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1. Introduction to the course: Hello, welcome to our new course on how to make low-fi
music from scratch. This is a comprehensive music production course
on no fine music. If you are in the intermediate
music producer or just starting out trying to figure out how lo-fi beats are made, then this is the
perfect course for you. You will learn different
techniques and music theory is to
create low-fi music. You will learn to
make lo-fi beats and clearly meant that goes into
making a loop by tract, you will also learn
how to mix and master lo-fi beats with
free plugins and stock plug-ins that
you get with your dog. Along with learning how
to make low-fi music, you will also learn how
to mix audio like EQ, reworked, delay,
facts, balancing, and all sorts of things needed to become a
low-fi music producer. So who is this course for? This course is for all the intermediate or
beginner music producer who is interested to learn
low-fi music production. After completing this course, you will be a confident
low-fi music producer, having knowledge
of code structure, melody, drum patterns,
sampling, and more. Join discourse and be a part of this fast-growing
music genre. I am your instructor, Martin
from slapback sound Academy. Thank you and wish
you all the best. See you in the course.
2. Overview of LOFI music: We all know what is
loved by me as again, what it sounds like
this for this course and for anyone
unfamiliar with it, I'm going to give
you a brief overview of what low-fi music is, where it all started, and how it has become one of the main students owners
have music nowadays. Lifo stands for low-fidelity, which is the executive
budget of gauge D. Lo-fi sound recordings
deliberately contain technical
imperfections such as this, torsion humming,
and rigor noise. Music is music that is often characterized as greedy
and grainy audio quality. With simple instrumentation,
It's slow tempo and simple drum patterns make it popular for studying
and focusing. The low-fi music genre is
emerging from the underground. It combines electronic music, down tempo music, chill wave, and in the hip hop elements to create a pleasant mixed up, relaxing background
beads for studying, working, reading, and
other activities. Most low-fi music
is non lyrical. It has slowly gaining popularity
as a separate genre of music that is different from the typical type of music
will use to listen to. Today, they'll find
music is mostly used as background music for
virtually any situation. A classroom, a workplace, in relaxing environment, or
just to fill the silence. Musicians who create low-fi music knowingly
and intentionally damage or degrade
the tape saturation to create this
particular effect. Why is low-fi music so popular? Low-fi music gained popularity because of its relaxing beats. People are attracted to this genre for many
different reasons. They are looking for music
that reflects how they feel, how they live, and how they
are experiencing their lives. With the gaining popularity
of low-fi music, musicians want to get into this type of music,
including me. As a musician, we
should see it as a form of music rather than
its Internet popularity. It requires the same
knowledge and skills, just like creating music
for another genre. But it has some different
characteristics. Sound like Lo-Fi, which I'm going to discuss
in this course.
3. Characteristics of LOFI music: Lo-fi main characteristics,
drum loops, similar to hip-hop, lo-fi uses large number from verbs
to form and read them. These can include both electronically produce
samples and live recordings. However, beat makers
prefer live elements because they are easier to manipulate with the
digital audio workshop. Beats are generally
knowing temple in-between 70 to 90 VPN z-scores. Z-scores progressions are
an important element in the majority of
Laplace songs for their relaxed and
thoughtful quality. Examples of reading,
base and farm, and piano are prevalent
in the genre. Some low-fi artist
sometimes incorporate horns and guitar as samples. Despite lo-fi being
typically instrumental, many loci tricks can feature vocal samples with many
drawings from enemy, the Japanese codon genre. The stretching of the vinyl is also very popular
with the genre and is used to enhance the warmth and nostalgia of analog recording. Chords and melodies are
very low fi track start off using samples of chords
and melodies from old funk. So jazz and 80s and 90s hip-hop, something's full bar chords are the way to go in disorder. Drumbeat, dusty,
and scratchy sound. What's Trump's are key
elements of this owner. Therefore, using old
samples is ideal. In most lovely songs, the kick and snare
drum or close together in usually the second
cake is the offbeat, giving an entertaining
reader baseline. Despite the baseline in low-fi music being
minimal and relaxed, it still has the power to hold captivating patterns and tools. Lo-fi artists usually
make the sound more interesting by adding
saturation or distortion. To incorporate your baseline, your chord progression, and
create a similar rhythm. Your course should only be used as a starting point
for your baseline. You can go beyond
this rhythm by moving around or even adding in
extra rhythmic alteration. Effects. Effects a capped with
classic Statics. As modern effects are
not usually used. Chimes for a beggar,
for Christian, and pretty much
anything else that is mellower sounding
can be added in. Voices are samples of
vocals from a speech, often from all movies, can also be included in your tracks to create
a certain vibe. Processing vocals
with EQ distortion and other effects can
create some unique cells. The good thing about this
genre is that you can be as creative as you want when
producing lo-fi tracks. So these are some of the
basic characteristics of low-fi music which we need to consider when creating
low-fi music.
