling really good to me. So additionally, I can create groups if I want to have like minded, or like sounding tracks and put them together in a single category. I can put them in what's referred to as a group. So I've got my first track selected. I'm holding down Shift and I'm selecting the next clip. So both of these tracks are currently selected. And again, I can go to Edit up here and I can choose Group Tracks if that's something that I want to do or here's the key command listed. So I'm just going to go ahead and use the drop down menu to create this group. And so now both of these tracks live inside of what's called 3 Group, Track 3 and it is a group I can open and close the group by clicking on this little circle that's on the right hand side of the track title. I'm going to rename this Vocal Loops because they are both tracks full of vocal loops. I can expand or contract so I don't have to just launch on a per click basis. I also can launch per scene and on the master here, you can see that I've got numbers and there's a play icon on the left hand side of what looks like as an empty clip slot but it's not, it's a scene launch button and if I launch Scene 1, every single clip not host on 2 row is going to be launched for me. [MUSIC] Here I go with number two. [MUSIC] So some people might make a lot of sense to compartmentalize and organize your Clips like song form that may be scene 1 is your verse and scene 2 is your chorus. And just like we were renaming the tracks in the groups we can also rename these scenes as well using the key command and I'm going to call this Verse and we just keep on going. Name them whatever makes sense to you. So we have a lot of options in terms of organizing, naming and lastly if I right click here, you can see I can color code things however I want as well. So I have a large palette to select from I'm going to see that group is pink and even on a per click basis. This clip is going to be dark gray, right? So you can color coordinate things, you can choose your naming protocol, whatever makes sense for you and makes it easier to navigate inside of the DW for you. As you continue to compose, you're likely going to need a lot more tracks than the to MIDI and two audio tracks that you're greeted with in the default session. So in order to create a new audio track or a new midi track, you're going to go up here, select Create and you can see that you can insert an audio track and here I have 3 audio, can create insert a midi track and here is my new midi track and I can also insert another scene. So if you run out of Clips here, you can see I can go down and it stops at 8 for me. Here you go. So if you need more Clips in a vertical sense, you can always just insert another scene by going to Create, Insert Scene and then I've given another row to keep adding clips and keep composing. The last quick tip I'm going to show you today is how to transpose midi really quickly. So I'm going to select all of these notes. And I can do that by highlighting or I can use Command+A or Ctrl+A on a PC and that is to just select everything that's currently in what I'm looking at in this sequence. So I've used Command+A to do that. Now if I use the arrow key, [SOUND] You can see that I'm transposing up by semitone at a time. [SOUND] Back down. If I hold down Shift and Up, I go an octave at a time. That's a really nice way, if everything needs to be shifted up or down you can go by semitone or you can go by octave as well and do some really quick edits. A lot of times I find that all sequence things around the same range, right? I have a very small MIDI controller. So it's all kind of laying in the same spot and sometimes it's makes a huge difference just to take a sequence and notch it up an entire octave. Leave a little space for the other instruments and that's one of my favorite, key Commands is to just quickly transpose midi like that.
