what is going on people, welcome back to another
video. today's video is a little bit different.
now I've got some good news, and that is that
I've recently landed a placement on Link Up
TV. If you are from America and you don't
know what Link Up TV is, it's basically a
huge, like UK, Rap Afro beat, trap kind of
blog. Yeah I've recently landed a placement
with S Finesse, that's the guys name. He is
a rapper based in London. (song preview).
And yeah he basically DM'd me about 5 or 6
months ago, interested in a beat that literally
made over a year ago. But yeah the reason
why I am saying this is because I went though
like a ton of old videos and I forgot that
I actually vlogged me making the beat to the
song that he made out of it. The only thing
is that I posted that vlog back when I only
had 200-300 subscribers. So I thought why
not revamp that footage,show you guys how
I put that beat together, Yano literally from
the chords to the drum to the bass like I
put everything in there, and yeah it turned
out to be a hit! But yeah I'm gonna roll that
footage back for you. Before I do though,
if you are a producer I have recently announced
a beat contest for all producers, anyone can
sign-up it's totally free. So if you want
to part of that and want to know how to enter,
then go and check out my most recent video,
and you can see all the details on how to
get onto that. But yeah, let's dive into this
video!
aye, aye, aye!
okay so we've got the train track sample,
this was the original sound that I found...
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Okay, and then I've played with the sound,
put it through New Tone, just to flatten out
the sound a little bit, and just played with
the tempo as well, and it sounds like this...
(music playing)
Kinda got that like grungy sound to it, kinda
like slowed it down and gave it like a grungy
type of texture. But yeah let's go make a
beat from it...
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slap a bit of Gross Beat...
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I quite like that for the melody, That can
be like the main base of the melody. Now I
just throw in like, some drums, and maybe
add like a second melody for the chorus, and
we'll be there!
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come in with the snare...
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(Screaming)
hey, hey , hey!
hey, hey, hey, hey...
Jesus! that turned out pretty well. Let me
talk you through what I did.
So i started out with that sample, so we started
out with this.
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okay, but what I did with it was, if you don't
know how to do this. This is really helpful
when it comes to sampling and keeping everything
in key. Cause that's the main thing I know
how annoying it can be when you get a sample,
and no matter how much you play around with
it, it just doesn't sound right, and the reason
why it doesn't sound right is probably cause
it's out of key. So even with this sort of
percussive sound, it does have a tone to it,
so what I did was take the original sound,
also what you'll see if you detect the pitch,
is look at all these different keys this is
played in, so you've got C, G#, F, G, A you
know you've got loads there.
So the best way to get around how I fixed
the tone of it was, I opened up New Tone,
which is kind of like an auto-tuner, but it's
very manual so a lot of people don't like
to use it, but when you're playing with samples
like this it's really really useful, so open
up New Tone and drag the sample from there,
into there and it will drop straight in. Obviously
I've chopped it up a little bit so I've got
the section that I wanted, and then it comes
up with all these tones so like, all these
tones were all over the place. Like this.
But all you do is literally drag them all
up to "C", so you're in a flat note, like
that. And that's literally all I did to it
so I flattened it out like that, played with
the temp a bit so it just came through, you
know and it hit on beat. And like you've seen
I just played around with some chords and
stuff like that so I came in with these chords.
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some simple chords
and then I just duplicated those chords and
added some Gross Beat on there.
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okay, and then when you bring those original
chords back on top, gives it a nice bounce.
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and then just played this really simple melody
over the top of it.
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and then that's where we come in with the
drums, so really basic hi hats
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and then what I did to give it a bit of variation
and give it a bit of bounce, was layer those
up. So I came in with another hi hat
Just a little...
and then layered it up again
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then you bring everything back together.
see what I mean, gives it a nice little bounce.
came in with the snare
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layered up that snare.
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open hat
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808
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kick
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come back in with the melody
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and that was the whole beat
like there wasn't that many elements to it
so you know if you are looking in to trying
to improve your sound,
It's not about layering loads of stuff on
top of it, a mean that does help in certain
situations.
But when you got a hard, solid melody, the
drums - you know - will take care of themselves.
Okay so that was that beat, hope you guys
enjoyed it.
Again like it was a real simple beat, literaly
like two different chords in the chord progression,
really simple melody that I just played using
the midi keyboard, and then some real simple
drums.
And that was literally it, I think the main
thing is like, getting the drums sounding
hard, getting everything sitting in the right
place is the key.
You know it's just putting everything together
nicely is like the key to is, it doesn't have
to be over complicated.
But yeah hope you guys like that beat.
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That's all for today people, see you guys
in the next one.
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