4. How to make LO FI chords in the easiest way: In this lecture, I'm going to go through a quick and easy way to create a chord progression without knowing much
about music theory. Music theory, then
it's all good. But if you do not, then should not stop
you from making music. You'll learn eventually when you practice making beats every day, you don't need that much
music theory to make a song, but sound as good. Here we are in a new
FL Studio project. First, add a sampler, which is essentially an empty
track with nothing in it. Then go to the piano, roll off the sampler. Next click on the stamp tool, which is this little purple
icon in the top left. Click down and you will see a drop-down that contains all the different
chords and scales. As you can see, we have
a lot to pick from here, but for now, we'll
just click major. It's simple. Just pick any node from here. If we wanted to be
mesoscale, we have it here. One, the a sharp major
scale. We have it here. You can click any
note and it'll give you the mesoscale after
load for this lecture. Let's just pick
the D major scale. Now, let's spread the scale over four bars and then
copy and paste it. So we have the scaling
several octaves. Why don't we just move the D
major scale higher or lower? Copy and click D up here. Copy and click down there. You can do this across the whole piano roll
if you want to. But always make sure that the
bottom note of what you are pasting is on D. Do
not make them overlap, or this will be wrong. Now that's done.
Let's finally make our courts at an F L keys
within the same pattern. Now go to the piano
roll of f L keys. And you can see those are all the nodes that we have
added to our assembler. You now have the
D major scale to paint over all your f L keys. Notice, how do we make
our chords though? It's super easy.
You click a note, skip a white line,
click and note. Skip the next white line. Click Enter. Now we have a try. Let's listen to it. That doesn't really sound lo-fi jazzy, right? All you have to do is
continue the code. So go back to your
code, skip a line, and click the node, skip the
next line, and click a node. Now we have created
a ninth chord. This is really what you have to do to make a chord sound jazzy. This is the easiest way to
make it jazzy sounding chord. So wave continue on using that method I just
described and made this little riff
here. Quick note. Sometimes chord
progressions that you will make one sound, right? That's because some course
just don't sound as good when followed by
certain ones within a scale. But it's really not a big deal. All you have to do
is just keep messing around with the
chord progression until it sounds good to you. Now let's take a listen
to what I made here. That sounds not
that good enough. So what we can do to make
it little more interesting. First, we can learn this, copy the codes that we made, adding another arrow keys
and pays the courts, and then move them up
or down. An octave. Shortcut for this is to press the Control up arrow
or control down arrow. Now, it sounds more full. To avoid sounding more for, let's just lower one
on these a little bit. But both FOR keys on
a channel rag and then at just the volumes
to what sounds good. But we can do even better. A trick that I like to use is to go to the node
within your code, is really, I go to the
second from the top, just drag it over a little bit. And now, just like that, we have a little melody and variation playing within
the course that we made. You can do whatever you want. Maybe you can even add in some
nodes that are not within the cord that you made and just use the course
notes as a guide. This sounds to major and happy, and let's put some
sad sounding node to sound more like
a loaf I drank. I will show it in a new project. Add in the sampler again. And click this tab too. We're going to make these
chords in the minus q. We basically do the
exact same thing, except with big
the minor nature. It will yet. Let's pick
E minor this time. We do exactly what
we did before. Governor your piano
roll in the sampler. We then E minor scale
throughout all the octaves. Now, add in your
Advil keys and make a chord progression using the same technique
we did last time. Mess around until
it sounds good. Great. We have another
progression here. What if we really not
fighting with the scale we picked that we made this weekend simply
transpose the courts. This means we can just drag
this chord progression as much or as little as we want and disliked that
you are in a newer scale. This is a quick way
to change this kit and turn off your
entire regression. And that's a quick
guide on how to make lo-fi parts in the
simplest way possible. It might not be the
most detailed guide, but anyone can do it. It's just a quick way to dive in and get going
producing music. And the more you practice, the better you will
get at making songs.
5. 11 LOFI Chord Progression: Music is often based around very simple progressions that are rooted in jazz influence. Well, as owner adds up all
may not sound like jazz. It takes a lot of its structural elements
from the jazz music. The combination of
jazz harmony with the lo-fi beats would
always sound better. But there are
specific chords and chord progressions
that can really hook a listener in jazz
chord progressions and nodes missing complex. But we're here to make that
learning process simple. Jazz musicians use
different techniques, such as extended harmonies, seventh chords, and voices. After building a
strong foundation with chord progressions
and try it, the music becomes much
more approachable. I'm going to show you a few common chord progressions
that you need to know. Just for the demonstration, I'm adding a symbol of pride
round loop to accompany these chord progressions so that you get the idea of
what it sounds like. The number one
congregation is a sharp, C minor, D-sharp minor,
and D sharp manner. You can add a different
melody on top of these chord progressions
and it will sound nice. Number two, chord progression
is a sharp major seven, G minor nine, D-sharp major
seven, D-sharp minor seven. Progression number
three. G minor seven, B7 sharp five, e
minus E9, E9, and I. Progression number for
C-sharp, D-sharp minor seven. D sharp minus
seven. Minus seven. Progression number five,
She shipped minus seven. G-sharp minor seven,
F-sharp minor seven, and abstract minus seven. Progression number six,
D-sharp major seven. F7 says for G-sharp
major seven, C7, sus4. Progression number
seven, D minor nine. Z. Nine sass for ANN says four. G-sharp diminished seven. Progression number eight,
F sharp minor seven. B minus seven. Images
seven, G-sharp minor seven. Progression number nine. F sharp minor seven, D-sharp minor seven minus seven. And B major seven. Progression number ten.
After major seven. C major seven, F minor
seven. C major seven. Progression number
11. F minus seven. G7 sharp pipe. See, my nine. C9 sells for We desist 11 chord progressions. You can create a countless
amount of loop matrix. Just for this course, I have shown you 11 chord progressions, more congregations added
into your source folder, which you can download and
use in your own project.
6. A Guide to making LOFI music: A guide to making low-fi music. I'm not going to teach
you how to become a master in lo-fi production. The things I'm going
to teach you in this video are hopefully
going to be really easy. So the first step of making
a lo-fi is you need a doll, which means in digital
audio workstation. Now there are some
free doors online, but you can download
the free demo of FL Studio if you want
to follow along. Efforts to do is my main
down and my most preferred. Once you have got
your door open, we will start off with a tempo. Lo-fi is a slow genre, so I recommend choosing a
Tambo anywhere between 69 TPP. So I'm going with 19. Now let's get into the chords. I'm going to use the Split
File lab soft piano. It's completely free and
it's on their website. I will leave it in the
description below. Typically in low fi, seven codes are used, sometimes known
as the JS Course. Seven chord is basically just a combination of a
triad and an interval of S7. You don't need to know
music theory for this. I will teach you
how to make them. It's actually pretty
easy in FL Studio. So the way you do
it in FL Studio is it click this piano
roll Options, drop-down, the go-to helpers,
scale highlighting, and then you have
all these options. We're just going to go with major and you click
the drop-down again, helpers and select C. We'll
just start in C major. And once you have
selected that option, you will then see the
nodes in the piano roll. I'll put black and
white. For now. We're just going to
use the white notes. So we're going to place a node here and you see
that white spot. Just skip it. We will face
one in the other one. Then we skip the next one. Place, another,
skip the next one. Place an adder, and
that's the seven chord. It's very easy. Then
use displaced nodes in the other white spot next to it and hopefully just get a
nice chord progression. Now we will just play it
and see how it sounds. I think that sounds good. All you want to do now is drag your pattern into your playlist and you have got
your colleagues. Now we need bass adding
base to your chords. It's actually very easy for is, we're going to choose a base. Now. What you can do is
go to the left-hand side, select bags,
instruments, and base, and then use the caustic base. The caustic base is actually
really nice for low fi. But for me, I'm going to
use a different base. I'm going to use
semantics eternity, which is actually a
really good sample bag. It's free and I will
leave the link to it. We're just going to choose
the first bass guitar. Now, we need to
work on the nodes. The nodes for the base
are actually really easy. All you have to do is go
back to your piano chords. Select all of the bottom nodes. The root nodes, copy
them over to your base. And that's pretty much it. Obviously, you can make
your base complex. But just for this tutorial, we are going to
make it very simple and use the root nodes of
the chord progression. Now you might be
able to care that these two nodes are
actually overlapping. It's very easy to fix that. All you want to do
is select your base, click on this, and then
you track these four down. And you drag this one up. And now you see when I press
this note on the piano, it does not sustain. It will only last for how long? I'm actually pressing
to note down. Once we have got that down, we can just go
straight into drums. Drums are not actually
that hard to make. If you want to. You
can use a drum loop. There are some drum loops
and they assemble back. Of semantics lo-fi toolkit, it's free and I will also leave it in the
description below. But I'm not going
to use any loops. And just going to make
some drums by myself. I'm going to be using
some drums from this Lo-Fi drums volume
one sample pack, which is all the free, will, just choose a few nice drums. And I'm going to
choose some drums from the Liquify tool kits
by semantics as well. Now once you have
got all your drums, don't make it too complex. It's low-fi, so you want
it to be pretty simple. I'll just make some prompts
that I think sounds okay. Now we've got the drums. We'll just see how
everything sounds together. It could be better,
but it will do. For now. We'll go
into the melody. Now. When I was
making my melody, all I did was I just played some nodes on my piano until
it sounded really good. You don't need a midi
keyboard to make a melody. You can use the drop-down. Go to Helpers, select the
key that your chords are in, and then just place nodes in the whitespaces until
you get something. That sounds nice. I'll show you what I've got. I think it sounds okay
now we have pretty much got all of the elements
for the lo-fi sound, but we're just
missing one thing, and that's the imperfections. Now, by imperfections, I
mean the vinyl crackle and electronic noise that you usually hear in
lo-fi soundtracks. This effect is to
make it sound like being played out of except
layer or a vinyl clear. Now I'm going to
use this plug-in called semantics or
region, which is free. I will leave a link in the
description. In this login. You can choose from
many different presets. And it already has a built-in
preset called lo-fi. It sounds okay, but personally, I'm just going to tweak
it a bit to my liking. And now we will just
have to listen to it. I think that sounds pretty good. Now we will just bring
all the pieces back together and there's our lo-fi. Now at this point,
you can just leave it there or you can add
some extra stuff. If you want a second melody, maybe a chord change,
anything like that. You can probably make
a better song than me. But like I said, this is just meant to be simple. It's just to get you started. Hi, production. Anyway, that's my tutorial. If you have any question, just asked me below, go check all the links in the description which
I've mentioned before. Okay, that's all
for this section. And now let's move
on to the next one. Thank you.
7. How to Make Lofi in the EASIEST Way Possible: In this tutorial, I'm
about to show you how to make lo-fi in the
easiest way possible. We will talk about
gourds, beats, baseline, and we will add in a little flair to make
it kind of interesting. All of this will be done
without any music theory, and I promise it will
sound this and probably, and this is how to make lo-fi in the simplest
way possible. The very first thing
that I always do when I make lo-fi is made a
chord progression. And in order to do that in
the easiest way possible, go to the plus
sign and hit None. Then you will have
a sampler here. Going to the piano
roll of the center. Then you will find this
purple thing here. Click that, and you
will find scales. You're just going
to pick up maser. Now. You have the choice
to pick any scale that you want essentially
interests by clicking one of these
nodes right here. So for example, let's
click B. Look at that. Now we have the beam mesoscale, drag it all the way out, and then just copy and paste it. Make sure the bottom node is B. And there you go. Duties for any node. I just picked B
for this tutorial. Now, if we go back
to our channel rank, we see we have this
use green block here. That's exactly what we want. Go and add into fn keys. Now go to the piano roll. Now we have all the
nodes in the queue. We could now start making
chords by going into these wide goes nodes and
just clicking randomly. We're going to just go to
any of these nodes in here. Let's just start here. Now, how do we make a call without knowing
any music theory? Skip one of these white lines
and go to the next one. Skipping white line,
and go to the next one. Skip your white line,
go to the next one. Let's see how that
sounds. That sounds good. I'm going to drop it down, so we end up in
the higher nodes. We're going to use
these notes later on. Before we continue further. Keep the BPM around 18. Just figured bass note. Just keep the white line.
Go to the next one. It's kinda white line, go
to the next one, and so on. Now I am going to
make the congregation and please follow along with me. But I hope that it sounds good. I'm going to try to
make something right now and we finally have
our chord progression. Let's see what it sounds like. You see how it sounds jazzy. And also the last bar here, I just resolve back to the first card that
we started with. Who give it some kind
of likers evolution. Now why do we could do, is slide these nodes
around if we wanted to give a little bit of like a melody plane within
the course themselves. And I will show you
what that sounds like. It will just give it a
little more interesting vibe rather than just
playing these courts. One little trick
to make this more interesting and more realistic. Hello, all of your
chord progressions. Go to the drop-down, go to Tools, and then you
will find strummed here. What that does is it just a time for each
node in the car. And you could adjust
this trend of it. If I slide it over, the nodes, get
more out of place. And you could also
adjust the velocity to no person or human plays at the same velocity for each key. I think that sounds really good. But how can we make this
sound even more lo-fi? Assign your keys to a mixture. We have it on ten,
go to the drop-down. The first thing I want to do is add a little bit of pre-work. This is the Italian verb, and this is a way
better than what FL Studio gives you. Next. We're going to insert our eyes. This is a FreeBSD. I will put a link
in the description. It is probably the best thing you could ever
have. Follow, fine. It's almost necessary if you are going to go with those samples. I'm going to move
these knockdown. See how it made it
all ingredients. We went sustained in 60. And then you are going to
adjust this word that here. Let's see what that sounds like. I will set it to 20%. One thing I sometimes do with this is you could clone this. Then copy and paste, and then switch these two rows. This is going to act like a pen. It will give a little bit of
effect in the background. I'm going to move this over
to a different mixes channel now because I wanted just to volume separately
from the main panel. So we're going to do the exact same thing at either the vinyl and
add some reverb. We're going to adjust
the volume a little bit. This gives it a little
bit of atmosphere kinda. It just makes it a fuller sound. So we're done. We'd have a chord and it was super easy, right? So the next thing we
will add is to beat. Download the sample folder. I'll put a link also in the
description and it is free. Let's start with a snare first. We're going to start on the
first block in this section. They're always here
in every single loci so you can adjust around with what he wanted to be more prominent in
the mixer section. Something else you could
do is adjust the velocity. So each one gives it a
little bit of bounce. We will do the exact same
thing for the high hats, but we'll do it every two. I also added in an open
hi-hat before the snares, just to give you a
little bit of variation. And editing you can do
is to add a little bit of bounce and make
it sound more lo-fi. Go to your high hats. Click this little
wrench tool here. Then he will see this
thing called shift. This actually saves the
nodes slightly to the right. It gives a little bit of like offbeat kind of
jumped to the whole. Another little tip here is if you want to add a
little bit of bounds, you can go to these sections
here in your highest, scroll it over to the
middle of the box here. It gives you a little
bit of bounce. Now, where the main bounds comes from in the
song is to keep. You could do the same bounce
technique that we did with heads and just
scroll this over. Alright, and mess around
with this quite a bit. And here's our B. Now we want to add a malady, so we're going to add
another field keys. We're going to go into
that and look at this. We already have our
gross notes like before. So what you could do here is just solo over the
course that happening. If you have no music theory, you just put nodes randomly
here and hope it sounds good. And honestly, if you're going to stick to that host nodes, you are probably
going to be fine. You just have to have the nice musical sense
that goes with it. I'm going to try to
mess around in here and I'm going to see if I could find some of the way to solo over the keys in a
way that sounds good. Now, it's time for
the waistline. We're going to add
another sampler. I will use conduct Phi, but you can use anything. I'm sure there are a
lot of VST plugins out there that sounds
better than contact. All you have to do is go to
the bass note of your board. Just put a bass
note where that is. And I'm going to show you
what that looks like. To do that we're going to
delete the sampler channel and go to the piano
roll of your base. And we see the
chords right here. You will see if
this sounds good. That sounds jazzy, and that's literally
all you have to do. You don't have to know
anything about creating baseline or music or
anything like that. Just with the bass note at the
bottom node of your chord, because that is the bass note and it's going to sound good. One small thing that we
could add is a horn. I like using horns. I am going to use contact fight. We're just going to inverse what do we did
with the baseline? Just going to put something at the top node of each chord. Now, you will notice
here the top node is the same as the
last one here. But what I want to do is I want to add a little
bit of differentiation. So you could really put it on any node that you want
to within the court. You could really do this with any instrument
that you wanted to. It doesn't have to be a hard. One little trick that I do here, I'm going to do is
shorten all these nodes. I'm going to put this in
one of our channel ranks. Now, I'm going to add eyes
or the vinyl as an effect. I'm going to add a little lever. At the same time. I'm going
to add a delay stereo effect. Now after all of this
to do the mastering, all you have to do is go to your drop-down and
your master channel. Now go to maximise, then select Presets,
fancy law, fine. Now at this, according
to what you like, we're going to go into the
controller here of Maximus and then just drop
this a little bit. And then just adjust it until
you think it sounds good. I wanted to make this
simplest way possible. And that's why I put it in
one single channel wreck. If we want to separate each
individual, one of these, all you have to do
is right-click cut, go to the next pattern, and then paste it, then
that would be your colon. Do the same thing for
every single instrument. That way you could
separate things. If you want something,
come into liters. And now we have
our B, the court, the pads, the solo, the baseline, and
finally the sixth form. So now that I have everything separated and I kind of just
compose it all together. One final thing that you could add is some
data-driven b's here. This is going to
elevate the whole beat. I found a sample here that has no key because they're
already put the kick in. And then we are going to
see what it sounds like. It just adds a lot more
texture and depth. I hope that you learn something. Honestly, the
courts are probably the hardest part of all of this. I think it's so simple. If he uses use that blank
channel rag technique, then you use the stamp tool. Thank you for learning
this section. Now let's move on to
the next section.
8. 5 tips to make LO FI beats: In this lecture, I'm going to
show you five ways to make your beads sound modulo
phi N nostalgic. These techniques will
hopefully help you achieve that emotional lo-fi flare found in down tempo music and
lo-fi hip hop beats. So the first step is
based on tape simulation. One of the reasons why music is such an interesting genre
to produce his dad, you are purposefully adding or retaining sonic
imperfections that produces decades
ago would have been trying to remove from
their recordings. These imperfections sets as
Steve Fletcher detuning and other audio artifacts can really add a vintage nostalgic
elements to your drugs. We all love free plugin. So I have gotten you do free tapes emulation
plugins to show you. The first one is taped
case2 from column audio. This is an incredibly
big interframe. The plug-in for
adding some paint is warmed and character to a sound. As you can see, we have
saturation, Lopez, noise, wow, and floods or controls, as well as an oversampling
options up here. We also have Chao tape, which is much more
detailed and allows you to add tape
dig radiation with incredible precision event
down to the thickness and angle of the
simulated tape machine. The second low fi
tactic is making chords and jazzy and more
interesting to the listener. In low-fi music,
especially lo-fi hip hop, sampling is incredibly common, where producers will
use jazz soul of blue samples to add
a retro vibe to attract their scored samples, such as piano or keys, are particularly good
for adding raw emotions. But if you don't want
to sample and prefer to use midi sequence, try
recreating unique. There's chords of the sixties
and seventies, for example. Listen to the difference
between these two sequences. So this sequence sounds a bit to standard and robotic
evoke much emotion. Whereas if we
compare it to this, in my opinion, this has a much more low fight
jazz kind of doll. I think with some
tape simulation, it sound much better in a
little 5-bit scalar to buy. Plug-in Boutique is also an insanely helpful plugin for discovering and experimenting
with various means, scales, and chord progressions. If you have no knowledge
of music theory. The second chord
sequence I showed you is a variation
from scalar do. And I use this
thing all the time. For instance, cord and
melodic inspiration. Lo-fi tip number three is
to make use of sound beds. In my opinion, adding a sound
bed to a lo-fi drag can add so much atmosphere and make the trek a lot more
immersive for the listener. Common examples would
be vinyl crackle, rain falling on a window, city ambience, coffee shop, ambient forest sounds and so on. How do you actually
find these sounds? Usually you can find ambient
sound in videos on YouTube, which you can always
download an experimental. But you need to be careful if you want to release
it right commercially. And it has a sound bad
taken from YouTube, as it is probably copyrighted. They avoid this. There are some really cheap
royalty free sample bags out there that includes hundreds of organic ambient
sounds and textures. I will leave a link to some of my favorites in the description. Or if you have got the
recording equipment, you can even go out and
record these sounds yourself. Tip number four is to use
it from Boston to create. Thus the natural
sounding drum loops. Group processing on drums can be really important as doing this not only contributes to this aesthetic and
character of the drums, but it really helps to glue the drums together to create
a more cohesive sound. Some examples of low
fi drum bass effects are low pass filter, saturation, compression,
transient zippers, and even some light
high-energy verb. So here's a basic drum
loop with no effects. Here's that same loop
with low-pass filter, saturation and some compression. Hopefully you can hear it
sounds a lot more cohesive and the effects are giving it that does the emotional low fi. This final technique
is one that I use a lot to add a bit more
body and want to repeat. But it does not apply to
every lo-fi trach out there. Sometimes I find
adding his soft low, mid-range pad behind
the main piano helps to add a lot of
nostalgia and emotion. So we can just
copy this code and you can use any sense for this. But the diva is
particularly good as it has tons of smooth been tastes bad presets
to choose from. And here is the same beaten
with a bed behind the piano. Okay, that was my
top five techniques for making lo-fi beats. I hope you got some value out of this video. Thank you so much.
9. Outro: I want to thank you for
completing this course, and I wish you to take
your music carrier father. Of course, this course
is not everything, but I'm sure that it has
helped you somewhere. It was such a great experience
making this course for you all and sharing that
knowledge with everyone, promised to make
some more courses on music and share my knowledge
as much as possible. I advise everybody
to keep learning music production and have
a beautiful carrier. Learn music theory as much as possible and mastering
your instruments. Thank you. Have a good day.
SlapBack Sound, Online Music Academy
